Death and Other Penalties [electronic resource] : Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration /
Adelsberg, Geoffrey,editor.
New York, NY : Fordham University Press,
[2015]
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility.
Description based upon print version of record.
""contents""; ""foreword: life and other responsibilities""; ""acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Death and Other Penalties""; ""Legacies of Slavery""; ""Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition""; ""From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration""; ""Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell â€œMaroonâ€? Shoatz""; ""Death Penalties""; ""In Realityâ€? From the Row""; ""U.S. Racism and Derridaâ€?s Theologico-Political Sovereignty""
""Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making â€œGoodâ€? Death a â€œGoodâ€? Penalty""""Death Penalty â€œAbolitionâ€? in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security""; ""On the Inviolability of Human Life""; ""Rethinking Power and Responsibility""; ""Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis""; ""Prisons and Palliative Politics""; ""Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants""; ""Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security""; ""Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference""; ""Isolation and Resistance""
""Statement on Solitary Confinement""""The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space""; ""Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry""; ""Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture""
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Mass incarceration is one of the most pressing ethical and political issues of our time. In this volume, philosophers join activists and those incarcerated on death row to grapple with contemporary U.S. punishment practices and draw out critiques around questions of power, identity, justice, and ethical responsibility.
Description based on print version record.
Criminal justice, Administration of
Punishment
Imprisonment
Capital punishment