Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism by Oliver, Kelly

Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780823280117)

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Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism by Oliver, Kelly

Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism

$39.00
Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism by Oliver, Kelly

Deconstructing the Death Penalty: Derrida's Seminars and the New Abolitionism

$39.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Kelly Oliver
ISBN-10: 082328011X
ISBN-13: 9780823280117
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/03/2018
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
By Kelly Oliver
By Kelly Oliver
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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.

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