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The Death Penalty

Hardcover • 2014 • 1. edition

The Death Penalty

By Jacques Derrida

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About the book

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 obviously, 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 be...Show more

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9780226144320

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press

Published year

2014

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1

Original title

The Death Penalty

Format

Hardcover

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