Deconstructing the Death Penalty (EPUB) von Kelly Oliver

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