Courting Death

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.

Contenu
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