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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? 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. Public Trials looks at the writings of three theorists who diagnosed moments of the latter type: Edmund Burke's writings on Warren Hastings's impeachment in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair, and Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial. All three claimed that law and legal officials failed to do full justice to the new crimes they confronted - Hastings's imperial oppression of Indians, the French government's

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Zařazení knihy Knihy v angličtině Society & social sciences Politics & government Political structure & processes

• Plný název: Public Trials
• Podnázev: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the Politics of Lost Causes
• Autor: Lida Maxwell
• Jazyk: Angličtina
• Vazba: Pevná
• Počet stran: 256
• EAN: 9780199383740
• ISBN: 019938374X
• ID: 05133954
• Nakladatelství: Oxford University Press Inc
• Hmotnost: 486 g
• Rozměry: 243 × 159 × 23 mm
• Datum vydání: 15. January 2015

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