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7%OFFYasco Horsman - Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo - 9780804770323 - V9780804770323
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Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

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Description for Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo Paperback. Through an analysis of philosophical and literary texts by Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht and Charlotte Delbo, Theaters of Justice raises the question: how does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial both facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 14. Weight in Grams: 320.

What role do legal trials have in collective processes of coming to terms with a history of mass violence? How does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past? This study begins with the widely publicized, historic trials of three Nazi war criminals, Eichmann, Barbie, and Priebke, whose explicit goal was not only to punish, but also to establish an officially sanctioned version of the past. The Truth and Reconciliation commissions in South America and South Africa added a therapeutic goal, acting on the belief that a trial can ... Read more

Horsman challenges this belief by reading works that reflect on the relations among pedagogy, therapy, and legal trials. Philosopher Hannah Arendt, poet Charlotte Delbo, and dramaturg Bertolt Brecht all produced responses to historic trials that reopened the cases those trials sought to close, bringing to center stage aspects that had escaped the confines of their legal frameworks.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Series
Cultural Memory in the Present
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804770323
SKU
V9780804770323
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-50

About Yasco Horsman
Yasco Horsman is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Leiden University's Institute for Cultural Disciplines.

Reviews for Theaters of Justice: Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo
"Yasco Horsman's Theaters of Justice, expansive in its range and scope and populated with articulate and careful readings, is vivifying for the field. . . When Horsman seeks to characterize working through the past not as a means of closure but as a didactic event, one that escapes legal symbolization but enables mourning and lamentation, he is at his best. ... Read more

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