Situating itself within the context of current debates in continental philosophy, and through a series of readings of Aristotle, Nietzsche, Heidegger and Derrida to recent developments in life sciences, this book offers a critical enquiry concerning the traditional way of understanding life in the history of metaphysics.

Juan Manuel Garrido teaches philosophy at the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. He earned his degree under Jean-Luc Nancy at the Marc Bloch Université, Strasbourg. He is the author of La formation des formes and Chances de la pensée-à partir de Jean-Luc Nancy.