Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction (i.e., the death drive) 1
5. 1. Statues Also Die 18
6. 2. Open Letter to the Enemy: Jean Genet, War, and the Exact Measure of Man 51
7. 3. Mayhem: Symbolic Violence and the Culture of the Death Drive 84
8. 4. War, Word, Worst: Reading Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho 116
9. 5. The Translation of a System in Deconstruction: Jacques Derrida and the War of Language against Itself 143
10. Afterword 174
11. Notes 187
12. Bibliography 217
13. Index 227