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The juridical unconscious : trials and traumas in the twentieth century /

"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 t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Felman, Shoshana (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.