Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. contents v
3. introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty 1
4. part I. Reading Derrida’s Death Penalty Seminars
5. chapter 1. Beginning with Literature 13
6. chapter 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution 32
7. chapter 3. Always the Other Who Decides 63
8. chapter 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions 87
9. part II. Derrida and His Interlocutors
10. chapter 5. Derrida at Montaigne 101
11. chapter 6. “Bidding Up” on the Question of Sovereignty 119
12. chapter 7. Calculus 139
13. part III. Extending Derrida’s Analysis
14. chapter 8. A Proper Death 159
15. chapter 9. Figures of Interest 175
16. chapter 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions 186
17. part IV. Derrida and Capital Punishment in the United States
18. chapter 11. Furman and Finitude 205
19. chapter 12. The Heart of the Other? 226
20. chapter 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name 239
21. contributors 259
22. index 263