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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226895106
• ISBN13: 9780226895109
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.2"

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