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Overview"Germs of Death explores the idea of genesis, or dissemination, in the early work of Jacques Derrida. Looking at Derrida's published and unpublished work from ""Force and Signification"" in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Mauro Senatore traces the development of Derrida's understanding of genesis both linguistically and biologically, and argues that this topic is an overlooked thread that draws together Derrida's readings of Plato and Hegel. Demonstrating how Derrida's analysis liberates the understanding of genesis from Platonic and Hegelian presupposition, Senatore also highlights Derrida's engagement with the biological thought of his day. Senatore also shows that the implications of Derrida's insights extend into contemporary ethical and political questions relating to postgenomic conceptions of life." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mauro SenatorePublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438468488ISBN 10: 1438468482 Pages: 202 Publication Date: 02 January 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preface Introduction The Inaugural Inscription The Scene of Divine Creation The Legacy of Husserl’s Origin The Most General Geneticism The Generation of Consciousness The Origin of Forms 1. Platonism I: The Paternal Thesis A Problem of Syntax The Origin and Power of the Logos The Textuality of Plato’s Text Autochthony The Natural Tendency to Dissemination The Science of the Disseminated Trace 2. Platonism II: Kho¯ra The Earth of Fathers The Boldness of Timaeus The Dynamis of Kho¯ra The Concept of History 3. Hegelianism I: Tropic Movements The Philosophical Introjection of Ordinary Language The Life of the Concept The Hegelian Treatment of Equivocity The Negation of Consciousness The Two Deaths of the Metaphor 4. Hegelianism II: The Book of Life The Systematic Figure of the Germ The Tree of Life The Circulation of Singular Germs A Note on Classification 5. Hegelianism III: The Genetic Programme This Is a Protocol The Logic Text The Two Deaths of the Preface The Preface Is the Nature of the Logos The Tain of the Mirror A Non-genetic Thinking of Genesis Postscript Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsGerms of Death explores the idea of genesis, or dissemination, in the early work of Jacques Derrida. Looking at Derrida's published and unpublished work from Force and Signification in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Mauro Senatore traces the development of Derrida's understanding of genesis both linguistically and biologically, and argues that this topic is an overlooked thread that draws together Derrida's readings of Plato and Hegel. Demonstrating how Derrida's analysis liberates the understanding of genesis from Platonic and Hegelian presupposition, Senatore also highlights Derrida's engagement with the biological thought of his day. Senatore also shows that the implications of Derrida's insights extend into contemporary ethical and political questions relating to postgenomic conceptions of life. Senatore here demonstrates with stunning insight, clarity, and economy that Derrida's work of the 1960s and '70s needs to be understood as a radical critique or deconstruction of both the philosophical concept of life (from Plato to Hegel) and the prevailing biological model of heredity as a `genetic program.' It will be impossible henceforth to read Derrida on questions of the trace, dissemination, life, and so on, without coming to terms with `the germs of death.' - Michael Naas, author of The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar The book represents a major contribution to the field of Derrida studies and phenomenology, particularly its attention to the concept of genesis that formed the basis of Derrida's earliest study of Husserl and the origin of his concept of writing. The unique contribution is the inclusion of the works from the periods of the mid-1970s, which have been neglected in the mainstream scholarship on Derrida. - Gregg Lambert, author of Philosophy after Friendship: Deleuze's Conceptual Personae Author InformationMauro Senatore is a British Academy Fellow at Durham University, United Kingdom, and Adjunct Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at the Instituto de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile. He is the author and editor of several books, including Performatives After Deconstruction. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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