Religion of the Finite Life? Messianicity and the Right to Live in Derrida's Death Penalty Seminar
Derrida's The Death Penalty seminar puts capital punishment and the sovereign violence that administers it into the very center of the deconstructive enterprise. My essay emphasizes this connection, by arguing that the positive - messianic - stake of deconstruction is the philosophical defense...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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| In: |
Political theology
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
/ Death penalty
/ Religion
/ Life
/ Deconstruction
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Sovereignty
B Deconstruction B Book review B Finitude B Messianism B Vitalism B Political Theology B Abolitionism B thanaticism |
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| Summary: | Derrida's The Death Penalty seminar puts capital punishment and the sovereign violence that administers it into the very center of the deconstructive enterprise. My essay emphasizes this connection, by arguing that the positive - messianic - stake of deconstruction is the philosophical defense of the finite life. In order to prove that, I will first focus on Derrida's notion of life as elaborated in his late writings, most of all Faith and Knowledge, then link it with his interpretation of Khora as the horizontal republic of the living, and finally, apply these concepts to my reading of The Death Penalty seminars, in which they will resurface as Derrida's fundamental confrontation with philosophy as the discipline of death to be counteracted only by the literary intervention of writers. I will claim that the gist of this intervention consists in arresting the sacrificial logic which life brings on itself while attempting to preserve itself, i.e., the aporetic logic of auto/immunity. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 1-2 February-March 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2017.1421605 |