This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms FROM LIFE TO SURVIVAL This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms F rom Life to Survival DERRIDA, FREUD, AND THE FUTURE OF DECONSTRUCTION Robert Trumbull fordham university press New York 2022 This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Copyright © 2022 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third- party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Fordham University Press also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. Visit us online at www.fordhampress.com. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data available online at https://catalog.loc.gov. Printed in the United States of America 24 23 22 5 4 3 2 1 First edition This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms For Eli Trumbull, my everything This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:21 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Contents List of Abbreviations ix Introduction: Derrida, Freud, and the Future of Deconstruction 1 1 From Grammatology to Life Death 11 2 Interrogating the Death Drive 35 3 Survival as Autoimmunity 68 4 Mortality and Normativity 97 5 Sovereignty, Cruelty, and the Death Penalty 127 Acknowledgments 155 notes 157 Bibliography 185 Index 195 vii This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:35 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms Abbreviations A Aporias AF Archive Fever ARSS “Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides” BS The Beast and the Sovereign, vols. 1 and 2 D Dissemination DP The Death Penalty, vols. 1 and 2 FK “Faith and Knowledge” FWT For What Tomorrow . . . LD Life Death LLF Learning to Live Finally M Margins of Philosophy N Negotiations OG Of Grammatology P Psyche: Inventions of the Other, vol. 1 PC The Post Card PF The Politics of Friendship PM Paper Machine POS Positions R Rogues RP Resistances of Psychoanalysis SM Specters of Marx VP Voice and Phenomenon WA Without Alibi WD Writing and Difference Citations in text list the source of the English translation followed by the French original (e.g., OG, 70/103). ix This content downloaded from 128.112.200.107 on Sat, 26 Feb 2022 17:24:39 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms