00856    a2200133   4500020001800000082001900018100001700037245007100054260003400125300001600159504001800175520047400193650005500667  a9780190649845  a320.011bMAX-P  aMaxwell,Lida  aPublic trials: Burke, Zola, Arendt and the politics of lost causes  bOxford University Pressc2017  axiii, 235p.  aInclude Index  aThere are certain moments, such as the American founding or the Civil Rights Movement, that we revisit again and again as instances of democratic triumph, and there are other moments that haunt us as instances of democratic failure. How should we view moments of democratic failure, when both the law and citizens forsake justice? Do such moments reveal a wholesale failure of democracy or a more contested failing, pointing to what could have been, and still might be?  aPhilosophy Democracy vJusticevLawvPublic Trials