The Judicial Imagination: Writing After Nuremberg

by Lyndsey Stonebridge

Book Overview

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, Muriel Spark and Iris Murdoch. Writing in the false dawn of a new era of international justice and human rights, these complicated women intellectuals...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0748691251
• ISBN13: 9780748691258
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"