...Brian McGrath In the Death Penalty seminar, Derrida is on the side of abolition. The seminar has in mind an end: the end of the death penalty. But this end is not simple or straightforward, for as Derrida explores, the death penalty is nothing other than an attempt to control the end by making...

... published and unpublished seminars that Derrida delivered chiefly in Europe and North America. Highlights of the various essays are reviewed and at various points some few issues of a critical nature are raised for consideration. The seminars Life Death (1975–76), Hospitality (1995–96) and Death Penalty...

... of institutions. It is a gesture that puts before us and on the line the mortal face of the “glorious body” sublated by philosophy and its teaching. © 2021 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2021 life/death Nietzsche François Jacob program death penalty Jacques Derrida References...

... on topics such as the death penalty, sovereignty and animality, the juridical concepts of pardon and perjury, Marxist discourse in France, and the biological concept of life, these volumes both supplement many of the already well-known subjects of Derrida s work and present wholly undiscovered elements...

... Project. With Pascale-Anne Brault she coedited La vie la mort (2019) for the Bibliothe`que Derrida series at the E´ditions du Seuil, and they are also coediting the 1994 1996 seminars on hospitality for the same series. Her most recent book is Literature and the Remains of the Death Penalty (2019...

... understanding of many critical terms in his corpus; it has demonstrated the influence of various teaching institutions on his thought; and it has clarified how topics such as the death penalty, testimony, and philosophical nationalism occupied him for years at a time.1 And yet, at the same time, the project has...

..., and resolutions denouncing the fourteen defendants are quite flamboyant, a plethora of metaphors, hyper- boles, allusions, and more or less imaginative circumlocutions for the death penalty. The printed materials, though quite visible, represent only a small por- tion of this condemnatory avalanche.Václav...

... between the general atti- tude toward violence in each culture (e.g., concerning the death penalty) and the reactions of readers to the virtual violence in texts. Yehong Zhang explores the differences between the responses of young readers from Ger- many and China to traditional fairy tales...

... between the general atti- tude toward violence in each culture (e.g., concerning the death penalty) and the reactions of readers to the virtual violence in texts. Yehong Zhang explores the differences between the responses of young readers from Ger- many and China to traditional fairy tales...

...., concerning the death penalty) and the reactions of readers to the virtual violence in texts. Yehong Zhang explores the differences between the responses of young readers from Ger- many and China to traditional fairy tales, relating them to a major differ- ence between the value systems held...

... between the general atti- tude toward violence in each culture (e.g., concerning the death penalty) and the reactions of readers to the virtual violence in texts. Yehong Zhang explores the differences between the responses of young readers from Ger- many and China to traditional fairy tales...

... graphic descriptions of physical violence. His results show a strong connection between the general atti- tude toward violence in each culture (e.g., concerning the death penalty) and the reactions of readers to the virtual violence in texts. Yehong Zhang explores the differences between...

... foul—a straight red card—off he went. The Ghanaian star Asamoah Gyan took the penalty kick, but his shot hit the crossbar instead of going into the net. Since the score was still tied, the outcome of the game then turned on penalty kicks. A rattled Ghana team lost 4–2. Was Suarez...

... the 388 Poetics Today 27:2 Eichmann trial and Hannah Arendt’s claims (that the Jews, through their councils, had contributed to their own deaths) to get historians to analyze with less emotion the complex situations in which the Jewish leaders found themselves. These are writings from beyond...

...) demonstrates in his argument against Khomeini, a death sentence for Rushdie would not be inevitable in an Islamic trial, and even if such a penalty were to be meted out, Rushdie would still be offered the chance of a reprieve. 35.  “Here he is neither Mahomet nor MoeHammered; has adopted, instead...

...) it is finally revealed that the character played by Kevin Spacey, with the help of a friend, has thought up and carried out the entire conspir- acy. In this case, as an ardent opponent of the death penalty, he tries to prove that innocent people can be wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. Fincher’s...

... the German state is the death penalty but executions would be performed in secret: ‘‘the pris- oners [would] vanish without a trace and ‘‘no information will be given as to their where- abouts or their fate so as to ensure ‘‘efficient and enduring intimidation’’ (quoted in Graziano 1992: 16–17). For more...

... ( New York : Knopf ). 2000 Troubling Confessions: Speaking Guilt in Law and Literature ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press ). Büchner George 1971 [1835] Danton's Death , in The Plays of Georg Büchner , translated by Price Victor ( Oxford : Oxford University Press...

... ( Philadelphia : Westminster ). Broch Hermann 1995 The Death of Virgil , translated by Untermeyer Jean Starr ( New York : Vintage/Random House ). Brown Raymond E. 1993 The Birth of the Messiah ( New York : Doubleday ). Buber Martin 1960 The Prophetic Faith ( New...

... power, wherewith they speed up or defer a verdict that could lead to the pronouncement of a death penalty and to the prince’s actual death. This use of narrative operates in the judicial context of a trial within the frame narrative. The embedded tale entitled “The Merchant and the Rogues...