The Juridical Unconscious: Trials and Traumas in the Twentieth Century

by Shoshana Felman

Book Overview

Death, wrote Walter Benjamin, lends storytellers all their authority. How do trials, in turn, borrow their authority from death? This book offers a groundbreaking account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice.

Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, as well as the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Shoshana Felman argues that the adjudication of collective...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674009517
• ISBN13: 9780674009516
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"