Public trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes
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| 505 | 8 | |a "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? Public Trials reveals the considerable stakes of how we understand democratic failure. Maxwell argues against a tendency in the thinking of Plato, Rousseau and contemporary theorists to view moments of democratic failure as indicative of the failure of democracy, insomuch as such thinking leads to a deference to authority that unintentionally encourages complicity in elite and legal failures to assure justice. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a In contrast, what Maxwell calls "lost cause narratives" of democratic failure reveal the contingency of democratic failure by showing that things "could have been" otherwise-and, with public action and response, might yet be. A politics of lost causes calls for democratic responsiveness to failure via practices of resistance, theatrical claims-making, and re-narration. Maxwell makes a powerful case for the politics of lost causes by examining public controversies over trials. She focuses on the dilemmas and diagnoses of democratic failure in four instances: Edmund Burke's speeches and writings on the Warren Hastings trial in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair in late 19th century France, Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial in 1960's Israel, and Kathryn Bigelow's recent narration of (the lack of) trials of alleged terrorist detainees in Zero Dark Thirty. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Maxwell marshals her subtle, historically grounded readings of these texts to show the dangers of despairing of democracy altogether, as well as the necessity of re-narrating instances of democratic failure so as to cultivate public responsiveness to such failures in the future"-- | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Public Trials and Lost Causes: The Politics of Democratic Failure -- Chapter 2: Justice, Sympathy, and Mourning in Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings -- Chapter 3: A Public with a Taste for Truth: Zola's Literary Appeals to the People during the Dreyfus Affair -- Chapter 4: Comedy and/of Justice?: Law, Politics, and Public Opinion in Arendt's Writings on the Eichmann Trial -- Chapter 5: Toward a Democratic Conception of Justice -- Notes -- Index | |
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| contents | "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? Public Trials reveals the considerable stakes of how we understand democratic failure. Maxwell argues against a tendency in the thinking of Plato, Rousseau and contemporary theorists to view moments of democratic failure as indicative of the failure of democracy, insomuch as such thinking leads to a deference to authority that unintentionally encourages complicity in elite and legal failures to assure justice. In contrast, what Maxwell calls "lost cause narratives" of democratic failure reveal the contingency of democratic failure by showing that things "could have been" otherwise-and, with public action and response, might yet be. A politics of lost causes calls for democratic responsiveness to failure via practices of resistance, theatrical claims-making, and re-narration. Maxwell makes a powerful case for the politics of lost causes by examining public controversies over trials. She focuses on the dilemmas and diagnoses of democratic failure in four instances: Edmund Burke's speeches and writings on the Warren Hastings trial in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair in late 19th century France, Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial in 1960's Israel, and Kathryn Bigelow's recent narration of (the lack of) trials of alleged terrorist detainees in Zero Dark Thirty. Maxwell marshals her subtle, historically grounded readings of these texts to show the dangers of despairing of democracy altogether, as well as the necessity of re-narrating instances of democratic failure so as to cultivate public responsiveness to such failures in the future"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Public Trials and Lost Causes: The Politics of Democratic Failure -- Chapter 2: Justice, Sympathy, and Mourning in Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings -- Chapter 3: A Public with a Taste for Truth: Zola's Literary Appeals to the People during the Dreyfus Affair -- Chapter 4: Comedy and/of Justice?: Law, Politics, and Public Opinion in Arendt's Writings on the Eichmann Trial -- Chapter 5: Toward a Democratic Conception of Justice -- Notes -- Index |
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| spelling | Maxwell, Lida Verfasser aut Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes Lida Maxwell New York, NY Oxford University Press 2014 1 online resource txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Print version record "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? Public Trials reveals the considerable stakes of how we understand democratic failure. Maxwell argues against a tendency in the thinking of Plato, Rousseau and contemporary theorists to view moments of democratic failure as indicative of the failure of democracy, insomuch as such thinking leads to a deference to authority that unintentionally encourages complicity in elite and legal failures to assure justice. In contrast, what Maxwell calls "lost cause narratives" of democratic failure reveal the contingency of democratic failure by showing that things "could have been" otherwise-and, with public action and response, might yet be. A politics of lost causes calls for democratic responsiveness to failure via practices of resistance, theatrical claims-making, and re-narration. Maxwell makes a powerful case for the politics of lost causes by examining public controversies over trials. She focuses on the dilemmas and diagnoses of democratic failure in four instances: Edmund Burke's speeches and writings on the Warren Hastings trial in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair in late 19th century France, Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial in 1960's Israel, and Kathryn Bigelow's recent narration of (the lack of) trials of alleged terrorist detainees in Zero Dark Thirty. Maxwell marshals her subtle, historically grounded readings of these texts to show the dangers of despairing of democracy altogether, as well as the necessity of re-narrating instances of democratic failure so as to cultivate public responsiveness to such failures in the future"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Public Trials and Lost Causes: The Politics of Democratic Failure -- Chapter 2: Justice, Sympathy, and Mourning in Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings -- Chapter 3: A Public with a Taste for Truth: Zola's Literary Appeals to the People during the Dreyfus Affair -- Chapter 4: Comedy and/of Justice?: Law, Politics, and Public Opinion in Arendt's Writings on the