Acts of Hope Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics

Name: Acts of Hope Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics
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ISBN: 9780226895116

ISBN-10: 0226895114

ISBN-13: 9780226895116

Edition: 1994 (Reprint)

Authors: James Boyd White

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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 some of our most important thinkers and writers--including Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela, and Lincoln--answer these questions, not in the abstract, but in the way they wrestle with the claims of the world and self in particular historical and cultural contexts. As they define afresh the institutions or practices for which they claim (or resist) authority, they create authorities of their own, in the very modes of thought and expression they employ. They imagine their world anew and…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 10/16/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



The Claims of the World on the Self, the Self on the World



Plato's Crito: The Authority of Law and Philosophy



Creating a Public World



Shakespeare's Richard II: Imagining the Modern World



Hooker's Preface to the Lawes of Ecclesiasticall Politie: Constituting Authority in Argument



Hale's "Considerations Touching the Amendment or Alteration of Lawes": Determining the Authority of the Past



Planned Parenthood v. CASEY: Legal Judgment as an Ethical and Cultural Art



The Authority of the Self



Austen's Mansfield Park: Making the Self Out ofï¿½and Againstï¿½the Culture



Dickinson's Poetry: Transforming the Authority of Language



Reconstituting Self and World: The Creation of Authority as an Act of Hope



Mandela's Speech from the Dock and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Giving Meaning to Life in an Unjust World


Afterword


Additional Notes


Index