by Christina Howells (Author), Michael Naas (Author), Christina Howells (Author), Adam Thurschwell (Author), Michael Naas (Author), Lisa Guenther (Author), Kas Saghafi (Author), Elizabeth Rottenberg (Author), Nicole Anderson (Author), Katie Chenoweth (Author), Elissa Marder (Author), Kelly Oliver (Author), Peggy Kamuf (Author), Michael Naas (Author), Stephanie Straub (Author), Sarah Tyson (Author), Kir Kuiken (Author)
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.
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 296
Edition: 1
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 03 Jul 2018
ISBN 10: 0823280101
ISBN 13: 9780823280100