Shoshana Felman Knihy

Shoshana Felman's influence spans multiple disciplines, including psychoanalytic criticism, deconstruction, and feminist studies, reshaping how literary criticism engages with texts. Her work emphasizes the real-world impact of literature and explores how encounters with texts transform our search for meaning. By fostering connections between various fields, Felman has created a rich dialogue that enhances understanding of literature's effects and the complexities of interpretation.

This book offers an account of the surprising interaction between trauma and justice. Moving from texts by Arendt, Benjamin, Freud, Zola, and Tolstoy to the Dreyfus and Nuremberg trials, and the trials of O. J. Simpson and Adolf Eichmann, Felman argues that the adjudication of collective traumas in the 20th century transformed both culture and law.