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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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2002.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of 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.