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Spectacles and Specters A Performative Theory of Political Trials.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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