Based on archival translations of Derridas as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCances Derrida and life death offers an unprecedented study of Derridas 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.
Based on archival translations of Derridas as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCances Derrida and life death offers an unprecedented study of Derridas 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.