Physical Description
viii, 253 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Storyteller's silence : Walter Benjamin's dilemma of justice
Forms of judicial blindness, or the evidence of what cannot be seen : traumatic narratives and legal repetitions in the O.J. Simpson case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata
Theaters of justice : Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann trial, and the redefinition of legal meaning in the wake of the Holocaust
Ghost in the house of justice : death and the language of the law.
ISBN
0674009312
0674009517 (paper : alk. paper)
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-243) and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Storyteller's silence : Walter Benjamin's dilemma of justice -- Forms of judicial blindness, or the evidence of what cannot be seen : traumatic narratives and legal repetitions in the O.J. Simpson case and in Tolstoy's The Kreutzer sonata -- Theaters of justice : Arendt in Jerusalem, the Eichmann trial, and the redefinition of legal meaning in the wake of the Holocaust -- Ghost in the house of justice : death and the language of the law.
