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Cover -- DECONSTRUCTING THE DEATH PENALTY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Introduction. From Capital Punishment to Abolitionism: Deconstructing the Death Penalty -- PART I READING DERRIDA'S DEATH PENALTY SEMINARS -- 1. Beginning with Literature -- 2. A New Primal Scene: Derrida and the Scene of Execution -- 3. Always the Other Who Decides: On Sovereignty, Psychoanalysis, and the Death Penalty -- 4. The Death Penalty and Its Exceptions -- PART II DERRIDA AND HIS INTERLOCUTERS -- 5. Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution -- 6. "Bidding Up" on the Question of Sovereignty: Derrida between Kant and Benjamin -- 7. Calculus -- PART III EXTENDING DERRIDA'S ANALYSIS -- 8. A Proper Death: Penalties, Animals, and the Law -- 9. Figures of Interest: The Widow, the Telephone, and the Time of Death -- 10. Opening the Blinds on Botched Executions: Interrupting the Time of the Death Penalty -- PART IV DERRIDA AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN THE UNITED STATES -- 11. Furman and Finitude -- 12. The Heart of the Other? -- 13. An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name: From the Death Penalty to the Prison Industrial Complex -- List of Contributors -- Index