Deconstructing the Death Penalty : : Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism /

Deconstructing the Death Penalty : : Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism / / ed. by Kelly Oliver, Stephanie Straub.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
MitwirkendeR:
Anderson, Nicole,
Chenoweth, Katie,
Guenther, Lisa,
Howells, Christina,
Kamuf, Peggy,
Kuiken, Kir,
Marder, Elissa,
Naas, Michael,
Oliver, Kelly,
Rottenberg, Elizabeth,
Saghafi, Kas,
Straub, Stephanie M.,
Thurschwell, Adam,
Tyson, Sarah,
TeilnehmendeR:
Anderson, Nicole.
Chenoweth, Katie.
Guenther, Lisa.
Howells, Christina.
Kamuf, Peggy.
Kuiken, Kir.
Marder, Elissa.
Naas, Michael.
Oliver, Kelly.
Rottenberg, Elizabeth.
Saghafi, Kas.
Thurschwell, Adam.
Tyson, Sarah.
HerausgeberIn:
Oliver, Kelly,
Straub, Stephanie,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • contents
  • introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty
  • part I. Reading Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars
  • chapter 1. Beginning with Literature
  • chapter 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution
  • chapter 3. Always the Other Who Decides
  • chapter 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions
  • part II. Derrida and His Interlocutors
  • chapter 5. Derrida at Montaigne
  • chapter 6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty
  • chapter 7. Calculus
  • part III. Extending Derrida's Analysis
  • chapter 8. A Proper Death
  • chapter 9. Figures of Interest
  • chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions
  • part IV. Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States
  • chapter 11. Furman and Finitude
  • chapter 12. The Heart of the Other?
  • chapter 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name
  • contributors
  • index

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