Name: The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature (en Inglés)
SKU: 59256091
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Author: Aquilina, Aaron
ISBN: 9781350339521

portada The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature (en Inglés)

The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Aaron Aquilina

Editorial

Bloomsbury Academic

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4x15.6x2.5 cm

Peso

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781350339521

Categorías

Cuestiones éticas: pena capital
Sociología de la muerte y el morir
Filosofía social y política

The Ontology of Death: The Philosophy of the Death Penalty in Literature (en Inglés)

Aaron Aquilina (Autor) · Bloomsbury Academic · Tapa Blanda

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Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger's concept of 'being-towards-death' and proposes a new understanding of the political and philosophical subject. Dickens, Nabokov, Hugo, Sophocles and many others explore capital punishment in their works, from Antigone to Invitation to a Beheading. Using these varied case studies, Aquilina demonstrates how they all highlight two aspects of the experience. First, they uncover a particular state of being, or more precisely non-being, that comes with a death sentence, and, second, they reveal how this state exists beyond death row, as sovereignty and alterity are by no means confined to a prison cell. In contrast to Heidegger's being-towards-death, which individualizes the subject - only I can die my own death, supposedly - this book argues that, when condemned to death, the self and death collide, putting under erasure the category of subjectivity itself. Be it death row or not, when the supposed futurity of death is brought into the here and now, we encounter what Aquilina calls 'relational death'. Living on with death severs the subject's relation to itself, the other and political sociality as a whole, rendering the human less a named and recognizable 'being' than an anonymous 'living corpse', a human thing. In a sustained engagement with Blanchot, Levinas, Hegel, Agamben and Derrida, The Ontology of Death articulates a new theory of the subject, beyond political subjectivity defined by sovereignty and beyond the Heideggerian notion of ontological selfhood.