Germs of Death
The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida
1st Edition
Published on 15. February 2018
202 pages
978-1-4384-6849-5 (ISBN)
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An analysis of Derrida's early work engaging Plato, Hegel, and the life sciences.
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English
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Basel/Berlin/Boston
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Professional and scholarly
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Mauro 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.
Content
Acknowledgments
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
Index
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
Index
