If philosophy has to be engaged today, he says, it has in the first place the task to philosophize.
Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Lacoue-Labarthe and Nancy focus on the question of literature realising and fulfilling itself as a work, an œuvre as it is called in the French language: the writer produces himself in the literary work he writes so that he, as the subject, the support of this work, becomes himself an œuvre, a self-productive individual.