White, James Boyd <br/><br/>
Acts of hope  creating authority in literature, law and politics 
James Boyd White. 
 - Chicago  University of Chicago Press  1994. 
 - xv, 322 p.  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Plato's Crito: the authority of law and philosophy -- Shakespeare's Richard II: imagining the modern world -- Hooker's preface to the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie: constituting authority in argument -- Hales's "Considerations touching the Amendment of Alteration of Lawes : determining the authority of the past -- Planned Parenthood v. Casey: legal judgement as an ethical and cultural art --Austen's Mansfield Park: making the self out of and against -- the culture -- Dickinson's poetry: transforming the authority of language -- Mandela's speech from the dock and Lincoln's second inaugural. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0226895106 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authority.<br/>Language and culture<br/>Personalism.<br/>Individualism<br/>Consensus Social sciences
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JC328.2  / .W55 1994.