Derrida on the Death Penalty

By Arne De Boever, Jan MieszkowskiMarch 5, 2014

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Today, a review of the latest volume of Jacques Derrida's seminars to be published, The Death Penalty, Volume I, and an interview with the translator of the book, and co-editor of the series, Peggy Kamuf.

Jan Mieszkowski

on The Death Penalty,

LARB Contributors

Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts, where he also directs the MA Aesthetics and Politics program. He is the author of States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel (2012) and Narrative Care (2013) and editor of Gilbert Simondon: Being and Technology (2012) and The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism: Vol. 1 (2013). He edits Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy and the critical theory/philosophy section of the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also a member of the boundary 2 collective and an Advisory Editor for the Oxford Literary Review.

Jan Mieszkowski is professor of German and Comparative Literature at Reed College. He is the author of Watching War (2012) and Labors of Imagination: Aesthetics and Political Economy from Kant to Althusser (2006).