Poetics of History: Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Published by Fordham University Press 2019

Poetics of History

Rousseau and the Theater of Originary Mimesis

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe
Translated by: Jeff Fort

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823282364

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Poetics of History places Rousseau at the origin of modern speculative philosophy by showing that his thinking on the theater, despite its dependence on a false and conventional reading of Aristotle, nonetheless articulates a radical thinking of originary mimesis, and, well before Hegel, an understanding of catharsis as Aufhebung.

The book presents a new and surprising philosophical reading of Rousseau’s thinking on theater and mimesis.

Author / Editor information

Lacoue-Labarthe Philippe :

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His many books include Poetry as Experience; Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics; and, with Jean-Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism.Fort Jeff :

Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, and the translator of more than a dozen books, by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others.Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (Author)
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe was Professor of Philosophy at the Universite Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His many books include Poetry as Experience; Typography: Mimesis, Philosophy, Politics; and, with Jean-Luc Nancy, The Literary Absolute: The Theory of Literature in German Romanticism.

Jeff Fort (Translator)
Jeff Fort is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Davis, and the translator of more than a dozen books, by Jean Genet, Jacques Derrida, Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, and others.

Reviews

Andrew Parker, Rutgers University:
“Now available in Jeff Fort’s impeccable translation, The Poetics of History is the culmination of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe’s lifetime work on the question of mimesis in Rousseau—a question of crucial importance that had never before been posed or answered in this form. Identifying in Rousseau an onto-technology so radical that it challenges his supposed anti-theatricality, The Poetics of History redefines both poetics and history even as it offers a new way of understanding the French reception of Heidegger.”

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Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 176
Keywords: Aristotle; Poetics; Aufhebung; catharsis; dialectics; mimesis; purgation; Rousseau; theater

eBook

Published: February 5, 2019
ISBN: 9780823282364