creating authority in literature, law and politics White, James Boyd creator text ilu Chicago University of Chicago Press 1994 monographic eng xv, 322 p. 24 cm. 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. James Boyd White. Includes bibliographical references and index. Authority Language and culture Personalism Individualism Consensus Social sciences JC328.2 .W55 1994. 0226895106 980505 20160527195806.0 216477