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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (272 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823280131
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Deconstructing the Death PenaltyLOC classification:
  • HV8698 .D435 2018
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Contents:
Cover -- DECONSTRUCTING THE DEATH PENALTY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty -- PART I READING DERRIDA'S DEATH PENALTY SEMINARS -- 1. Beginning with Literature -- 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution -- 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty -- 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions -- PART II DERRIDA AND HIS INTERLOCUTERS -- 5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution -- 6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida between Kant and Benjamin -- 7. Calculus -- PART III EXTENDING DERRIDA'S ANALYSIS -- 8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law -- 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death -- 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty -- PART IV DERRIDA AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- 11. Furman and Finitude -- 12. The Heart of the Other? -- 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex -- List of Contributors -- Index.
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Cover -- DECONSTRUCTING THE DEATH PENALTY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty -- PART I READING DERRIDA'S DEATH PENALTY SEMINARS -- 1. Beginning with Literature -- 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution -- 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty -- 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions -- PART II DERRIDA AND HIS INTERLOCUTERS -- 5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution -- 6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida between Kant and Benjamin -- 7. Calculus -- PART III EXTENDING DERRIDA'S ANALYSIS -- 8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law -- 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death -- 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty -- PART IV DERRIDA AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- 11. Furman and Finitude -- 12. The Heart of the Other? -- 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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