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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lida Maxwell (Associate Professor of Political Science, Associate Professor of Political Science, Trinity College)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.00cm Weight: 0.519kg ISBN: 9780199383740ISBN 10: 019938374 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 15 January 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 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 IndexReviewsMaxwell's book is a highly innovative work that proposes to see public trials as exemplary sites for democratic politics. She brilliantly reads the 'lost cause' narratives of three public intellectuals, Burke, Zola, and Arendt as offering a productive reformulation of democratic failures and as occasions for responsiveness rather than resignation. It provides a fresh reading of these trials, by going beyond the legal texts to less familiar terrain of the literary imagination. The major contribution of the book lies in its ability to redirect the literature on transitional justice from attempting to tame politics in order to allow for justice, to encouraging a politics of resistance as essential to the pursuit of justice. * Leora Bilsky, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University, and author of Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial * Lida Maxwell has produced a provocative and thrilling book on the 'politics of lost causes.' Seeing in democratic failure opportunity as much as loss, promise as much as pessimism, Maxwell shows how failure solicits action, demands accountability and builds counter-intuitive and unpredictable affiliations committed to lost causes and the possible futures they reveal. This is a risky and unconventional work on the art of losing. * Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure * If it is a commonplace that democratic causes are often defeated, even by the people themselves, it does not (indeed, it cannot!) follow that democratic thinkers and actors should abandon their commitments to realizing more just ways of living. Lida Maxwell's Public Trials advances an altogether original and inspiring alternative. Through rich readings of Burke, Zola, and Arendt, Maxwell exemplifies the 'art of losing causes.' Public Trials demonstrates how to create new ways of speaking, writing, and acting in the face of past and present injustice. Vigorously, it summons readers to do the same. * Lawrie Balfour, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, and author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois * Public Trials is an excellent book. Clearly written, well organized, and jargon free, it will be of interest to a wide range of scholars of democracy and law. * G. D. Mackin, Eastman School of Music/University of Rochester, CHOICE * If it is a commonplace that democratic causes are often defeated, even by the people themselves, it does not (indeed, it cannot!) follow that democratic thinkers and actors should abandon their commitments to realizing more just ways of living. Lida Maxwell's Public Trials advances an altogether original and inspiring alternative. Through rich readings of Burke, Zola, and Arendt, Maxwell exemplifies the 'art of losing causes.' Public Trials demonstrates how to create new ways of speaking, writing, and acting in the face of past and present injustice. Vigorously, it summons readers to do the same. --Lawrie Balfour, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, and author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois Lida Maxwell has produced a provocative and thrilling book on the 'politics of lost causes.' Seeing in democratic failure opportunity as much as loss, promise as much as pessimism, Maxwell shows how failure solicits action, demands accountability and builds counter-intuitive and unpredictable affiliations committed to lost causes and the possible futures they reveal. This is a risky and unconventional work on the art of losing. --Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure Maxwell's book is a highly innovative work that proposes to see public trials as exemplary sites for democratic politics. She brilliantly reads the 'lost cause' narratives of three public intellectuals, Burke, Zola, and Arendt as offering a productive reformulation of democratic failures and as occasions for responsiveness rather than resignation. It provides a fresh reading of these trials, by going beyond the legal texts to less familiar terrain of the literary imagination. The major contribution of the book lies in its ability to redirect the literature on transitional justice from attempting to tame politics in order to allow for justice, to encouraging a politics of resistance as essential to the pursuit of justice. --Leora Bilsky, Professor of Law, Tel Aviv University, and author of Transformative Justice: Israeli Identity on Trial If it is a commonplace that democratic causes are often defeated, even by the people themselves, it does not (indeed, it cannot!) follow that democratic thinkers and actors should abandon their commitments to realizing more just ways of living. Lida Maxwell's Public Trials advances an altogether original and inspiring alternative. Through rich readings of Burke, Zola, and Arendt, Maxwell exemplifies the 'art of losing causes.' Public Trials demonstrates how to create new ways of speaking, writing, and acting in the face of past and present injustice. Vigorously, it summons readers to do the same. --Lawrie Balfour, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, and author of Democracy's Reconstruction: Thinking Politically with W.E.B. Du Bois Lida Maxwell has produced a provocative and thrilling book on the 'politics of lost causes.' Seeing in democratic failure opportunity as much as loss, promise as much as pessimism, Maxwell shows how failure solicits action, demands accountability and builds counter-intuitive and unpredictable affiliations committed to lost causes and the possible futures they reveal. This is a risky and unconventional work on the art of losing. --Jack Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure Maxwell's book is a highly innovative work that proposes to see public trials as exemplary sites for democratic politics. She brilliantly reads the 'lost cause' narratives of three public intellectuals, Burke, Zola, and Arendt as offering a productive reformulation of democratic failures and as occasions for responsiveness rather than resignation. It provides a fresh reading of these trials, by going beyond the legal texts to less familiar terrain of the literary imagination. The major contribution of the book lies in its ability to redirect the literature on transitional justice from attempting to tame politics in order to allow for justice, to encouraging a politics of resistance as essential to the pursuit of justice. - Author InformationLida Maxwell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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