The seventh in our series of Derrida's seminars, Life Death
provides interdisciplinary reflections on the relationship of life
and death—now in paperback. One of Jacques Derrida’s most
provocative works, Life Death deconstructs a deeply rooted
dichotomy of Western thought: life and death. In rethinking the
relationship between life and death, Derrida undertakes a
multi-disciplinary analysis of a range of topics across philosophy,
linguistics, and the life sciences. Derrida gave this seminar over
fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the École normale
supérieure in Paris to prepare students for the agrégation, a
notoriously competitive exam. The theme for the exam that year was
“Life and Death,†but Derrida made a critical modification to
the title by dropping the coordinating conjunction. The resulting
title of Life Death poses a philosophical question about the close
relationship between life and death. Through close readings
of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and
Heidegger, French geneticist François Jacob, and epistemologist
Georges Canguilhem, Derrida argues that death must be considered
neither as the opposite of life nor as the truth or fulfillment of
it, but rather as that which both limits life and makes it
possible. Derrida thus not only questions traditional
understandings of the relationship between life and death but also
ultimately develops a new way of thinking about what he calls
“life death.â€
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