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Drive to Drive: The Deconstruction of the Freudian Trieb (2019)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2019). Drive to Drive: The Deconstruction of the Freudian Trieb. Derrida Today, 12(1), 59-79. https://doi.org/10.3366/drt.2019.0197

In the essay ‘To Speculate – On “Freud’”, which is published in The Postcards: From Socrates to Freud and Beyond (1980) and draws upon the last part of his unedited lecture course on La Vie la mort (taught in 1975), Jacques Derrida engages a close re... Read More about Drive to Drive: The Deconstruction of the Freudian Trieb.

Leaving a Trace in the World (II): Deconstruction and the History of Life (2019)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2019). Leaving a Trace in the World (II): Deconstruction and the History of Life. Postmodern Culture, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1353/pmc.2018.0024

This article tests the hypothesis that the history of life can be told only by assuming the ultra-transcendental conception of life as leaving a trace in the world. It draws together two moments in the work of Jacques Derrida that are chronologically... Read More about Leaving a Trace in the World (II): Deconstruction and the History of Life.

Teleotheology: Derrida and the Aristotelian Foundations of Structuralism (2019)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2019). Teleotheology: Derrida and the Aristotelian Foundations of Structuralism. Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, 63(1), 175-194. https://doi.org/10.5840/philtoday2019611261

This article explores the hypothesis formulated by Derrida in his early work that structuralism is Aristotelian in foundation. To this end, it traces Derrida’s engagement with Aristotle’s Physics between the seminal essays “Force and Signification” (... Read More about Teleotheology: Derrida and the Aristotelian Foundations of Structuralism.

“This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”: Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond (2018)
Journal Article
Senatore, M. (2018). “This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”: Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond. Itinera, 15, 57-76. https://doi.org/10.13130/2039-9251/10510

This essay traces Derrida’s interrogation of Nietzsche and Freud’s concept of cruelty and his attempt to think the beyond that this concept necessarily presupposes. On the one hand, it highlights the key traits of the Nietzschean and Freudian concept... Read More about “This Obscure and Enigmatic Concept”: Philosophy of Cruelty in Nietzsche, Freud, and Beyond.