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

by James Boyd White

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226895114
• ISBN13: 9780226895116
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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