The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La Vie La Mort - Couverture souple

McCance, Dawne

 
9780823283903: The Reproduction of Life Death: Derrida's La Vie La Mort
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ISBN 10 : 0823283909 ISBN 13 : 9780823283903
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2019

Synopsis

During the 1975-76 academic year, Jacques Derrida delivered a seminar, La vie la mort (Life Death), at the École normale supérieure, in Paris. Based on archival translations of this untapped but soon-to-be-published seminar, The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida's engagement with molecular biology and genetics, particularly the work of the biologist François Jacob.

Structured as an itinerary of "three rings," each departing from and coming back to Nietzsche, Derrida's seminar ties Jacob's logocentric account of reproduction to the reproductive program of teaching that characterizes the academic institution, challenging this mode of teaching as auto-reproduction along with the concept of "academic freedom" on which it is based. McCance also brings Derrida's critique of Jacob's theory of auto-reproduction together with his reading of reproductivity, the tendency to repeat-reproduce, that is theorized and enacted in Freud's Beyond the Pleasure Principle. The book further shows how Derrida's account of life death relates to his writings on autobiography and the signature and to such later concerns as the question of the animal.

McCance brings extensive archival research together with a deep knowledge of Derrida's work a background in genetics to offer a fascinating new account of an encounter between philosophy and the hard sciences that will be of interest to theorists in a wide range of disciplines concerned with the question of life.

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À propos de l'auteur

Dawne McCance is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba. Her books include Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction and Derrida On Religion.

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Éditeur
Fordham University Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0823283909
ISBN 13 
9780823283903
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0823283917 ISBN 13 :  9780823283910
Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2019
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