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The book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations | ix
Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction | 1
1 From Grammatology to Life Death | 11
2 Interrogating the Death Drive | 35
3 Survival as Autoimmunity | 68
4 Mortality and Normativity | 97
5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty | 127
Acknowledgments | 155
Notes | 157
Bibliography | 185
Index | 195

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      Publisher: ME - Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 1/4/2022 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780823298730, 978-0823298730
      ISBN10: 0823298736
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The book argues for deconstruction’s ongoing relevance, showing how Jacques Derrida’s deep engagement with Freud across the full trajectory of his work, in particular his engagement with Freud’s notion of life and death drives, supplies the key way into Derrida’s recasting of life as life death and, in turn, survival.

      Table of Contents

      List of Abbreviations | ix
      Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction | 1
      1 From Grammatology to Life Death | 11
      2 Interrogating the Death Drive | 35
      3 Survival as Autoimmunity | 68
      4 Mortality and Normativity | 97
      5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty | 127
      Acknowledgments | 155
      Notes | 157
      Bibliography | 185
      Index | 195

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