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

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

Kelly Oliver and Stephanie M. Straub, editors

Fordham University Press, 2018

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This volume brings together scholars of philosophy, law, and literature, including prominent Derrideans alongside activist scholars, to elucidate and expand upon an important project of Derrida's final years, the seminars he conducted on the death penalty from 1999 to 2001. Deconstructing the Death Penalty provides remarkable insight into Derrida's ethical and political work. Beyond exploring the implications of Derrida's thought on capital punishment and mass incarceration, the contributors also elucidate the philosophical groundwork for his subsequent deconstructions of sovereign power and the human/animal divide. Because Derrida was concerned with the logic of the death penalty, rather than the death penalty itself, his seminars have proven useful to scholars and activists opposing all forms of state sanctioned killing. The volume establishes Derrida's importance for continuing debates on capital punishment, mass incarceration, and police brutality. At the same time, by deconstructing the theologico-political logic of the death penalty, it works to construct a new, versatile abolitionism, one capable of confronting all forms the death penalty might take.

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Introduction: From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty Stephanie M. Straub Part I: Reading Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars 1. Beginning with Literature Peggy Kamuf 2. Derrida and the Scene of Execution Elizabeth Rottenberg 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty Michael Naas 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions Christina Howells Part II: Derrida and His Interlocuters 5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution Katie Chenoweth 6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and Benjamin Kir Kuiken 7. Calculus Kas Saghafi Part III: Extending Derrida's Analysis 8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law Nicole Anderson 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death Elissa Marder 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty Kelly Oliver Part IV: Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States 11. Furman and Finitude Adam Thurschwell 12. The Heart of the Other? Sarah Tyson 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex Lisa Guenther List of Contributors Index

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