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Title The biopolitics of punishment : Derrida and Foucault / edited by Rick Elmore and Ege Selin Islekel
Published Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2022]
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Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Works Cited -- Editors' Introduction -- Part 1. Punishment and Sacrifice: The Death Penalty and the Penitentiary -- Chapter 1. Biopolitics and the Politics of Sacrifice: Derrida on Life, Life Death, and the Death Penalty -- Chapter 2. Posthuman and Postanimal Futures, or The Possibilities of a Deconstructive Biopolitics -- Chapter 3. Blood on Our Minds, Blood on Our Hands -- Chapter 4. Foucault and the Biopolitics of the Penitentiary: Death in/by Incarceration
Part 2. Taking Lives, Letting Die: The Biopolitics of Race -- Chapter 5. Making Die or Letting Die: Derrida, Foucault, and the Refugee Crisis -- Chapter 6. Counting Heads: Reason, the Human, and Capital Punishment(s) -- Chapter 7. From the Will to Race to Hygienic Feminism: Race, State, Habit -- Part 3. Resistance in Action -- Chapter 8. Fearless Lives: Parrhesia in a Biopolitical Frame -- Chapter 9. The Silent Exception: Hunger-Striking and Lip-Sewing
Chapter 10. The Etymology of Unity: Derrida, Foucault, and the End of Prisons -- List of Contributors
Summary "The Biopolitics of Punishment marks a new chapter in the long-standing debate between Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault. The essays collected in this volume chart the undertheorized dialogue between the two philosophers on questions of life, death, punishment, power, and resistance"-- Provided by publisher
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Derrida, Jacques.
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984.
SUBJECT Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
Derrida, Jacques
Derrida, Jacques fast
Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984 fast
Subject Punishment -- Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY / General
Punishment -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Elmore, Rick, editor.
Islekel, Ege Selin, editor.
Bargu, Banu
Hansen, Sarah
Kimoto, Tamsin
López, María de la Cruz Salvador
Naas, Michael
Oliver, Kelly
Stone, Brad Elliott
Toevs, Janos
LC no. 2021062401
ISBN 0810144891
9780810144897