Songs Without Music: Aesthetic Dimensions of Law and Justice Volume 7

by Desmond Manderson

In this pathbreaking and provocative analysis of the aesthetics of law, the historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively using music as a model, he demonstrates that law is not a sterile, rational structure, but a cultural form to be valued and enhanced through rhetoric...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520216881
• ISBN13: 9780520216884
• Release Date: September 2000
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"