Public trials : Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes /

"There are certain moments, such as the American founding or the Civil Rights Movement, that we revisit again and again as instances of democratic triumph, and there are other moments that haunt us as instances of democratic failure. How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both...

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Hlavní autor: Maxwell, Lida
Médium: Printed Book
Jazyk:English
Vydáno: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Témata:
Hastings, Warren, > 1732-1818 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Burke, Edmund, > 1729-1797.
Dreyfus, Alfred, > 1859-1935 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Zola, Emile, > 1840-1902.
Eichmann, Adolf, > 1906-1962 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Arendt, Hannah, > 1906-1975.
Democracy > Philosophy.
Justice, Administration of > Philosophy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory.
LAW / Public.
PHILOSOPHY / Political.
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  • Acknowledgments
  • Chapter 1: Public Trials and Lost Causes: The Politics of Democratic Failure
  • Chapter 2: Justice, Sympathy, and Mourning in Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings
  • Chapter 3: A Public with a Taste for Truth: Zola's Literary Appeals to the People during the Dreyfus Affair
  • Chapter 4: Comedy and/of Justice?: Law, Politics, and Public Opinion in Arendt's Writings on the Eichmann Trial
  • Chapter 5: Toward a Democratic Conception of Justice
  • Notes
  • Index.

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