Theaters of Justice - Judging, Staging, and Working Through in Arendt, Brecht, and Delbo

Through an analysis of philosophical and literary texts by Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht and Charlotte Delbo, "Theaters of Justice" raises the question: how does the "theatrical" structure of a criminal trial both facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past?

About the author

Yasco Horsman is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Leiden University's Institute for Cultural Disciplines.

Summary

Through an analysis of philosophical and literary texts by Hannah Arendt, Bertolt Brecht and Charlotte Delbo, Theaters of Justice raises the question: how does the theatrical structure of a criminal trial both facilitate and limit national processes of healing and learning from the past?

Product details

• Authors: Vasco Horsman, Yasco Horsman
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.12.2010
• EAN: 9780804770323
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7032-3
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies