Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law - Couverture souple

University Of Wisconsin Press

 
9780299104146: Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of the Law
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ISBN 10 : 0299104141 ISBN 13 : 9780299104146
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1989

Synopsis

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, rhetorical, and ethical activity. Defining and elaborating his conception, he artfully bridges the fields of jurisprudence, literature, philosophy, history, and political science. The result, a new approach that may change the way we perceive the legal process, will engage not only lawyers and law students but anyone interested in the relationship between ethics, persuasion, and community.

White's essays, though bound by a common perspective, are thematically varied. Each of these pieces makes eloquent and insightful reading. Taken as a whole, they establish, by triangulation, a position from which they all proceed: a view of poetry, law, and rhetoric as essentially synonymous. Only when we perceive the links between these processes, White stresses, can we begin to unite the concerns of truth, beauty, and justice in a single field of action and expression.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Boyd White is L. Hart Wright Professor Emeritus of Law, professor emeritus of English, and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan. He has published articles on law, rhetoric, and classical and English literature. White is the author of numerous books, including Living Speech: Resisting the Empire of Force and Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force.

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Éditeur
University of Wisconsin Press
Date d'édition
1989
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0299104141
ISBN 13 
9780299104146
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
270
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780299104108: Heracles' Bow: Essays on the Rhetoric and Poetics of Law

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ISBN 10 :  0299104109 ISBN 13 :  9780299104108
Editeur : University of Wisconsin Press, 1985
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