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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Introduction: From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty
Stephanie M. Straub
Part I: Reading Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars
1. Beginning with Literature
Peggy Kamuf
2. Derrida and the Scene of Execution
Elizabeth Rottenberg
3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty
Michael Naas
4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions
Christina Howells
Part II: Derrida and His Interlocuters
5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution
Katie Chenoweth
6. “Bidding Up” on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and Benjamin
Kir Kuiken
7. Calculus
Kas Saghafi
Part III: Extending Derrida’s Analysis
8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law
Nicole Anderson
9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death
Elissa Marder
10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty
Kelly Oliver
Part IV: Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States
11. Furman and Finitude
Adam Thurschwell
12. The Heart of the Other?
Sarah Tyson
13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex
Lisa Guenther
List of Contributors
Index