The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century

by Shoshana Felman

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0674009517

ISBN13:9780674009516

Release Date:November 2002

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:272 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"

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Criticism & Theory Education & Reference History & Criticism Jurisprudence Law Legal Theory & Systems Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Literary Theory Literature Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Philosophy Psychoanalysis Psychology Social Sciences Textbooks

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