DERRIDA APIE MIRTIES BAUSMĘ: PRIEIGOS KLAUSIMAS
DERRIDA ON THE DEATH PENALTY: THE QUESTION OF APPROACH

Summary/Abstract: This article discusses the question, whether and in what sense the critique of the death penalty by Jacques Derrida is still relevant today. In recent years, significant changes have taken place in political and religious life, which gives the impression that the issue of abolition of the death penalty has largely been resolved, so this problem is marginal and it is important only for the inhabitants of uncivilized, dictatorial countries. Contrary to this approach, the article states that Derridean critique of the death penalty remains relevant due to the extent and nature of his questions. The article aims to show that Derrida’s analysis of the texts of Immanuel Kant and Martin Heidegger allows the issue of the death penalty to be reconsidered in the context of the fundamental problems of Western philosophy, such as the question of the human, the question of what is proper to human, and the question of the principle of reason.

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