AZ OBJEKTIVITÁS RETORIKÁJA ÉS AZ EICHMANN-PER
The rhetoric of objectivity and the Eichmann case

Author(s): Dávid Kaposi
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Communication studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: Adolf Eichmann;objectivity;memory
Summary/Abstract: This paper treats the trial of Adolf Eichmann as a discursive product. Instead of examining it along traditional psychological concerns (what does he remember?, how proper his memory is? etc.) the traditional concept of memory gains a discursive emphasis in this study. I turn to questions like „how Eichmann’s ’memory’ is constructed throughout the trial?”, „what sort of versions and counter-versions do exist in the discursive field?”, „what kind of consequences do they entail?” and so on. To sum up, the discursive approach treats remembering, and memory-talk (that is, talking about remembering and memory) as a vital means of the constructions of identities. Thus, its emphasis is on meaning, discursive practices, rather than purely mental procedures and stable context.

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