Life death
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Life death
(The seminars of Jacques Derrida / edited by Geoffrey Bennington & Peggy Kamuf)
University of Chicago Press, 2020
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La vie la mort : séminaire (1975-1976)
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Description and Table of Contents
Description
One of Jacques Derrida's richest and most provocative works, Life Death challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the relationship between life and death, undertaking multidisciplinary analyses of a range of topics, including philosophy, linguistics, and the life sciences. In seeking to understand the relationship between life and death, he engages in close readings of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger, French geneticist Francois Jacob, and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem.
Derrida gave his "Life Death" seminar over fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the Ecole normale superieure in Paris as part of the preparation for students studying for the agregation, a notoriously competitive qualifying 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. 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. Through these captivating sessions, 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."
Table of Contents
Foreword to the English Edition
General Introduction to the French Edition
Editorial Note
Translators' Note
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
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
Index of Proper Names
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