Life death / Jacques Derrida ; edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf ; translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas

Author: Derrida, Jacques
Uniform Title: Vie la mort. English (Brault and Naas). 2020
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2020.
Copyright Date: ©2020
Physical Description: xx, 302 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators: Brault, Pascale-Anne, Kamuf, Peggy, 1947-, and Naas, Michael

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Series

Seminars of Jacques Derrida

Contents

First session: Programs -- Second session: Logic of the living (She the Living) -- Third session: Transition (Oedipus's Faux Pas) -- Fourth session: The logic of the supplement: the supplement of the other, of death, of meaning, of life -- Fifth session: The indefatigable -- Sixth session: The "limping" model: the story of the Colossus -- Seventh session: [no title] -- Eighth Session: Cause ("Nietzsche") -- Ninth session: Of interpretation -- Tenth session: Thinking the division of labor-and the contagion of the proper name -- Eleventh session: The escalade-of the devil in person -- Twelfth session: Freud's leg(acies) -- Thirteenth session: Sidestep detour: thesis, hypothesis, prosthesis -- Fourteenth session: Tightenings.

Summary

"In these seminar sessions, philosopher Jacques Derrida deconstructs perhaps the oldest dichotomy of all-life and death-giving him the opportunity to delve into a broad range of topics, from the work of French geneticist FrancÌʹois Jacob and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem to Freudian psychoanalysis and modern German philosophy, especially Nietzsche and Heidegger. Throughout, Derrida's attention is, as ever, on language, especially when it comes to discourses (such as scientific ones) that he understands to be suppressing the inherent instability of linguistic signs and the ambiguities behind even the most innocuous of terms. Appearing for the first time in English in a translation by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas, these seminars from 1975-1976 represent a turning point in Derrida's thought, one that helps us better understand the influential work he would go on to produce in the decades to come"--

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ISBN

9780226699516 hardcover
022669951X hardcover
9780226701141 electronic book

Note

Translated from the French.

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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