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Now available in Jeff Fort's impeccable translation, 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, Poetics of History redefines both poetics and history even as it offers a new way of understanding the French reception of Heidegger.--Andrew Parker, Rutgers University

Now available in Jeff Fort's impeccable translation, 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, Poetics of History redefines both poetics and history even as it offers a new way of understanding the French reception of Heidegger.--Andrew Parker, Rutgers University

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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.

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