'Thinking and Rethinking the Right to Die':Īn essay on the University of Chicago Press blog

Peggy Kamuf, co-editor of The Seminars of Jacques Derrida this book does not just shift the debate it turns it to face an utterly new, unknown direction, the only direction from which a future can come.' 'Scott Shershow is engaged here in practical deconstruction of the highest order and most compelling kind. Deconstructing Dignity brings the thought of deconstruction to bear on this debate to uncover the knot of unexamined assumptions at its core. The question of a “right to die” - or what is sometimes called euthanasia or assisted-suicide - remains today the subject of vexed legal, political, ethical and philosophic debates. Gary Hoppenstand, author of Clive Barker's Short Stories: Imagination as Metaphor in the Books of Blood and Other Worksĭeconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate A must have for anyone interested in Lovecraft or the field of dark fantasy.” Erudite, sophisticated, and insightful, this volume is a pure joy to read. “ The Love of Ruins ranks among the small handful of the very best Lovecraftian analyses. He is also the author of Bread from Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series (2016), Deconstructing Dignity: A Critique of the Right-to-Die Debate (2014), and of other essays and books on a variety of other topics in critical theory, popular culture, and early-modern theater. Cott Cutler Shershow's newest book is The Love of Ruins: Letters on Lovecraft, co-authored with Scott Michaelsen.

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