The Text and The Living II. Jacques Derrida between Biology and Deconstruction.

Learning to live finally, Jacques Derrida’s last interview, while death is impending invites us to take a step back and re-read his oeuvre—from Husserl’s Origin of Geometry: An Introduction to his latest words ‘always prefer life and constantly affirm survival’—on the track of life. Along this reverse path, we will encounter the animal and the bestiary associated with sovereignty; auto-immunity and thus the community and the political; survival and thus testimony, Blanchot and literature. However, in order to understand the sense of those apparently recent traces, we must go much further back, to the point of bringing to light, in the very first steps of deconstruction, a more or less explicit confrontation with life sciences (paleontology, ethology and, above all, biology and the theory of evolution). To the point of understanding the investigation of life not only as one of the issues of deconstruction but as its very matrix