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Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism
Contributor(s): Oliver, Kelly (Editor), Straub, Stephanie (Editor), Chenoweth, Katie (Contribution by)

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 ISBN: 082328011X     ISBN-13: 9780823280117
Publisher: Fordham University Press
OUR PRICE: $37.05  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2018
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BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | Movements - Deconstruction
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- Social Science | Criminology
Dewey: 364.660
LCCN: 2017054130
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 8.9" L (0.85 lbs) 272 pages
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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.

Contributor Bio(s): Straub, Stephanie: - Stephanie Straub is completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University.Guenther, Lisa: - 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).Oliver, Kelly: - 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.Saghafi, Kas: - KAS SAGHAFI is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis.Oliver, Kelly: - 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.Kuiken, Kir: - Kir Kuiken is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY.Marder, Elissa: - Elissa Marder is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University and Distinguished International Faculty Fellow at the London Graduate School. Her most recent book is Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert).Naas, Michael: - Michael Naas is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago. His books include The End of the World and Other Teachable Moments: Jacques Derrida's Final Seminar and Miracle and Machine: Jacques Derrida and the Two Sources of Religion, Science, and the Media (both Fordham).Rottenberg, Elizabeth: -

Elizabeth Rottenberg is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University and a practicing psychoanalyst in Chicago. She is the author of Inheriting the Future: Legacies of Kant, Freud, and Flaubert (Stanford) and the editor and translator of many books by Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Jean-François Lyotard.

Kamuf, Peggy: - 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.
 
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