Heracles' Bow (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Series): Essays On The Rhetoric & Poetics Of The Law - Softcover

University Of Wisconsin Press

 
9780299104146: Heracles' Bow (Rhetoric of the Human Sciences Series): Essays On The Rhetoric & Poetics Of The Law
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0299104141 ISBN 13: 9780299104146
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989

Synopsis

The law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this thoughtful series of essays, James Boyd White urges a fresh view of the law as an essentially literary, rhetorical, and ethical activity. Defining and elaborating his conception, he artfully bridges the fields of jurisprudence, literature, philosophy, history, and political science. The result, a new approach that may change the way we perceive the legal process, will engage not only lawyers and law students but anyone interested in the relationship between ethics, persuasion, and community.

White's essays, though bound by a common perspective, are thematically varied. Each of these pieces makes eloquent and insightful reading. Taken as a whole, they establish, by triangulation, a position from which they all proceed: a view of poetry, law, and rhetoric as essentially synonymous. Only when we perceive the links between these processes, White stresses, can we begin to unite the concerns of truth, beauty, and justice in a single field of action and expression.

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About the Author

JAMES BOYD WHITE is Hart Wright Professor of Law, professor of English, and adjunct professor of classical studies at the University of Michigan.

From the Back Cover

The law has traditionally been regarded as a set of rules and institutions. In this series of thoughtful essays, James Boyd White urges a fresh view of the law as an essentially literary, rhetorical, and ethical activity. Defining and elaborating his conception, he artfully bridges the fields of jurisprudence, literature, philosophy, history, and political science. The result--a new approach that may change the way we perceive the legal process--will engage not only lawyers and law students but anyone interested in the relationships among ethics, persuasion, and community.

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Publisher
University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date
1989
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0299104141
ISBN 13 
9780299104146
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
270

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