TY  - BOOK
AU  - White,James Boyd
TI  - Acts of hope: creating authority in literature, law and politics
SN  - 0226895106
AV  - JC328.2 .W55 1994.
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Chicago
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Authority
KW  - Local
KW  - Language and culture
KW  - Personalism
KW  - Individualism
KW  - Consensus Social sciences
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
ER  -