Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 082328011X ISBN 13 : 9780823280117

Editeur : Fordham University Press, 2018

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

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 is completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University.

Lisa Guenther is associate professor of philosophy at Vanderbilt University and a member of REACH Coalition, an organization for reciprocal education based on Tennessee's death row. She is the author of Solitary Confinement: Social Death and its Afterlives (University of Minnesota Press, 2013).

Peggy Kamuf is Professor Emerita of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. Her books include Book of Addresses, which won the René Wellek Prize, and, most recently, Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty.

Kir Kuiken is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fordham University Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 082328011X
• ISBN 13: 9780823280117
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Éditeur: Oliver Kelly, Straub Stephanie
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible