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The Death Penalty, Volume II (The Seminars of Jacques Derrida), Derrida, Jacques
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022641082X
ISBN-13
9780226410821
eBay Product ID (ePID)
24038286228
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Death Penalty, Volume II
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Subject
Social, General, History & Surveys / Modern
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Series
The Seminars of Jacques Derrida Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.8 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.3 in
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Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2013-016561
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In his lectures on the death penalty Jacques Derrida argues the surprising thesis that 'no philosophical system as such has ever been able rationally to oppose the death penalty'. And he also entertains a second thesis that juridical execution undergirds the legal system. In his support for abolitionism, Derrida participates in 'philosophy' without quite belonging there. In fact, he maintains that juridical execution comes into sharper focus only when we pass from philosophy to theology.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
364.6601
Table Of Content
Foreword to the English Edition General Introduction to the French Edition Editorial Note Translator's Acknowledgments First Session: December 6, 2000 Second Session: December 13, 2000 Third Session: January 10, 2001 Fourth Session: January 31, 2001 Fifth Session: February 7, 2001 Sixth Session: February 21, 2001 Seventh Session: February 28, 2001 Eighth Session: March 7, 2001 Ninth Session: March 21, 2001 Tenth Session: March 28, 2001 Index of Names
Synopsis
In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a deeply entrenched logic throughout the whole of Western philosophy that has justified the state's right to take a life. He also marked literature as a crucial place where this logic has been most effectively challenged. In this second and final volume, Derrida builds on these analyses toward a definitive argument against capital punishment. Of central importance in this second volume is Kant's explicit justification of the death penalty in the Metaphysics of Morals . Thoroughly deconstructing Kant's position--which holds the death penalty as exemplary of the eye-for-an-eye Talionic law--Derrida exposes numerous damning contradictions and exceptions. Keeping the current death penalty in the United States in view, he further explores the "anesthesial logic" he analyzed in volume one, addressing the themes of cruelty and pain through texts by Robespierre and Freud, reading Heidegger, and--in a fascinating, improvised final session--the nineteenth-century Spanish Catholic thinker Donoso Cort s. Ultimately, Derrida shows that the rationality of the death penalty as represented by Kant involves an imposition of knowledge and calculability on a fundamental condition of non-knowledge--that we don't otherwise know what or when our deaths will be. In this way, the death penalty acts out a phantasm of mastery over one's own death. Derrida's thoughts arrive at a particular moment in history: when the death penalty in the United States is the closest it has ever been to abolition, and yet when the arguments on all sides are as confused as ever. His powerful analysis will prove to be a paramount contribution to this debate as well as a lasting entry in his celebrated oeuvre., In the first volume of his extraordinary analysis of the death penalty, Jacques Derrida began a journey toward an ambitious end: the first truly philosophical argument against the death penalty. Exploring an impressive breadth of thought, he traced a deeply entrenched logic throughout the whole of Western philosophy that has justified the state's right to take a life. He also marked literature as a crucial place where this logic has been most effectively challenged. In this second and final volume, Derrida builds on these analyses toward a definitive argument against capital punishment. Of central importance in this second volume is Kant's explicit justification of the death penalty in the Metaphysics of Morals . Thoroughly deconstructing Kant's position--which holds the death penalty as exemplary of the eye-for-an-eye Talionic law--Derrida exposes numerous damning contradictions and exceptions. Keeping the current death penalty in the United States in view, he further explores the "anesthesial logic" he analyzed in volume one, addressing the themes of cruelty and pain through texts by Robespierre and Freud, reading Heidegger, and--in a fascinating, improvised final session--the nineteenth-century Spanish Catholic thinker Donoso Cortés. Ultimately, Derrida shows that the rationality of the death penalty as represented by Kant involves an imposition of knowledge and calculability on a fundamental condition of non-knowledge--that we don't otherwise know what or when our deaths will be. In this way, the death penalty acts out a phantasm of mastery over one's own death. Derrida's thoughts arrive at a particular moment in history: when the death penalty in the United States is the closest it has ever been to abolition, and yet when the arguments on all sides are as confused as ever. His powerful analysis will prove to be a paramount contribution to this debate as well as a lasting entry in his celebrated oeuvre.
LC Classification Number
HV8698.D4713 2014
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