Publications [#380597] of Kevin Hart

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

1. Hart, K. "Derrida on Law and Blood." Studies in Christian Ethics 33.1SAGE Publications, (February, 2020): 107-115. [doi]
   (last updated on 2025/06/16)

   Abstract:
   In his lectures on the death penalty Jacques Derrida argues the surprising thesis that ‘no philosophical system as such has ever been able rationally to oppose the death penalty’. And he also entertains a second thesis that juridical execution undergirds the legal system. In his support for abolitionism, Derrida participates in ‘philosophy’ without quite belonging there. In fact, he maintains that juridical execution comes into sharper focus only when we pass from philosophy to theology. There is space for further passage in this direction, perhaps, in exploring the Eucharist as ‘unbloody sacrifice’. It is regrettable that the second thesis is insufficiently established.