EL SUICIDIO EN LA HOGUERA. CAMUS Y LA PENA CAPITAL

Iván Trujillo

doi:10.15691/0718-5448Vol7Iss2a205

SUICIDE BY FIRE. CAMUS AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

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Iván Trujillo Universidad Alberto Hurtado, Santiago

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol7Iss2a205

Keywords:

capital punishment, suicide, anti-intelectualism, public space, sovereignty

Abstract

Albert Camus' opposition to death penalty is well known. In his Reflexions sur la guillotine (1957) he will criticize the judicial machinery that makes the sentenced to death suffer in time and space. Before, in L'homme revolté (1951), he criticized the perverse rousseaunian contractual logic implied in the auto-imputation that silently drives Saint-Just to the gallows during The Terror in France and the sentenced to death in the purges of Stalin's Soviet Union. But, a few years earlier, in The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), referring to suicide, he mentions Galileo and the danger he was in to be burned alive for defending the truth of his ideas. It is asked here for what, in Camus' thought, turns capital punishment in suicide.

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2018-08-01

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Vol. 7 No. 2 (2013)

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Trujillo, Iván. 2018. “SUICIDE BY FIRE. CAMUS AND CAPITAL PUNISHMENT”. Síntesis. Philosophy Journal 7 (2): 20-26. https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol7Iss2a205.