Philosophy is the contemplation of the fundamental nature of knowledge,
morality, existence, and the universe as a whole. You may wonder why you would
want to get involved with philosophy. Simply put, it's not as hard as you may think, and you are
probably interested in it even if you have not realized.
The trick is to find books that are written for
general readers and not for people with specific knowledge. For example, you
probably wouldn't want to get a college textbook for an advanced class, as such
a book would assume that you have already read and studied certain works.
Instead you will want to look for an "introduction to philosophy"
book or just look for a book with pure philosophy, such as those written by
philosophers such as Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe.
Though you may wonder if philosophy will interest
you, if you think about it you probably already are interested in it. This is
because philosophy addresses those questions about which we all wonder. For
example, most of us have asked, "what is the meaning of life?" Most
of us have asked, "what happens when we die?" Most of us have asked,
"can we really know anything?" Philosophy simply consists of asking
and attempting to answer questions such as those.
Lacoue-Labarthe was influenced by and wrote
extensively on Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, German
Romanticism, Paul Celan, and Gérard Granel. He also translated works by
Heidegger, Celan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Hölderlin, and Walter Benjamin
into French.
Lacoue-Labarthe was a member and president of the
Collège international de philosophie.
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