"Originally published as Seminaire: La peine de mort, vol. 1 (1999-2000). 2012 Editions Galilee"--Title page verso.

Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) was director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, and professor of humanities at the University of California, Irvine. Several of his books have been published in their English translation by the University of Chicago Press.