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Life Death : (Seminars Of Jacques Derrida Series) by Jacques Derrida (editor); Pascale-Anne Brault (editor); Peggy Kamuf (editor); Pascale-Anne Brault (editor); Michael Naas (editor) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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One of Jacques Derrida’s richest and most provocative works, __Life Death__ challenges and deconstructs one of the most deeply rooted dichotomies of Western thought: life and death. Here Derrida rethinks the traditional philosophical understanding of the relationship between life and death, undertaking multidisciplinary analyses of a range of topics, including philosophy, linguistics, and the life sciences. In seeking to understand the relationship between life and death, he engages in close readings of Freudian psychoanalysis, the philosophy of Nietzsche and Heidegger, French geneticist François Jacob, and epistemologist Georges Canguilhem. Derrida gave his “Life Death” seminar over fourteen sessions between 1975 and 1976 at the École normale supérieure in Paris as part of the preparation for students studying for the __agrégation__, a notoriously competitive qualifying 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 Deat__h poses a philosophical question about the close relationship between life and death. Derrida argues that death must be con

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Author

Jacques Derrida (editor); Pascale-Anne Brault (editor); Peggy Kamuf (editor); Pascale-Anne Brault (editor); Michael Naas (editor)

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226826448

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, European & American Philosophy