Political Theology of Abolitionism: Beyond the Death Penalty
Abolitionist has caught on, in the United States, as an identity for leftist political activists. Today's abolitionists grow out of a movement to oppose mass incarceration that itself is related to an earlier movement to oppose the death penalty, but in its current usage abolitionist sugges...
| Published in: | Political theology |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2018]
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Political theology
Year: 2018, Volume: 19, Issue: 2, Pages: 120-136 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Death penalty
/ Abolition of
/ Political movement
/ Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
/ Political theology
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| RelBib Classification: | CG Christianity and Politics KBQ North America VA Philosophy ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Death Penalty
B Book review B Mass Incarceration B Secularization B Jacques Derrida B Abolitionism |
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Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Abolitionist has caught on, in the United States, as an identity for leftist political activists. Today's abolitionists grow out of a movement to oppose mass incarceration that itself is related to an earlier movement to oppose the death penalty, but in its current usage abolitionist suggests an opposition to multiple, interlinked systems of oppression. Jacques Derrida argues that death penalty abolitionists are best understood as opposing, and constituted by, political theology. Does the same apply when abolitionism is understood more broadly, as it is today? This paper explicates the meaning of abolitionist in left political circles today, summarizes Derrida's argument about the political theology of abolitionism, and concludes that some, but not all, aspects of Derrida's argument are applicable to today's abolitionists. |
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| Item Description: | Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 1-2 February-March 2018" |
| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2018.1440161 |