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The Reproduction of Life Death - Derrida's La vie la mort (Hardcover)
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The Reproduction of Life Death - Derrida's La vie la mort (Hardcover)
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During the 1975-76 academic year, Jacques Derrida delivered a
seminar, La vie la mort (Life Death), at the Ecole normale
superieure, 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 Francois 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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