From Life to Survival: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction

215 Pages·2022·2.204 MB·English

by  Robert Trumbull

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FROM LIFE TO SURVIVAL
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F rom Life
to Survival
DERRIDA, FREUD, AND THE FUTURE OF DECONSTRUCTION
Robert Trumbull
fordham university press New York 2022
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For Eli Trumbull, my everything
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Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future
of Deconstruction 1
1 From Grammatology to Life Death 11
2 Interrogating the Death Drive 35
3 Survival as Autoimmunity 68
4 Mortality and Normativity 97
5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty 127
Acknowledgments 155
notes 157
Bibliography 185
Index 195
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Abbreviations
A Aporias
AF Archive Fever
ARSS “Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides”
BS The Beast and the Sovereign, vols. 1 and 2
D Dissemination
DP The Death Penalty, vols. 1 and 2
FK “Faith and Knowledge”
FWT For What Tomorrow . . .
LD Life Death
LLF Learning to Live Finally
M Margins of Philosophy
N Negotiations
OG Of Grammatology
P Psyche: Inventions of the Other, vol. 1
PC The Post Card
PF The Politics of Friendship
PM Paper Machine
POS Positions
R Rogues
RP Resistances of Psychoanalysis
SM Specters of Marx
VP Voice and Phenomenon
WA Without Alibi
WD Writing and Difference
Citations in text list the source of the English translation followed by the French
original (e.g., OG, 70/103).
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