Courting Death

The Law of Mortality

Edited by Desmond Manderson

Publication date:

20 September 1999

Length of book:

288 pages

Publisher

Pluto Press

ISBN-13: 9781849640190

BOOK DESCRIPTION
TABLE OF CONTENTS

This collection deals with complex issues relating to death such as ‘mercy killings’, the ‘right to die’ and murder. the relationship will always be controversial. This timely and provocative collection brings together scholars from Australia, Britain and the US.

Introduction: Tales from the Crypt: A Metaphor, An Image, A Story
Desmond Manderson

Part One: In Extremis

1. Death as the Horizon of Law
Peter Fitzpatrick

2. Et Lex Perpetua: Dying Declarations and the Terror of Süssmayr
Desmond Manderson

3. Killing Me Softly: Capital Punishment and the Technologies for Taking Life
Austin Sarat

4. The Sanctity of Death: Poetry and the Law and Ethics of Euthanasia
Melanie Williams
Part Two: Post Mortem

5. But a Lump of Earth: The Legal Status of the Corpse
Ngaire Naffine

6. Bodily Remains in the Cemetery and the Burial Ground: A Comparative Anthropology of Law and Death
Prue Vines

7. Did He Fall or Was He Pushed? Inquiring Into Pitjantjatjara Deaths
Jon Willis

8. Pro Patria Mori: Law, Reconciliation, and the Nation
Scott Veitch
Part Three: Momento Mori

9. Law Deathbound: Antigone and the Dialectics of Nomos and Thanatos
Costas Douzinas

10. The Ethical Obligation to Show Allegiance to the Un-knowable
Marinos Diamantides

11. Stephen Dedalus’ Magic Words: Death and the Law Between James Joyce & Pierre Legendre
Adam Gearey

12. Courting Death
Peter Goodrich

Contributors’ Notes

Index