Life Death by Jacques Derrida (English) Hardcover Book

Description: Life Death by Jacques Derrida, Pascale-Anne Brault, Peggy Kamuf, Michael Naas The seventh in our series of Derridas seminars, Life Death provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life and death—now in paperback. One of Jacques Derridas 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." FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography 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 Derridas 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. 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 (Oedipuss 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: Freuds Leg(acies) Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, Prosthesis Fourteenth Session: Tightenings Index of Proper Names Review "This is a splendid translation of one of Derridas most challenging seminars, one that relates, in unprecedented ways, the vocabulary and concepts of historical and contemporary biology and genetics with selected and relevant works of Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Freud."--Dawne McCance, author of The Reproduction of Life Death: Derridas La Vie la Mort "Derridas 1975-76 seminar, Life Death, is surely one of his greatest achievements. It begins with a deconstructive reading of Francois Jacobs Logic of the Living, advancing to a critique of scientific models in general. It then takes up Nietzsches notions of life and the living in terms of both biography and biology. Finally, it reads Freuds Beyond the Pleasure Principle in an exciting and challenging way. The translation by Pascale-Anne Brault and Michael Naas is reliable and eminently readable."--David Farrell Krell, author of The Sea: A Philosophical Encounter Review Quote "Translated . . . with unparalleled grace and rigor." Details ISBN022669951X Author Michael Naas Pages 328 Year 2020 Translator Pascale-Anne Brault ISBN-10 022669951X ISBN-13 9780226699516 Format Hardcover Imprint University of Chicago Press Place of Publication Chicago, IL Country of Publication United States Edited by Peggy Kamuf DEWEY 194 Language English NZ Release Date 2020-09-22 US Release Date 2020-09-22 Publication Date 2020-09-22 UK Release Date 2020-09-22 Publisher The University of Chicago Press Series Seminars of Jacques Derrida Audience General AU Release Date 2020-09-21 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:136545035;

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