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Abstract

In this newest installment in Chicago’s series of Jacques Derrida’s seminars, the renowned philosopher attempts one of his most ambitious goals: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. While much has been written against the death penalty, Derrida contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always overtly, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life. Haunted by this notion, he turns to the key places where such logic has been established—and to the place it has been most effectively challenged: literature.

Publication details

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Place: Chicago

Year: 2013

Pages: 312

DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226090689.001.0001

ISBN (hardback): 9780226144320

ISBN (paperback): 9780226090689

Full citation:

Derrida Jacques (2013) The death penalty I, ed. Crépon Marc, Bennington Geoffrey, Dutoit Thomas. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.