Furman and Finitude
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This chapter argues that the United States Supreme Court’s death penalty jurisprudence provides an unlikely supplement to Derrida’s analysis, one that both supports and extends it. This jurisprudence recapitulates with remarkable fidelity the aporetic relationship of law and justice Derrida proposed in “Force of Law,” and thus allows Derrida’s death penalty seminar to be situated within his other writings on law. Beyond that, the Supreme Court’s crypto-Derridian analysis suggests a response to Derrida’s desire for an abolitionism that breaks with the death penalty’s “invincible phantasm,” even while remaining under shadow of that phantasm.
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pp. 21-26
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Vol 9
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