The Color of Transcendence: Whiteness, Sovereignty, and the Theologico-Political
This essay reads Jacques Derrida's analysis of the death penalty - which he interprets as the most fundamental instantiation of sovereign, theologico-political power over life and death - in relation to the whiteness that structures US carcerality. Elaborating upon Derrida's conception o...
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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: 137-156 |
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Derrida, Jacques 1930-2004
/ Foucault, Michel 1926-1984
/ Death penalty
/ Prison
/ Weißsein
/ Transcendence
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RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology VA Philosophy |
Further subjects: | B
Death Penalty
B Sovereignty B Book review B Transcendence B Derrida B carceral B theologico-political B Foucault B Whiteness |
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