Civility, legality, and justice in America / edited by Austin Sarat, Amherst College.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sarat, Austin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil society--United States--Congresses.

Civil society.

Political culture--United States--Congresses.

Political culture.

United States.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xi, 166 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Throughout American history, the discourse of civility has proven quite resilient, and concern for a perceived lack of civility has ebbed and flowed in recognizable patterns. Today we are in another era in which political leaders and commentators bemoan a crisis of incivility and warn of civility's demise. Civility, Legality, and the Limits of Justice charts the uses of civility in American legal and political discourse. How important is civility as a legal and political virtue? How does it fare when it is juxtaposed with the claim that it masks injustice? Who advocates civility and to what effect? How are battles over civility played out in legal and political arenas? This book brings the work of several distinguished scholars together to critically assess the relative claims of civility and justice and the way law weighs those virtues"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the meanings and uses of civility Austin Sarat; 1. Disagreement, contempt, and the difficult work of liberal civility Teresa M. Bejan and Bryan Garsten; 2. Civility and formality Jeremy Waldron; 3. Civility and the alien Leti Volpp; 4. Against civility: a feminist perspective Linda M. G. Zerilli; Afterword: civility and the politics of sexuality Heather Elliott.

Notes:

"This volume is the product of a symposium held at the University of Alabama, School of Law on September 27, 2013"--Introduction.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781107063716

110706371X

9781107675599

1107675596

OCLC:

874835486

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