Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty
Killing Times: The Temporal Technology of the Death Penalty
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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.
Author: David Wills
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780823283491
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2019
Author: David Wills
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 03/05/2019
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780823283491
Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2019
About the Author
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, Dorsality, and Inanimation. He has translated various works by Jacques Derrida, including Theory and Practice.