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Juridical Unconscious Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century
by Felman, Shoshana
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- Comments: 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...
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- ISBN-13: 9780674009516
- ISBN: 0674009517
- Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr
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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, this text argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the 20th century transformed both culture and law.Felman, Shoshana is the author of 'Juridical Unconscious Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century' with ISBN 9780674009516 and ISBN 0674009517.
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