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The Reproduction of Life Death - Derrida's La vie la mort (Paperback)
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The Reproduction of Life Death - Derrida's La vie la mort (Paperback)
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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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