Deconstructing the Death Penalty

Kelly Oliver (Edited By) Kelly Oliver is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, where she also holds appointments in the departments of African-American Diaspora Studies, Film Studies, and Women's and Gender Studies. She is the author of more than one hundred articles, fifteen scholarly books, and three novels.Stephanie Straub (Edited By) Stephanie Straub is completing a PhD in English at Vanderbilt University.

• Introduction: From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death PenaltyStephanie M. Straub Part I: Reading Derrida's Death Penalty Seminars1. Beginning with LiteraturePeggy Kamuf 2. Derrida and the Scene of ExecutionElizabeth Rottenberg 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death PenaltyMichael Naas 4. The Death Penalty and Its ExceptionsChristina Howells Part II: Derrida and His Interlocuters5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of ExecutionKatie Chenoweth6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida Between Kant and BenjaminKir Kuiken 7. CalculusKas Saghafi Part III: Extending Derrida's Analysis8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the LawNicole Anderson 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of DeathElissa Marder 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death PenaltyKelly Oliver Part IV: Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States11. Furman and FinitudeAdam Thurschwell 12. The Heart of the Other?Sarah Tyson 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial ComplexLisa Guenther List of Contributors Index