Poetry as Experience (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics Series)
Lacoue-Labarthe's Poetry as Experience addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. In his analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan's poetry, Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action—a principle that turned, most violently during the twentieth century, into a figure not only of domination but of the extermination of everything other than itself. This thoroughly...
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An analysis of the historical position of Paul Celan’s poetry, this book addresses the question of a lyric language that would not be the expression of subjectivity. Lacoue-Labarthe defines the subject as the principle that founds, organizes, and secures both cognition and action, a figure not only of domination but of the extermination of everything other than itself.
A Note on CitationPt. ITwo Poems1Pt. IIRemembering Dates391Catastrophe412Prayer713Sublime874Hagiography925The Power of Naming956Pain987Ecstasy1028Vertigo1049Blindness10610Lied10711Sky11112The Unforgivable122Notes127Works Cited141
