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Author:   Professor Jeffrey R. Di Leo (Texas A&M University-Victoria, USA) ,  Professor Paul Allen Miller (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
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9781350465671

ISBN 10:   1350465674
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   08 January 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: The Death Drive: An Overview: Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA and Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA Part 1: Freud on the Death Drive: Philosophical Readings Chapter 1: Take it to the Limit: Ontology Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA Chapter 2: Baudrillard on the Death Drive: Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA Chapter 3: Trauma as the Breakdown of all Grammar: Grammars of lo inaudito in Freud’s Beyond the Pleasure Principle: María del Rosario Acosta López, University of California, Riverside, USA Chapter 4: Death’s Drive in Hegel and Freud: Shannon M. Mussett, Utah Valley University, USA Chapter 5: The Splitting of Eros in Aristotle: Emanuela Bianchi, New York University, USA Part 2: Poetics of the Death Drive: Literary Connections Chapter 6: Sex and the Death Drive: Rereading Late Henry James: David Greven, University of South Carolina, USA Chapter 7: Elegy, Queerness, and the Lacanian Death Drive: Sara Lindheim, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Chapter 8: Reading Beyond the Death-Drive: From Negative Hallucination to Living Phantasm: Daniel T. O’Hara, Temple University, USA Chapter 9: Language - Automation - Death: Adriana Michele Campos Johnson, University of California, Irvine, USA Chapter 10: Freud’s Antigone, Butler’s Death Drive: Mario Telò, University of California, Berkeley, USA Part 3: Critique of the Death Drive: Theoretical Confrontations Chapter 11: Derrida’s Freud, and the Future of Life’s Auto-Repugnancy: Penelope Deutscher, Northwestern University, USA Chapter 12: Labor, Desire, and the Death Drive: Peter Hitchcock, City University of New York, Graduate Center, USA Chapter 13: The Cruelty Drive: Brian O’Keeffe, Barnard College, USA Chapter 14: Black Ressentiment and the Politics of the Death Drive: A Fanonian Meditation: Zahi Zalloua, Whitman College, USA Chapter 15: Paraontology, Critical Black Studies, and the Death Drive: Nicole Simek, Whitman College, USA Epilogue: “Theory and Culture Beyond the Death Drive: Jeffrey R. Di Leo, University of Houston-Victoria, USA and Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina, USA

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This cutting-edge collection of essays transforms our understanding of the death drive in Freud and his antecedents and successors. Written by a distinguished cohort of scholars, the chapters engage with the most challenging developments in recent psychoanalytic and cultural theory from Foucault’s biopolitics to queer theory and Afro-pessimism. * Maud Ellmann, Randy L and Melvin R Berlin Distinguished Service Professor of English Emerita, University of Chicago, USA *

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Jeffrey R. Di Leo is Professor of English and Philosophy at Texas A&M University-Victoria, USA. He is editor and founder of the critical theory journal symploke, editor-in-chief of American Book Review, and Executive Director of the Society for Critical Exchange and its Winter Theory Institute. He is author, editor, or co-editor of 40 books. His recent books include Happiness (2022), Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: An Overview (2023), and Out of Print (2024). Paul Allen Miller is Carolina Distinguished Professor at the University of South Carolina, USA and Visiting Distinguished Professor at Ewha Womans University, Republic of Korea. He has held visiting appointments in Bochum, Paris, and Beijing. He has published eleven books, sixteen edited volumes, and many articles; his latest book is Theory Does not Exist: Comparative Ancient and Modern Explorations in Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis and Rhetoric (2024).

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