David Wills

Killing Times

The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Grounded in a deep ethical and political commitment to death penalty abolition, Wills's engaging and powerfully argued book pushes beyond the confines of legal argument to show how the technology of capital punishment defines and appropriates the instant of death and reconfigures the whole of human mortality.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 596g
• ISBN-13: 9780823283521
• ISBN-10: 0823283526
• Artikelnr.: 53535016

Autorenporträt

David Wills is Professor of French Studies and Comparative Literature at Brown University. His major work, on the originary technicity of the human, is developed in three books: Prosthesis (Stanford, 1995), Dorsality (Minnesota, 2008), and Inanimation (Minnesota, 2016). He has translated various works by Jacques Derrida, including the forthcoming Theory and Practice (Chicago, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Machinery of Death or Machinic Life 17
2. The Time of the Trap Door 54
3. The Future Anterior of Blood 87
4. Spirit Wind 119
5. Drone Penalty 150
6. Lam Time 185
Appendix: U.S. Supreme Court Cases Cited 217
Acknowledgments 219
Notes 221
Index 253