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020 _a9780190649845
082 _a320.011
_bMAX-P
100 _aMaxwell,Lida
245 _aPublic trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt and the politics of lost causes
260 _bOxford University Press
_c2017
300 _axiii, 235p.
504 _aInclude Index
520 _aThere 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?
650 _aPhilosophy Democracy
_vJustice
_vLaw
_vPublic Trials
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