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Author:   Kelly Oliver ,  Stephanie Straub ,  Katie Chenoweth ,  Lisa Guenther
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
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9780823280117

ISBN 10:   082328011
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   03 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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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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Deconstructing the Death Penalty is an important collection of essays on a single work by Jacques Derrida. Among its authors' impressive credentials is their rich knowledge of the philosopher's corpus of work, manifest on every page. Given that these seminars are at the core of Derrida's life-long and, in his latter years, explicit and over-riding concern with sovereignty, with the human and the animal, and with state violence, the attention this volume devotes to them is of crucial importance. It offers an indispensable reckoning with deconstruction's legacy and relevance to current debates around the question of sovereignty and the state's monopoly on violence. --David Lloyd University of California, Riverside

Deconstructing the Death Penalty is an important collection of essays on a single work by Jacques Derrida. Among its authors' impressive credentials is their rich knowledge of the philosopher's corpus of work, manifest on every page. Given that these seminars are at the core of Derrida's life-long and, in his latter years, explicit and over-riding concern with sovereignty, with the human and the animal, and with state violence, the attention this volume devotes to them is of crucial importance. It offers an indispensable reckoning with deconstruction's legacy and relevance to current debates around the question of sovereignty and the state's monopoly on violence. --David Lloyd University of California, Riverside Deconstructing the Death Penalty is an important collection of essays on a single work by Jacques Derrida. Among its authors' impressive credentials is their rich knowledge of the philosopher's corpus of work, manifest on every page. Given that these seminars are at the core of Derrida's life-long and, in his latter years, explicit and over-riding concern with sovereignty, with the human and the animal, and with state violence, the attention this volume devotes to them is of crucial importance. It offers an indispensable reckoning with deconstruction's legacy and relevance to current debates around the question of sovereignty and the state's monopoly on violence.--David Lloyd University of California, Riverside

Deconstructing the Death Penalty is an important collection of essays on a single work by Jacques Derrida. Among its authors' impressive credentials is their rich knowledge of the philosopher's corpus of work, manifest on every page. Given that these seminars are at the core of Derrida's life-long and, in his latter years, explicit and over-riding concern with sovereignty, with the human and the animal, and with state violence, the attention this volume devotes to them is of crucial importance. It offers an indispensable reckoning with deconstruction's legacy and relevance to current debates around the question of sovereignty and the state's monopoly on violence.---David Lloyd, University of California, Riverside

Deconstructing the Death Penalty is an important collection of essays on a single work by Jacques Derrida. Among its authors' impressive credentials is their rich knowledge of the philosopher's corpus of work, manifest on every page. Given that these seminars are at the core of Derrida's life-long and, in his latter years, explicit and over-riding concern with sovereignty, with the human and the animal, and with state violence, the attention this volume devotes to them is of crucial importance. It offers an indispensable reckoning with deconstruction's legacy and relevance to current debates around the question of sovereignty and the state's monopoly on violence. -- David Lloyd * University of California, Riverside *

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Kelly Oliver (Edited By) Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where she also holds appointments in the departments of African-American Diaspora Studies, Film Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. She is the author of more than one hundred articles, fifteen scholarly books, and three novels. Stephanie Straub (Edited By) Stephanie Straub is completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University.

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