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The Death Penalty, Volume I (Hardcover)
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The Death Penalty, Volume I (Hardcover)
Series: The Seminars of Jacques Derrida
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In this newest installment in Chicago's series of Jacques Derrida's
seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most
ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the
death penalty. While much has been written against the death
penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if
not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign
state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he
turns to the key places where such logic has been established - and
to the place it has been most effectively challenged: literature.
With his signature genius and patient yet dazzling readings of an
impressive breadth of texts, Derrida examines everything from the
Bible to Plato to Camus to Jean Genet, with special attention to
Kant and post-World War II juridical texts, to draw the landscape
of death penalty discourses. Keeping clearly in view the death rows
and execution chambers of the United States, he shows how arguments
surrounding cruel and unusual punishment depend on what he calls an
"anaesthesial logic," which has also driven the development of
death penalty technology from the French guillotine to lethal
injection. Confronting a demand for philosophical rigor, he pursues
provocative analyses of the shortcomings of abolitionist discourse.
Above all, he argues that the death penalty and its attendant
technologies are products of a desire to put an end to one of the
most fundamental qualities of our finite existence: the radical
uncertainty of when we will die. Arriving at a critical juncture in
history - especially in the United States, one of the last
Christian-inspired democracies to resist abolition - The Death
Penalty is both a timely response to an important ethical debate
and a timeless addition to Derrida's esteemed body of work.
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