Reproduction of Life Death - Derrida''s La Vie La Mort

Based on archival translations of Derrida's as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance's The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida's engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

List of contents

Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | ix

Introduction | 1

1. Double Helix | 9

2. Schools of Life | 33

3. Institutions of the "Yes" | 51

4. Speaking into a Dead Man's Ear | 74

5. Life Worth More Than Life | 97

6. The Movement of a Pas | 125

7. Rhythmos | 147

Acknowledgments | 151

Notes | 153

Works Cited | 177

Index | 187

About the author

Dawne McCance

Summary

Based on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Product details

• Authors: Dawne McCance
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2019
• EAN: 9780823283910
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-8391-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Literaturtheorie, Wissenschaft, Technologie und Gesellschaft, Moderne Philosophie: nach 1800