Technologies of Life and Death: From Cloning to Capital Punishment

Acknowledgments

a c k n o w l e d g m e n t s I would like to thank my research assistants over the last several years, Melinda Hall, Juliana Lewis, Alison Suen, and Erin Tarver, who went beyond the call of duty in helping me prepare this manuscript. Thanks to Elissa Marder and Steven Miller for helpful comments on an earlier draft; the book is better for their suggestions. Thanks to Kas Saghafi, organizer of the 2011 Spindel Conference on Derrida and the death penalty, for inviting my participation, which inspired the chapter on animals and capital punishment. As always, thanks to Benigno, Yuki, Hurri, and Mayo for their companionship . ix Technologies of Life and Death ...