About the book
Walter Benjamin wrote that death lends authority to storytellers. But how do processes derive their authority from death? This book offers a groundbreaking analysis of the interplay between trauma and jurisprudence.
Contents
From texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the trials of Dreyfus, Nuremberg, O. J. Simpson, and Adolf Eichmann, Shoshana Felman examines how legal proceedings shaped collective traumas in the twentieth century. These trials placed history itself in the dock and gave voice to the historically 'speechless' victims.
Felman reveals the juridical unconscious of trials and shows how it is interwoven with the logic of trauma that a trial seeks to contain, but often also repeats.
Application
- Language: Dutch
- Learning objective: insight into law, history, and trauma from an interdisciplinary perspective
- Suitable for: higher education, legal and cultural research
- Use: study, education, and self-study
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