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 universal, abstract, and finally
suicidal subject eradicates all experience, save the singularity of
this experience of voiding. But what is left, as Paul Celan
insisted, is a remainder to the lyric voice alone: "Singbarer
Rest."
Lacoue-Labarthe's detailed analyses of two decisive poems by Celan,
"Tubingen, Janner" and "Todtnauberg"--the one a response to
Holderlin, the other to Heidegger--and his sustained reading of
"The Meridian" present Celan's verse of singularity as the movement
at and beyond the border of generalizable experience, i.e., as an
"experience," a traversing of a dangerous field, in which language
no longer dominates anything, but rather commemorates the voiding
of concepts and the collapse of the constitutive powers of the
subject. For Lacoue-Labarthe, poetry after the Shoah, the poetry of
bared singularity, is no longer a poetry that would correspond to
the "concept" of the subject--or, for that matter, to the concept
of poetry--but is rather the language of the "decept." Only by
being "disappointed" of the heroic language of idealistic poetry,
and of the mytho-ontological tendencies of philosophy, can Celan's
poetry keep open the possibility of another history, another
future.
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