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5 Derrida at Montaigne: A Stay of Execution
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Published:July 2018
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This chapter focuses on the Eleventh Session of Derrida’s Death Penalty seminar. In this session Derrida pauses in his readings of post-Enlightenment abolitionist discourse to turn to the Essais of Michel de Montaigne, the sixteenth-century French philosopher whose famous tower library he had visited shortly before delivering this lecture on March 22, 2000. Derrida opens the session by quoting Montaigne in a manner he describes as “theatrical” and somewhat “violent,” before announcing: “Since I’m at Montaigne, I’m going to stay a while.” This chapter asks what this “stay at Montaigne” represents for Derrida, how it operates strategically in his deconstruction of the death penalty, and what specific force Montaigne represents for Derrida. The chapter also examines several passages in Montaigne’s Essais not discussed by Derrida in order to see how Montaigne’s Pyrrhonian-style skepticism offers a pre-Enlightenment model of opposition to capital punishment.
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