Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism

Kelly Oliver, Stephanie Straub (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

272 Seiten

2018 | New edition
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
9780823280117 (ISBN)

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This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999-2001. The volume includes essays from a range of scholars working in philosophy, law, Francophone studies, and comparative literature, including established Derridians, activist scholars, and emerging scholars.

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.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.07.2018
Co-Autor	Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9780823280117 / 9780823280117
Zustand	Neuware