Maxwell,Lida

Public trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt and the politics of lost causes - Oxford University Press 2017 - xiii, 235p.

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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. 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, and still might be?

9780190649845


Philosophy Democracy --Justice--Law--Public Trials

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