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University of Chicago Press, Chicago
2013
312 Pages
ISBN 9780226144320
The death penalty I
Jacques Derrida
Edited by Geoffrey Bennington, Marc Crépon, Thomas Dutoit
Translated by Peggy Kamuf
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 hasbeen established—and to the place it has been most effectively challenged: literature.
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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226090689.001.0001
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Derrida, J. (2013). The death penalty I, ed. Crépon Marc, Bennington Geoffrey, Dutoit Thomas, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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