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Based on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | ix
Introduction | 1
1. Double Helix | 9
2. Schools of Life | 33
3. Institutions of the “Yes” | 51
4. Speaking into a Dead Man’s Ear | 74
5. Life Worth More Than Life | 97
6. The Movement of a Pas | 125
7. Rhythmos | 147
Acknowledgments | 151
Notes | 153
Works Cited | 177
Index | 187

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 02/07/2019
      ISBN13: 9780823283903, 978-0823283903
      ISBN10: 0823283909
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Based on archival translations of Derrida’s as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance’s The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida’s engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.

      Table of Contents

      Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida | ix
      Introduction | 1
      1. Double Helix | 9
      2. Schools of Life | 33
      3. Institutions of the “Yes” | 51
      4. Speaking into a Dead Man’s Ear | 74
      5. Life Worth More Than Life | 97
      6. The Movement of a Pas | 125
      7. Rhythmos | 147
      Acknowledgments | 151
      Notes | 153
      Works Cited | 177
      Index | 187

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