The death penalty I

Jacques Derrida

Geoffrey Bennington, Marc Crépon, Thomas Dutoit (eds)

University of Chicago Press - Chicago

2013

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.