Lida Maxwell

Public Trials

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

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Produktbeschreibung

In Public Trials, Lida Maxwell examines the problem of democratic failure - the failure of law and the people to assure justice - in the context of Edmund Burke's writings on the Hastings trial, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair, and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• 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