Life Death

AvJacques Derrida,Pascale-Anne Brault

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback.One of Jacques Derrida’s most provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted dichotomy of Western thought: life and death. In rethinking the relationship between life and death, Derrida undertakes a multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of topics across philosophy, linguistics, and the life sciences. Derrida gave this seminar over fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the École normale supérieure in Paris to prepare students for the agrégation, a notoriously competitive exam. The theme for the exam that year was “Life and Death,” but Derrida made a critical modification to the title by dropping the coordinating conjunction. The resulting title of Life Death poses a philosophical question about the close relationship between life and death. Through close readings of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger, French geneticist François Jacob, and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem, Derrida argues that death must be considered neither as the opposite of life nor as the truth or fulfillment of it, but rather as that which both limits life and makes it possible. Derrida thus not only questions traditional understandings of the relationship between life and death but also ultimately develops a new way of thinking about what he calls “life death.”

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-06-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:426 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Antal sidor:328
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226826448
Översättare:Brault, Pascale-Anne, Naas, Michael

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Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. Pascale-Anne Brault is professor of French at DePaul University and is the translator of several books by Derrida. Peggy Kamuf is professor emerita of French and Italian and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She has written, edited, or translated many books, by Derrida and others, and is coeditor of the series of Derrida’s seminars at the University of Chicago Press. Michael Naas is professor of philosophy at DePaul University and is the author of several books, most recently Plato and the Invention of Life.

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"In these exceptionally complex, wide-ranging lectures written for a 1975–76 course, Derrida takes very seriously Nietzsche's warning to 'beware . . . saying that death is opposed to life' . . . . Essential."

Innehållsförteckning

Foreword to the English EditionGeneral Introduction to the French EditionEditorial NoteTranslators’ NoteFirst Session: ProgramsSecond 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 LifeFifth Session: The IndefatigableSixth Session: The “Limping” Model: The Story of the ColossusSeventh SessionEighth Session: Cause (“Nietzsche”)Ninth Session: Of InterpretationTenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor—and the Contagion of the Proper NameEleventh Session: The Escalade—of the Devil in PersonTwelfth Session: Freud’s Leg(acies)Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, ProsthesisFourteenth Session: TighteningsIndex of Proper Names

Jacques Derrida

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