Justice in Lyon is a comprehensive history of the trial for crimes against humanity of the Nazi Klaus Barbie.
Richard J. Golsan Boeken
18 oktober 1952
Richard J. Golsan is een vooraanstaand professor wiens werk zich verdiept in de literaire, cinematografische en juridische nalatenschap van de Tweede Wereldoorlog in Frankrijk, naast thema's als fascisme en de politieke betrokkenheid van schrijvers en intellectuelen. Zijn werk onderzoekt kritisch hoe makers omgingen met medeplichtigheid en de complexe wisselwerking tussen politiek en artistieke expressie. Golsans benadering wordt gekenmerkt door scherpe analyses en biedt diepgaande inzichten in de complexe relaties tussen kunst, geschiedenis en maatschappelijke veranderingen. Via zijn publicaties en zijn onderwijs in de Franse cinema biedt hij lezers en studenten een rijk begrip van cruciale momenten in de Franse culturele en intellectuele geschiedenis.
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
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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