Acts of hope : creating authority in literature, law, and politics / James Boyd White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

White, James Boyd, 1938-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authority.

Consensus (Social sciences).

Individualism.

Personalism.

Language and culture.

Physical Description:

xv, 322 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Summary:

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsI: The Claims of the World on the Self, the Self on the World1: Plato's CRITO: The Authority of Law and PhilosophyII: Creating a Public World2: Shakespeare's RICHARD II: Imagining the Modern World3: Hooker's Preface to the LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICALL POLITIE: Constituting Authority in Argument4: Hale's "Considerations Touching the Amendment or Alteration of Lawes": Determining the Authority of the Past5: PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY: Legal Judgment as an Ethical and Cultural ArtIII: The Authority of the Self6: Austen's MANSFIELD PARK: Making the Self Out of--and Against--the Culture7: Dickinson's Poetry: Transforming the Authority of LanguageIV: Reconstituting Self and World: The Creation of Authority as an Act of Hope8: Mandela's Speech from the Dock and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Giving Meaning to Life in an Unjust WorldAfterwordAdditional NotesIndex

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0226895106

OCLC:

30079214