Description |
1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) |
Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Storyteller's silence : Walter Benjamin's dilemma of justice -- Forms of judicial blindness, or the evidence of what cannot be seen : traumatic narratives and legal repetitions in the O.J. Simpson case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata -- Theaters of justice : Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann trial, and the redefinition of legal meaning in the wake of the Holocaust -- Ghost in the house of justice : death and the language of the law |
Summary |
"Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death? This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, as well as the trials of O.J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Shoshana Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the twentieth century transformed both culture and law. This transformation took place through legal cases that put history itself on trial, and that provided a stage for the expression of the persecuted--the historically 'expressionless.' Examining legal events that tried to repair the crimes and injuries of history, Felman reveals the 'juridical unconscious' of trials and brilliantly shows how this juridical unconscious is bound up with the logic of the trauma that a trial attempts to articulate and contain but so often reenacts and repeats. Her book gives the drama of the law a new jurisprudential dimension and reveals the relation between law and literature in a new light."-- Provided by publisher |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-243) and index |
Notes |
Shoshana Felman is the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Her books include Testimony: Crises of Witnessing in Literature, Psychoanalysis and History |
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SUBJECT |
Eichmann, Adolf, 1906-1962. (NL-LeOCL)069665907 nta |
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Simpson, O.J. , 1947-. (NL-LeOCL)13447001X nta |
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Trials -- History -- 20th century -- Psychological aspects
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Law in literature.
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LAW -- Jurisprudence.
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Law in literature
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Law -- Psychological aspects
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Trials -- Psychological aspects
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Literatur
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Rechtsprechung
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Strafverfahren
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Psychisches Trauma
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Processen (rechtspraak)
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Recht.
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Letterkunde.
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Psychologische aspecten.
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86.07 psychology of law.
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17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.
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Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Trials -- History -- 20th century -- Psychological aspects.
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Law in literature.
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2002068521 |
ISBN |
9780674971295 |
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0674971299 |
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