Lida Maxwell

Public Trials

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

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 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, and still might be?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780190649845
• ISBN-10: 0190649844
• Artikelnr.: 47866356

Autorenporträt

Lida Maxwell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* 1. Public Trials and Lost Causes: The Politics of Democratic Failure
* 2. Justice, Sympathy, and Mourning in Burke's Impeachment of Warren
Hastings
* 3. A Public with a Taste for Truth: Zola's Literary Appeals to the
People during the Dreyfus Affair
* 4. Comedy and/of Justice?: Law, Politics, and Public Opinion in
Arendt's Writings on the Eichmann Trial
* 5. Toward a Democratic Conception of Justice
* Notes
* Index