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Deconstructing the death penalty : Derrida's seminars and the new abolitionism / Kelly Oliver and Stephanie M. Straub, editors.
LIBRA HV8698 .D435 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Capital punishment--Philosophy.
- Capital punishment.
- Capital punishment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Imprisonment--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Imprisonment.
- Power (Social sciences).
- Philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 265 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Part I Reading Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars
- 1 Beginning with Literature p. 13 / Peggy Kamuf
- 2 A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution p. 32 / Elizabeth Rottenberg
- 3 Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty p. 63 / Michael Naas
- 4 The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions p. 87 / Christina Howells
- Part II Derrida and his Interlocuters
- 5 Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution p. 101 / Katie Chenoweth
- 6 "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida between Kant and Benjamin p. 119 / Kir Kuiken
- 7 Calculus p. 139 / Kas Saghafi
- Part III Extending Derrida'S Analysis
- 8 A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law p. 159 / Nicole Anderson
- 9 Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death p. 175 / Elissa Marder
- 10 Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty p. 186 / Kellly Oliver
- Part IV Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States
- 11 Furman and Finitude p. 205 / adam Thurschwell
- 12 The Heart of the Other? p. 226 / Sarah Tyson
- 13 An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex p. 239 / Lisa Guenther.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780823280100
- 0823280101
- 9780823280117
- 082328011X
- OCLC:
- 1002822795
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