Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

by Francis J. Mootz III

Mootz offers an antidote to the fragmentation of contemporary legal theory with a collection of essays arguing that legal practice is a hermeneutical and rhetorical event that can best be understood and theorized in those terms. This is not a modern insight that wipes away centuries of dogmatic confusion; rather, Mootz draws on insights as old as the Western tradition itself. However, the essays are not antiquarian or merely descriptive, because hermeneutical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754628108
• ISBN13: 9780754628101
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 492 Pages
• Weight: 2.22 lbs.