"Avoiding the recriminatory rhetoric that all too often pervades cultural, political, and scholarly debates, the authors of these first-rate essays reveal the many ways in which sensitivity to religio
The law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges a fresh view of the law as an essentially literary, rhetorica
To which institutions or social practices should we grant authority? When should we instead assert our own sense of what is right or good or necessary?In this book, James Boyd White shows how texts by
White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it."A fascinating study of the language of the law. . . . This book is to
To which institutions or social practices should we grant authority? When should we instead assert our own sense of what is right or good or necessary?In this book, James Boyd White shows how texts by
A pioneer in the law and humanities, James Boyd White here develops a way of criticizing the work of judges that he then uses as the basis for a more general method of cultural criticism. White argues
Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how w
Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the re
