Life death
By: Jacques Derrida ; edited by Pascale-Anne Brault and Peggy Kamuf ; translated by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas
Contributors: Brault, Pascale-Anne, editor, translator; Kamuf, Peggy, editor; Naas, Michael, translator
Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780226701141
Subjects: Life; Death; Mort; Deaths; Philosophy; General; Movements; Deconstruction
Work titles: Vie la mort
Description: "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 masterful 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"--
Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Intro; title: Contents; title: Foreword to the English Edition; title: General Introduction to the French Edition; title: Editorial Note; title: Translators' Note; title: First Session: Programs; title: Second Session: Logic of the Living (She the Living); title: Third Session: Transition (Oedipus's Faux Pas); title: Fourth Session: The Logic of the Supplement: The Supplement of the Other, of Death, of Meaning, of Life; title: Fifth Session: The Indefatigable; title: Sixth Session: The "Limping" Model: The Story of the Colossus; title: Seventh Session; title: Eighth Session: Cause ("Nietzsche"); title: Ninth Session: Of Interpretation; title: Tenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor; title: and the Contagion of the Proper Name; title: Eleventh Session: The Escalade; title: of the Devil in Person; title: Twelfth Session: Freud's Leg(acies); title: Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, Prosthesis; title: Fourteenth Session: Tightenings; title: Index of Proper Names