The Judicial Imagination : : Writing After Nuremberg / / Lyndsey Stonebridge.
Tells the story of the struggle to imagine new forms of justice after Nuremberg.Returning to the work of Hannah Arendt as a theoretical starting point, Lyndsey Stonebridge traces an aesthetics of judgement in postwar writers and intellectuals, including including Rebecca West, Elizabeth Bowen, Murie...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 2 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction. Gathering Ashes: The Judicial Imagination in the Age of Trauma
- Part I: Writing After Nuremberg
- 1. ‘An event that did not become an experience’: Rebecca West’s Nuremberg
- 2. The Man in the Glass Booth: Hannah Arendt’s Irony
- 3. Fiction in Jerusalem: Muriel Spark’s Idiom of Judgement
- Part II: Territorial Rights
- 4. ‘We Refugees’: Hannah Arendt and the Perplexities of Human Rights
- 5. ‘Creatures of an Impossible Time’: Late Modernism, Human Rights and Elizabeth Bowen
- 6. The ‘Dark Background of Difference’: Love and the Refugee in Iris Murdoch
- Bibliography
- Index