Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty

by Peggy Kamuf

Book Overview

Why have generations of philosophers failed or refused to articulate a rigorous challenge to the death penalty, when literature has been rife with death penalty abolitionism for centuries? In this book, Peggy Kamuf explores why any properly philosophical critique of capital punishment in the West must confront the literary as that which exceeds the logical demands of philosophy.

Jacques Derrida has written that "the modern history of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823282295
• ISBN13: 9780823282296
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"