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Deconstructing the death penalty : Derrida's seminars and the new abolitionism /

This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including establis...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Oliver, Kelly, 1958- (Editor ), Straub, Stephanie M. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism : Deconstructing the Death Penalty
  • READING DERRIDA'S DEATH PENALTY SEMINARS. Beginning with Literature ; A New Primal Scene : Derrida and the Scene of Execution ; Always the Other Who Decides : On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty ; The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions
  • DERRIDA AND HIS INTERLOCUTERS. Derrida at Montaigne : A Stay of Execution ; "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty : Derrida between Kant and Benjamin ; Calculus
  • EXTENDING DERRIDA'S ANALYSIS. A Proper Death : Penalties, Animals, and the Law ; Figures of Interest : The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death ; Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions : Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty
  • DERRIDA AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. Furman and Finitude ; The Heart of the Other? ; An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name : From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex.