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The Reproduction of Life Death The Reproduction of Life Death Derrida’s La vie la mort Dawne McCance fordham university press New York 2019 Copyright © 2019 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 per sis tence 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 w ill 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 Amer i ca 21 2 0 1 9 5 4 3 2 1 First edition for Emily Stella Mae McCance and in memory of Mae Lawlor and Mae Lawlor Daniela Merello Contents Abbreviations of Works by Jacques Derrida ix Introduction 1 1. Double Helix 9 2. Schools of Life 33 3. Institutions of the “Yes” 51 4. Speaking into a Dead Man’s Ear 74 5. Life Worth More Than Life 97 6. The Movement of a Pas 125 7. Rhythmos 147 Acknowl edgments 151 Notes 153 Works Cited 177 Index 187 abbreviations of works by jacques derrida AH “The Age of Hegel.” Translated by Susan Winnett. In Who’s Afraid of Philosophy? Right to Philosophy I, translated by Jan Plug, 117–49. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. AHG “The Aforementioned So- Called Human Genome.” Translated by Elizabeth Rottenberg. In Negotiations: Interventions and In- terviews, 1971–2001, edited by Elizabeth Rottenberg, 199–214. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2002. AI “Autoimmunity: Real and Symbolic Suicides: A Dialogue with Jacques Derrida.” Translated by Pascale- Anne Brault and Michael Naas. In Philosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, edited by Giovanna Borradori, 85–136 Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. ATT The Animal That Therefore I Am. Edited by Marie- Louise Mallet. Translated by David Wills. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008. AV “Avowing— The Impossible: ‘Returns,’ Repentance, and Recon- ciliation.” Translated by Gil Anidjar. In Living Together: Jacques Derrida’s Communities of Vio lence and Peace, edited by Elisabeth Weber, 18–41. New York: Fordham University Press, 2013. B “Biodegradables: Seven Diary Fragments.” Translated by Peggy Kamuf. Critical Inquiry 15, no. 4 (1989): 812–73. BSI The Beast & the Sovereign, vol. 1. Edited by Michel Lisse, Marie- Louise Mallet, and Ginette Michaud. Translated by Geoffrey Bennington. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. Cir “Circumfession.” Translated by Geoffrey Bennington. In Jacques Derrida, by Geoffrey Bennington and Jacques Derrida. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993. CO “Coming into One’s Own.” Translated by James Hulbert. In Psy- choanalysis and the Question of the Text, edited by Geoffrey Hart- man, 112–48. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978. ix