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Deconstructing the Death Penalty - Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,649
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Deconstructing the Death Penalty - Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism (Hardcover): Kelly Oliver, Stephanie Straub

Deconstructing the Death Penalty - Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism (Hardcover)

Kelly Oliver, Stephanie Straub; Contributions by Katie Chenoweth, Lisa Guenther, Christina Howells, Peggy Kamuf, Kir Kuiken, Elissa Marder, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver

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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.

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: July 2018
First published: 2018
Editors: Kelly Oliver • Stephanie Straub
Contributors: Katie Chenoweth • Lisa Guenther • Christina Howells • Peggy Kamuf • Kir Kuiken • Elissa Marder • Michael Naas • Kelly Oliver
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8010-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
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LSN: 0-8232-8010-1
Barcode: 9780823280100

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