A01=James Boyd White
abraham lincoln
argumentation
arguments
Author_James Boyd White
authority
Category=JH
Category=JPA
Category=LAB
Category=QDTM
cultural context
culture
emily dickinson
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eq_society-politics
ethics
government
historical contexts
history
individualism
institutions
jane austen
justice
language
law
lawes of ecclesiasticall politie
legal study
legalism
legality
literary studies
literature
mansfield park
meaningful
morality
nelson mandela
personalism
philosophy
planned parenthood
plato
political science
politics
richard the second
social practices
transformation
william shakespeare
Product details
- ISBN 9780226895116
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 16 Oct 1995
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 text, the author shows how texts by some of the important thinkers and writers - including Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, Mandela and Lincoln - answer these questions in the way they wrestle with the claims of the world and self in particular historical and cultural contexts. As they define the institutions or practices for which they claim (or resist) authority, they create authorities of their own, in the modes of thought and expression they employ. They imagine their world anew and transform the languages that give it meaning. In so doing, White maintains, these works teach us about how to read and judge claims of authority made by others upon us; how to decide to which institutions and practices we should grant authority; and how to create authorities of our own through our thoughts and arguments.
