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 Edition
General Introduction to the French Edition
Editorial Note
Translators’ Note
First Session: Programs

Second 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 Life

Fifth Session: The Indefatigable

Sixth Session: The “Limping” Model: The Story of the Colossus

Seventh Session

Eighth Session: Cause (“Nietzsche”)

Ninth Session: Of Interpretation

Tenth Session: Thinking the Division of Labor—and the Contagion of the Proper Name

Eleventh Session: The Escalade—of the Devil in Person

Twelfth Session: Freud’s Leg(acies)

Thirteenth Session: Sidestep Detour: Thesis, Hypothesis, Prosthesis

Fourteenth Session: Tightenings
  Index of Proper Names