Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.
Richard J. Golsan Libros
18 de octubre de 1952
Richard J. Golsan es un distinguido profesor cuya erudición profundiza en los legados literario, cinematográfico y legal de la Segunda Guerra Mundial en Francia, junto con temas como el fascismo y el compromiso político de escritores e intelectuales. Su trabajo examina críticamente cómo los creadores lidiaron con la complicidad y la intrincada interconexión entre la política y la expresión artística. El enfoque de Golsan se caracteriza por un análisis agudo, ofreciendo profundas perspectivas sobre las complejas relaciones entre el arte, la historia y los cambios sociales. A través de sus publicaciones y su enseñanza sobre el cine francés, proporciona a lectores y estudiantes una rica comprensión de momentos cruciales en la historia cultural e intelectual francesa.
One of the distinctive features of the "Vichy Syndrome"?the persistence of the memory of the Vichy regime in French political and cultural life?is that it has been extremelyødifficult for an authoritative historical discourse to impose itself. Why does Vichy, and all that the name entails, fascinate and even obsess the French, inflecting not only discussions of the past but of the present as well? In Vichy's Afterlife, Richard J. Golsan explores the complexities of some of the most provocative episodes of Vichy's curious persistence in France's national consciousness. He argues that each of these episodes, events, and scandals constitutes a crossroads where history and "counterhistory"?different or competing versions of the past?encounter one another, often with explosive and even destructive consequences.
This study examines the continuing impact of the memory of the Vichy regime and World War II in France. It analyzes recent political and intellectual debates, trials and the passage of contentious laws, historical controversies, and literary works and argues that the country has not yet reconciled with its past.
The trial that never ends
- 272 páginas
- 10 horas de lectura
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Arendt in Jerusalem: The Eichmann Trial, the Banality of Evil, and the Meaning of Justice Fifty Years On -- 1 Judging the Past: The Eichmann Trial -- 2 Eichmann in Jerusalem: Conscience, Normality, and the "Rule of Narrative" -- 3 Banality, Again -- 4 Eichmann on the Stand: Self-Recognition and the Problem of Truth -- 5 Arendt's Conservatism and the Eichmann Judgment -- 6 Eichmann's Victims, Holocaust Historiography, and Victim Testimony -- 7 Truth and Judgment in Arendt's Writing -- 8 Arendt, German Law, and the Crime of Atrocity -- 9 Whose Trial? Adolf Eichmann's or Hannah Arendt's? The Eichmann Controversy Revisited -- Contributors -- Index