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Life Death
Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida
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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 fulfilment 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.”
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Life Death by Jacques Derrida is a profound work that delves into complex themes, exploring the connections between biology, genetics, and philosophy through the lens of thinkers like Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Freud. The translation is praised for its clarity and faithfulness, making Derrida's intricate analysis accessible. The seminar offers a deconstructive critique of scientific models and revisits Nietzsche's and Freud's ideas on life, presenting them in novel and thought-provoking ways.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780226699516
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 22 September 2020
Country: United States
Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Contributors:
- Edited by Peggy Kamuf
- Edited by Pascale-Anne Brault
- Translated by Pascale-Anne Brault
- Translated by Michael Naas
- Edited by Pascale-Anne Brault
- Edited by Peggy Kamuf
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 229.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 328
About the Author
Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes 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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