Life Death

Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of many books published by the University of Chicago Press. Pascale-Anne Brault is professor of French at DePaul University and is the translator of several books by Derrida. Peggy Kamuf is professor emerita of French and Italian and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. She has written, edited, or translated many books, by Derrida and others, and is coeditor of the series of Derrida’s seminars at the University of Chicago Press. Michael Naas is professor of philosophy at DePaul University and is the author of several books, most recently Plato and the Invention of Life.

• Foreword to the English EditionGeneral Introduction to the French EditionEditorial NoteTranslators’ NoteFirst Session: ProgramsSecond Session: Logic of the Living (She the Living)Third Session: Transition (Oedipus’s Faux Pas)Fourth Session: The Logic of the Supplement: The Supplement of the Other, of Death, of Meaning, of LifeFifth Session: The IndefatigableSixth Session: The “Limping” Model: The Story of the ColossusSeventh SessionEighth Session: Cause (“Nietzsche”)Ninth Session: Of InterpretationTenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor—and the Contagion of the Proper NameEleventh Session: The Escalade—of the Devil in PersonTwelfth Session: Freud’s Leg(acies)Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, ProsthesisFourteenth Session: TighteningsIndex of Proper Names

"In these exceptionally complex, wide-ranging lectures written for a 1975–76 course, Derrida takes very seriously Nietzsche's warning to 'beware . . . saying that death is opposed to life' . . . . Essential."