Narrative, Violence, and the Law: The Essays of Robert Cover

by Austin Sarat, Michael Ryan, Martha Minow

Book Overview

Bob Cover was and remains the dominant voice of his generation among legal scholars. These essays, each one magnificent in itself, are, when taken together, even more important. The wisdom they impart is forever. --Guido Calabresi, Dean and Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University
Robert Cover drew his sources for the authority of law--for its violence, but also for its paideic potential--from the structuring stories that spark our communal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472064959
• ISBN13: 9780472064953
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"