ISBN: 9780674009516

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 surprisin… More...

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. New Textbooks>Trade Paperback>Reference>Legal Reference>Legal Reference, Harvard University Press Core >1 >T<

ISBN: 9780674009516

Paperback / softback. New. This book offers an account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dr… More...

Paperback / softback. New. This book offers an 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, and the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the 20th century transformed both culture and law., 6<

2002, ISBN: 9780674009516

Harvard University Press, 2002-11-30. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!, Harvard University Press, 2002-11-30, 6

2002, ISBN: 0674009517

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