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Subject(s)

• Derrida, Jacques [Browse]
• Husserl, Edmund 1859-1938 [Browse]
• Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich 1770-1831 [Browse]
• Plato [Browse]
• Beginning [Browse]
• Biology—Philosophy [Browse]

Series

SUNY series in contemporary French thought [More in this series]

Summary note

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 Looking at Derrida's published and unpublished work from "Force and Signification" in 1963 to Glas in 1974, Maura Senatore traces the development of Derrida's understanding of genesis both linguistically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 shows that the implications of Derrida's insights extend into contemporary ethical and political questions relating to postgenomic conceptions of life--back cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-182) and index.

ISBN

• 9781438468471 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))
• 1438468474 ((hardcover ; : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2017013957

OCLC

1009279958

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