The Ontology of Death

I think I am condemned to die. They had said I would be protected, but only on the grounds that, if necessary, I be executed. I think, therefore, I am condemned to die. Will this be the death of me? Is it already the death of me? Read this book.

I think I am condemned to die. They had said I would be protected, but only on the grounds that, if necessary, I be executed. I think, therefore, I am condemned to die. Will this be the death of me? Is it already the death of me? Read this book.

Wide-ranging in its literary and philosophical reference, and consistently perceptive in its close readings of fictional representations of the death penalty that challenge understandings of relation , Aaron Aquilina’s book offers compelling reflections on ‘thanatopolitics’ and the idea of ‘postsovereignty’. Finely styled and compellingly argued, this is an important volume in the expanding field of death studies.

Aaron Aquilina is a Resident Academic in the Department of English at the University of Malta, Malta. His work has been published in numerous journals, including Parallax, Textual Practice and Word and Text , in edited collections such as The Essay at the Limits , and he is the Founding General Editor of ' antae ', an open-access, refereed, and international online journal.