Abstract This introduction provides a brief context for the rebooting of the journal, including a history of the journal and the controversy that led to its reimagining, and offers brief synopses of the individual essays included within.

ABSTRACTThis essay examines the importance of decolonization theory/practice outside of Latinx and indigenous literatures to understand how the African diaspora has produced rhetorical and philosophical interventions that have been understudied and ignored. The books reviewed all contribute to understanding the limitations of Western, white humanism through the concepts: Black reason, the undercommons, racial liberalism, the idea of the spill, and ontological terror. These texts function as entrees into a deep excavation of the limits of Kantian freedom and Rawlsian justice that recenters anti-Blackness as an animating force of governmentality (particularly governmental structures and regimes that enforce possibilities of life and death), rhetorical invention, and philosophical engagement.

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Book Review| December 01 2015 Executing Democracy, volume 2, Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835–1843 Executing Democracy, volume 2, Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835–1843. By Stephen John Hartnett. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2012; pp. vii + 342. $59.95 cloth. Lisa M. Corrigan Lisa M. Corrigan University of Arkansas Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Rhetoric and Public Affairs (2015) 18 (4): 801–804. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0801 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Lisa M. Corrigan; Executing Democracy, volume 2, Capital Punishment and the Making of America, 1835–1843. Rhetoric and Public Affairs 1 December 2015; 18 (4): 801–804. doi: https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.18.4.0801 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveMichigan State University PressRhetoric and Public Affairs Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. © 2015 Michigan State University Board of Trustees. All rights reserved.2015 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.