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Interpreting the Fall of a Monument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

Jürgen Habermas

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On April 9th, the entire world watched as American troops threw a noose round the neck of the dictator and, surrounded by jubilant throngs of Iraqis, pulled him off his pedestal. The apparently unshakeable monument tottered, and then finally fell. But before it crashed satisfyingly to the ground, there was a momentary pause before the force of gravity could overcome the statue's grotesquely unnatural, horizontal posture. Bobbing gently up and down, the massive figure clung, for one last moment, to its horror.

Type
European & International Law
Information
German Law Journal , Volume 4 , Issue 7 , 01 July 2003 , pp. 701 - 708
Copyright
Copyright © 2003 by German Law Journal GbR