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049 _aBDCG.
050 _aJC328.2
_b.W55 1994.
100 1 _aWhite, James Boyd
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245 1 0 _aActs of hope
_bcreating authority in literature, law and politics
_cJames Boyd White.
260 _aChicago
_bUniversity of Chicago Press
_c1994.
300 _axv, 322 p.
_c24 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aPlato'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.
650 0 _aAuthority.
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650 0 _aLanguage and culture
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650 0 _aPersonalism.
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650 0 _aIndividualism
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650 0 _aConsensus Social sciences
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