| Description |
1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Performativity and Performance -- Performativity and Errancy -- Rethinking the Politics of Trials -- Law and Violence: An Oblique Address -- Part I: A Performative Theory of Political Trials -- 1. Theorizing Political Trials -- Kirchheimer: Setting the Parameters -- Judgment on Nuremberg -- Arendt: A Trial of One's Own? -- The Breach That Speaks the Bind -- Shklar: "There's Politics and Politics" -- Between Atrocity and Legal Violence |
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2. The Form and Substance of Doing Justice: Law, Performativity, Performance -- Not a Profound Word -- Law and Performativity -- Masquerade and Fate -- The Trial: Performativity and Performance -- 3. Sovereign Infelicities -- Three Scenes -- Sovereign Spectacles -- Sovereign Performatives? -- (Mis)Reading the Performative as Performance -- Derrida's Austin: Sovereign Pretensions -- Performing the (Structural) Unconscious -- Undoing Sovereignty -- Part II: Tracing the Specters in the Spectacles -- 4. Ghosts in the Courtroom: The Trial of Soghomon Tehlirian -- Talat -- Tehlirian -- Enter Ghost |
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The Telegrams -- The Haunted Hunter -- The Many Lives of Tehlirian -- The Politics of Haunting -- 5. Spectral Legacies: Legal Aftermaths of the Armenian Genocide -- Legal Returns -- Atemporal Histories of Terror -- Process unto Oblivion -- "Genocide" as Counter-Memory -- 6. Law of Denial: The Armenian Genocide before the European Court of Human Rights -- The Envoy -- The Judge, The Historian, and the Politician -- Judging the Presence of the Past -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1531501877 |
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9781531501877 |
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