Mengele's Skull: The Advent of a Forensic Aesthetics
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| Rating | : | 4.54 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1934105910 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Adolf Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem in 1960, beginning the ''era of the witness'' in the prosecution of human rights abuses. After Mengele's death in 1985, his body was identified on an examining table in a morgue by a group of forensic scientists in Brazil. This book, based on a presentation by the authors, explores the emergence of the object in human rights, the conditions of its presentation, and the aesthetic operations involved in deciphering the ''speech of things.''. Josef Mengele escaped Germany and lived out his life hidden in Argentina. In the aftermath of World War II, two notorious Nazi villains were exposed in different ways
"While not surprising perhaps to readers familiar with law," according to Murrayhill. While not surprising perhaps to readers familiar with law, this book does help define a moment in the history of the humanities, and it's mercifully brief.