The Tropic-Concepts of Life: Jacques Derrida's Contribution to the Question of Metaphor in the Life Sciences.

In the field of life science there is a growing awareness of the metaphorical tenor of many of its key concepts and the problems that arise from them, as in the now-controversial case of the genetic 'program'. In the seminar Life Death (2019) Derrida addresses this question from Georges Canguilhem's...

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Published in:	Paragraph Vol. 47; no. 3; pp. 258 - 273
Main Author:	Vitale, Francesco
Format:	Article
Published:	Edinburgh University Press Nov2024
Subjects:	Metaphor Concepts Life sciences Deconstruction Theory of knowledge
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