Rätten och den sociosymboliska sömnen - reflektioner om det industriella folkmordets eftereffekter
Författare
Summary, in English
Combining cultural theory with the philosophy of law, this essay argues that the advent of state-managed, industrial genocide has brought about a crisis of confidence in the institutions of modern society. A wave of incrimination emanates from the holocaust, which primarily strikes against the institutions of law, but also affects the credibility of sociosymbolic mandate as such. Drawing on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben, the author proposes that the dynamics of this crisis may be understood in epistemological terms through the notion of “sociosymbolic sleep” – a psycho-cultural barrier between incompatible registers of knowledge, that the facts of industrial genocide threatens to shatter.
Publiceringsår
2007
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
7-21
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Retfærd: Nordisk juridisk tidsskrift
Volym
115
Issue
4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
DJØF Forlag
Ämne
- Art History
Nyckelord
- cultural theory
- philosophy of law
- active forgetfulness
- cultural memory
- Giorgio Agamben
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Walter Benjamin
- Jacques Derrida
- memory
- Holocaust
- state of exception
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 0105-1121