Death Penalty, Volume I

"Originally published as Seminaire: La peine de mort, vol. 1 (1999-2000). 2012 Editions Galilee"--Title page verso.

About the author

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published in their English translation by the University of Chicago Press.

Summary

While much has been written against the death penalty, the author contends that Western philosophy is massively, if not always obviously, complicit with a logic in which a sovereign state has the right to take a life.

Product details

• Authors: Jacques Derrida, Jacques (?cole Pratique Des Hautes-?Tudes Derrida, Jacques (?cole Pratique des Hautes-?tudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris) Derrida
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Bennington (Editor), Marc Crepon (Editor), Peggy Kamuf (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.12.2013
• EAN: 9780226144320
• ISBN: 978-0-226-14432-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Seminars of Jacques Derrida; The Seminars of Jacques Derrida; The Seminars of Jacques Derrida (CHI)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Ethical Issues: Capital Punishment, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Capital Punishment