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In continuing the past years’ seminars (Pardon and Perjury), we will take up this year, under the heading of the unforgivable, the question of capital punishment.

We will start by studying its history, juridical and political dimensions, the present stakes of its abolishment (in the process of mondialisation, worldization, „globalization“, particularly in the United States). We would also analyse the „scene“, the history of its visibility and of its „public“ character generally, but also its representation in the arts of theatre, painting, photography, cinema and of course, literature.

Intertwined in this first approach will be two leading threads: the equivocal concepts of „cruelty“ and of „exception“, which play a determining role in juridical discourses (for and against death penalty).

On the horizon – the big question of sovereignty in general, of sovereignty of the State in particular.