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First edition. |
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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism : Deconstructing the Death Penalty -- READING DERRIDA'S DEATH PENALTY SEMINARS. Beginning with Literature ; A New Primal Scene : Derrida and the Scene of Execution ; Always the Other Who Decides : On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty ; The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions -- DERRIDA AND HIS INTERLOCUTERS. Derrida at Montaigne : A Stay of Execution ; "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty : Derrida between Kant and Benjamin ; Calculus -- EXTENDING DERRIDA'S ANALYSIS. A Proper Death : Penalties, Animals, and the Law ; Figures of Interest : The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death ; Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions : Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty -- DERRIDA AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. Furman and Finitude ; The Heart of the Other? ; An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name : From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Derrida, Jacques.
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Derrida, Jacques. |
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Derrida, Jacques. |
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Capital punishment -- Philosophy.
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Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Power (Social sciences)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Semiotics & Theory. |
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Capital punishment -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Imprisonment -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Power (Social sciences) |
| Indexed Term |
Capital Punishment. |
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Death Penalty Abolition. |
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Death Penalty. |
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Deconstruction. |
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Jacques Derrida. |
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Mass Incarceration. |
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Political Theology. |
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Prison Industrial Complex. |
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Psychoanalysis. |
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Sovereignty. |
| Added Author |
Oliver, Kelly, 1958- editor.
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Straub, Stephanie M., editor.
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| ISBN |
9780823280131 (electronic bk.) |
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0823280136 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823280124 (electronic bk.) |
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0823280128 (electronic bk.) |
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9780823280100 |
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0823280101 |
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9780823280117 |
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082328011X |
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