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The reproduction of life death : Derrida's La vie la mort / Dawne McCance.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCance, Dawne, 1944- author.
- Series:
- Fordham scholarship online.
- Fordham scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetics--Philosophy.
- Genetics.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (165 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Based on archival translations of Derrida's as-yet untapped (1975-76) 'La Vie lL 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'.
- Contents:
- Double helix
- Schools of life
- Institutions of the "Yes"
- Speaking into a dead man's ear
- Life worth more than life
- The movement of a Pas
- Rhythmos.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 13, 2019).
- This edition previously issued in print: 2019.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780823286287
- 0823286282
- 9780823283927
- 0823283925
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