Eichmann Trial -- Chapter 5: Toward a Democratic Conception of Justice -- Notes -- Index Hastings, Warren / 1732-1818 Burke, Edmund / 1730-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred Stanley / (Alfred) / 1859-1935 Zola, Émile / (Émile Édouard Charles Antoine) / 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf / 1906-1962 Arendt, Hannah / 1906-1975 Hastings, Warren 1732-1818 Trials, litigation, etc Burke, Edmund 1729-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred 1859-1935 Trials, litigation, etc Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf 1906-1962 Trials, litigation, etc Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory bisacsh LAW / Public bisacsh PHILOSOPHY / Political bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference bisacsh Philosophie Democracy Philosophy Justice, Administration of Philosophy Politische Philosophie (DE-588)4076226-9 gnd rswk-swf Demokratie (DE-588)4011413-2 gnd rswk-swf Prozess (DE-588)4047577-3 gnd rswk-swf Demokratie (DE-588)4011413-2 s Politische Philosophie (DE-588)4076226-9 s Prozess (DE-588)4047577-3 s 1\p DE-604 Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Maxwell, Lida Public trials http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=856012 Aggregator Volltext 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
| spellingShingle | Maxwell, Lida Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes "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? Public Trials reveals the considerable stakes of how we understand democratic failure. Maxwell argues against a tendency in the thinking of Plato, Rousseau and contemporary theorists to view moments of democratic failure as indicative of the failure of democracy, insomuch as such thinking leads to a deference to authority that unintentionally encourages complicity in elite and legal failures to assure justice. In contrast, what Maxwell calls "lost cause narratives" of democratic failure reveal the contingency of democratic failure by showing that things "could have been" otherwise-and, with public action and response, might yet be. A politics of lost causes calls for democratic responsiveness to failure via practices of resistance, theatrical claims-making, and re-narration. Maxwell makes a powerful case for the politics of lost causes by examining public controversies over trials. She focuses on the dilemmas and diagnoses of democratic failure in four instances: Edmund Burke's speeches and writings on the Warren Hastings trial in late 18th century Britain, Emile Zola's writings on the Dreyfus Affair in late 19th century France, Hannah Arendt's writings on the Eichmann trial in 1960's Israel, and Kathryn Bigelow's recent narration of (the lack of) trials of alleged terrorist detainees in Zero Dark Thirty. Maxwell marshals her subtle, historically grounded readings of these texts to show the dangers of despairing of democracy altogether, as well as the necessity of re-narrating instances of democratic failure so as to cultivate public responsiveness to such failures in the future"-- Machine generated contents note: -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Public Trials and Lost Causes: The Politics of Democratic Failure -- Chapter 2: Justice, Sympathy, and Mourning in Burke's Impeachment of Warren Hastings -- Chapter 3: A Public with a Taste for Truth: Zola's Literary Appeals to the People during the Dreyfus Affair -- Chapter 4: Comedy and/of Justice?: Law, Politics, and Public Opinion in Arendt's Writings on the Eichmann Trial -- Chapter 5: Toward a Democratic Conception of Justice -- Notes -- Index Hastings, Warren / 1732-1818 Burke, Edmund / 1730-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred Stanley / (Alfred) / 1859-1935 Zola, Émile / (Émile Édouard Charles Antoine) / 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf / 1906-1962 Arendt, Hannah / 1906-1975 Hastings, Warren 1732-1818 Trials, litigation, etc Burke, Edmund 1729-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred 1859-1935 Trials, litigation, etc Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf 1906-1962 Trials, litigation, etc Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory bisacsh LAW / Public bisacsh PHILOSOPHY / Political bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference bisacsh Philosophie Democracy Philosophy Justice, Administration of Philosophy Politische Philosophie (DE-588)4076226-9 gnd Demokratie (DE-588)4011413-2 gnd Prozess (DE-588)4047577-3 gnd |
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| title | Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes |
| title_auth | Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes |
| title_exact_search | Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes |
| title_full | Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes Lida Maxwell |
| title_fullStr | Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes Lida Maxwell |
| title_full_unstemmed | Public trials Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes Lida Maxwell |
| title_short | Public trials |
| title_sort | public trials burke zola arendt and the politics of lost causes |
| title_sub | Burke, Zola, Arendt, and the politics of lost causes |
| topic | Hastings, Warren / 1732-1818 Burke, Edmund / 1730-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred Stanley / (Alfred) / 1859-1935 Zola, Émile / (Émile Édouard Charles Antoine) / 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf / 1906-1962 Arendt, Hannah / 1906-1975 Hastings, Warren 1732-1818 Trials, litigation, etc Burke, Edmund 1729-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred 1859-1935 Trials, litigation, etc Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf 1906-1962 Trials, litigation, etc Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory bisacsh LAW / Public bisacsh PHILOSOPHY / Political bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National bisacsh POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference bisacsh Philosophie Democracy Philosophy Justice, Administration of Philosophy Politische Philosophie (DE-588)4076226-9 gnd Demokratie (DE-588)4011413-2 gnd Prozess (DE-588)4047577-3 gnd |
| topic_facet | Hastings, Warren / 1732-1818 Burke, Edmund / 1730-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred Stanley / (Alfred) / 1859-1935 Zola, Émile / (Émile Édouard Charles Antoine) / 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf / 1906-1962 Arendt, Hannah / 1906-1975 Hastings, Warren 1732-1818 Trials, litigation, etc Burke, Edmund 1729-1797 Dreyfus, Alfred 1859-1935 Trials, litigation, etc Zola, Émile 1840-1902 Eichmann, Adolf 1906-1962 Trials, litigation, etc Arendt, Hannah 1906-1975 POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory LAW / Public PHILOSOPHY / Political POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference Philosophie Democracy Philosophy Justice, Administration of Philosophy Politische Philosophie Demokratie Prozess |
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