{"product_id":"death-and-other-penalties-philosophy-in-a-time-of-mass-incarceration-9780823265299","title":"Death and Other Penalties  Philosophy in a Time of Mass Incarceration","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA collection of essays by diverse group of scholars who analyze issues raised by the U.S. prison system. Authors critique the racist, sexist, heterosexist, ableist, and economic injustices that uphold mass incarceration, practices of solitary confinement, and capital punishment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a crucially important work, one that while centering on philosophy far exceeds the bounds of the discipline, reaching out toward the concrete to grapple not just with a, but the question of our moment in ways that are both practical and rigorous.\" -- -George Ciccariello-Maher Drexel University \"What does it mean to live in what Wacquant has called 'the first genuine prison society in history' and to be caught in the grip of a carceral state, economy, and public imaginary? What does philosophy, or rather philosophers, have to say about what this cancer growing in the very viscera of democracy: racialized, systematic, and capillary massive imprisonment? Perhaps philosophy itself has been imprisoned by its silence about this societal crisis. This anthology brings together philosophers, prison activists, former and present prisoners, to offer what are unquestionably the most thorough, insightful and incisive analyses of the origins and nefarious effects that the prison industrial complex has on our imprisoned democracy. Ranging across the philosophical corpus, from Nietzsche through Davis to Derrida, the contributors put philosophy to work on behalf of abolitionism, decarceration and reconstruction. The editors, however, have more than saved the honor of philosophy by having it address one of our most pressing yet invisible problems we face; they have given us a work that established a new benchmark. Henceforth, we must begin with this text if we are to think about racial justice and the democracy to come that the abolition of slavery promised but that at the very moment of its birth was compromised. There will be no racial democracy without abolition democracy. This is the new imperative that W.E.B. DuBois enunciated nearly a century ago, but which has become more urgent in our time.\" -- -Eduardo Mendieta Stony Brook University \"Death and Other Penalties: Philosophical Interventions in a Time of Mass Incarceration is a brilliant collection of articles that draw on continental philosophers in order to consider the prison industrial complex, the death penalty in the United States, and the intersecting oppressions of racism, ableism, classism, sexism and heterosexism that are at work in these institutions and practices. The articles are innovative and accessible.\" -- -Chloe Taylor University of Alberta\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents      Introduction: Death and Other Penalties      Geoffrey Adelsberg, Lisa Guenther, and Scott Zeman 1       Part I. Legacies of Slavery      Excavating the Sedimentations of Slavery: The Unfinished Project of American Abolition      Brady Heiner 000      From Commodity Fetishism to Prison Fetishism: Slavery, Convict-leasing, and the Ideological Productions of Incarceration      James Manos 000      Maroon Philosophy: An Interview with Russell Maroon Shoatz      Russell Maroon Shoatz 000       Part II. Death Penalties      In Reality-from the Row      Derrick Quintero 000      Inheritances of the Death Penalty: American Racism and Derrida's Theologico-Political Sovereignty      Geoffrey Adelsberg 000      Making Death a Penalty: Or, Making \"Good\" Death a \"Good\" Penalty      Kelly Oliver 000      Death Penalty Abolition in Neoliberal Times: The SAFE California Act and the Nexus of Savings and Security      Andrew Dilts 000      On the Inviolability of Human Life      Julia Kristeva (translated by Lisa Walsh) 000       Part III. Rethinking Power and Responsibility       Punishment, Desert, and Equality: A Levinasian Analysis      Benjamin S. Yost 000      Prisons and Palliative Politics      Ami Harbin 000      Sovereignty, Community, and the Incarceration of Immigrants       Matt S. Whitt 000      Without the Right to Exist: Mass Incarceration and National Security      Andrea Smith 000      Prison Abolition and a Culture of Sexual Difference      Sarah Tyson 000       Part IV. Isolation and Resistance       Statement on Solitary Confinement      Abu Ali Abdur'Rahman 000      The Violence of the Supermax: Toward a Phenomenological Aesthetics of Prison Space      Adrian Switzer 000      Prison and the Subject of Resistance: A Levinasian Inquiry      Shokoufeh Sakhi 000      Critical Theory, Queer Resistance, and the Ends of Capture       Liat Ben-Moshe, Che Gossett, Nick Mitchell, and Eric A. Stanley 000       Notes 000      List of Contributors 000      Index 000","brand":"ME - Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768192434519,"sku":"9780823265299","price":92.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823265299.jpg?v=1758716783","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/death-and-other-penalties-philosophy-in-a-time-of-mass-incarceration-9780823265299","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}