Deconstructing the Death Penalty : Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism / / Stephanie Straub, Kelly Oliver

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY : , : Fordham University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 364.6601
• Soggetto topico: Power (Social sciences); Imprisonment - Moral and ethical aspects; Capital punishment - Moral and ethical aspects; Capital punishment - Philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Soggetto non controllato: Capital Punishment; Death Penalty Abolition; Death Penalty; Deconstruction; Jacques Derrida; Mass Incarceration; Political Theology; Prison Industrial Complex; Psychoanalysis; Sovereignty
• Altri autori: AndersonNicole ChenowethKatie GuentherLisa HowellsChristina KamufPeggy KuikenKir MarderElissa NaasMichael OliverKelly RottenbergElizabeth SaghafiKas ThurschwellAdam TysonSarah
• Persona (resp. second.): OliverKelly; StraubStephanie
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2018.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- contents -- introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty -- chapter 1. Beginning with Literature -- chapter 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution -- chapter 3. Always the Other Who Decides -- chapter 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions -- chapter 5. Derrida at Montaigne -- chapter 6. “Bidding Up” on the Question of Sovereignty -- chapter 7. Calculus -- chapter 8. A Proper Death -- chapter 9. Figures of Interest -- chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions -- chapter 11. Furman and Finitude -- chapter 12. The Heart of the Other? -- chapter 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name -- contributors -- index
• Sommario/riassunto: This volume represents the first collection of essays devoted exclusively to Jacques Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars, conducted from 1999 to 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. These essays attempt to elucidate and expand upon Derrida's deconstruction of the theologico-political logic of the death penalty in order to construct a new form of abolitionism, one not rooted in the problematic logics of sovereign power. These essays provide remarkable insight into Derrida’s ethical and political projects; this volume will not only explore the implications of Derrida’s thought on capital punishment and mass incarceration, but will also help to further elucidate the philosophical groundwork for his later deconstructions of sovereign power and the human/animal divide. Because Derrida is deconstructing the logic of the death penalty, rather than the death penalty itself, his seminars will prove useful to scholars and activists opposing all forms of state sanctioned killing. In compiling this volume, our goals were twofold: first, to make a case for Derrida's continuing importance in debates on capital punishment, mass incarceration, and police brutality, and second, to construct a new, versatile abolitionism, one capable of confronting all forms the death penalty might take.
• Titolo autorizzato: Deconstructing the Death Penalty
• ISBN: 0-8232-8154-X; 0-8232-8012-8; 0-8232-8013-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910478882603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Fordham scholarship online.