Książka Public Trials Lida Maxwell

Public Trials

Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes

Autor: Lida Maxwell
Język: Angielski
Oprawa: Twarda
Dostępność: Dostępna u dostawcy
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How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both the law and citizens forsake justice? Do...

Informacje o książce

Autor
Język
Angielski
Oprawa
Książka - Twarda
Data wydania
2015
strony
256
EAN
9780199383740
ISBN
019938374X
Enbook ID
05133954
Waga
486
Wymiary
159 x 243 x 23

Pełny opis

How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both the law and citizens forsake justice? Do such moments reveal a wholesale failure of democracy or a more contested failing, pointing to what could have been? 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. Public Trials looks at the writings of three theorists who diagnosed moments of the latter type: Edmund Burke's writings on Warren Hastings's impeachment in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair, and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial. All three claimed that law and legal officials failed to do full justice to the new crimes they confronted - Hastings's imperial oppression of Indians, the French government's

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