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Author(s):	Aaron Aquilina

Date:	2024	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	1350339482
Pages:	236	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heideggers 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 Heideggers 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 subjects 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,
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