Description: Based on archival translations of Derrida's as-yet untapped (1975-76) La vie la mort seminar, McCance's The Reproduction of Life Death offers an unprecedented study of Derrida's engagement both with the logic of reproduction held by 1970s molecular biology and genetics and with reproductivity as theorized and performed by Freud in Beyond the Pleasure Principle.
Brief description: Dawne McCance is Distinguished Professor at the University of Manitoba. Her books include Critical Animal Studies: An Introduction and Derrida On Religion.
Review Quotes: A renowned Derrida scholar, McCance offers a detailed and wide-ranging analysis of Derrida's La vie la mort, a seminar in which Derrida provided an extensive presentation of his understanding and treatment of the interplay between the life sciences and philosophy.-- "Choice"