Germs of Death. The Problem of Genesis in Jacques Derrida

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Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 Preface......Page 12 Introduction The Inaugural Inscription......Page 16 The Scene of Divine Creation......Page 17 The Legacy of Husserl’s Origin......Page 23 The Most General Geneticism......Page 29 The Generation of Consciousness......Page 31 The Origin of Forms......Page 35 Chapter 1 Platonism I: The Paternal Thesis......Page 40 A Problem of Syntax......Page 41 The Origin and Power of the Logos......Page 46 The Textuality of Plato’s Text......Page 50 Autochthony......Page 54 The Natural Tendency to Dissemination......Page 57 The Science of the Disseminated Trace......Page 60 Chapter 2 Platonism II: Khora......Page 64 The Earth of Fathers......Page 66 The Boldness of Timaeus......Page 72 The Dynamis of Khora......Page 76 The Concept of History......Page 78 Chapter 3 Hegelianism I: Tropic Movements......Page 84 The Philosophical Introjection of Ordinary Language......Page 85 The Life of the Concept......Page 87 The Hegelian Treatment of Equivocity......Page 91 The Negation of Consciousness......Page 99 The Two Deaths of the Metaphor......Page 102 Chapter 4 Hegelianism II: The Book of Life......Page 108 The Systematic Figure of the Germ......Page 110 The Tree of Life......Page 116 The Circulation of Singular Germs......Page 121 A Note on Classification......Page 127 Chapter 5 Hegelianism III: The Genetic Programme......Page 130 This Is a Protocol......Page 131 The Logic Text......Page 133 The Two Deaths of the Preface......Page 135 The Preface Is the Nature of the Logos......Page 143 The Tain of the Mirror......Page 145 A Non-genetic Thinking of Genesis......Page 150 Postscript......Page 154 I.......Page 155 II.......Page 159 Notes......Page 162 Bibliography......Page 192 Index......Page 198