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23 produkter
When Words Lose Their Meaning
Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
E-bok, 2012
715 kr
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Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer''s Iliad , Swift''s Tale of a Tub , and Austen''s Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland , James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual …
Edge of Meaning
Häftad, 2003
323 kr
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Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we use imagination to give meaning to past experiences and to shape future ones. These are the …
Edge of Meaning
Inbunden, 2001
982 kr
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How do you imagine the world, and yourself and others within it? How do you confront the constraints of language, the evils of your particular culture, the limits of your own mind? How do you use what you imagine to give meaning to your past experience and shape your expectations for the future? …
Legal Imagination
Häftad, 1985
337 kr
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White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it. "A fascinating study of the language of the law...This book is to be highly recommended: certainly, for those who find the time to read it, it will broaden the mind, and …
Justice as Translation
An Essay in Cultural and Legal Criticism
Häftad, 1994
337 kr
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White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When Words Lose Their Meaning, and asks how Americans can and should criticize this culture and the texts it creates. In determining if a judicial opinion is good or bad, …
When Words Lose Their Meaning
Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community
Häftad, 1985
358 kr
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Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer's Iliad, Swift's Tale of a Tub, and Austen's Emma through the United States Constitution and McCulloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the relationship between an individual mind and its language and culture as well as the "textual …
Acts of Hope
Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics
Inbunden, 1994
982 kr
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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 book, James Boyd White shows how texts by some of our most important thinkers and writers - including Plato, Shakespeare, Dickinson, …
Acts of Hope
Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics
Häftad, 1995
383 kr
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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 …
Let in the Light
Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions
Inbunden, 2022
1204 kr
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St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see …
Let in the Light
Learning to Read St. Augustine's Confessions
Häftad, 2022
306 kr
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St. Augustine’s Confessions is heralded as a classic of Western culture. Yet when James Boyd White first tried to read it in translation, it seemed utterly dull. Its ideas struck him as platitudinous and its prose felt drab. It was only when he started to read the text in Latin that he began to see …
How Should We Talk About Religion?
Perspectives, Contexts, Particularities
Häftad, 2006
574 kr
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In this wide-ranging and timely volume, fourteen scholars address the important question, How should we talk about religion, whether our own or the religion of others? They confront such fundamental topics as the sufficiency of "reason" for a full life; the adequacy of our methods of describing and …
Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force
Av H. Jefferson Powell, James Boyd White
E-bok, 2009
1193 kr
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The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, …
"This Book of Starres"
Learning to Read George Herbert
Häftad, 1995
510 kr
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"A real pleasure. . . . Reading this book was like revisiting a country I thought I knew well with a guide who could show me all kinds of delights I had missed in my previous sojourns. . . . A terrific, engaging book." --Michael Schoenfeldt, author of Prayer and Power: George Herbert and …
From Expectation to Experience
Essays on Law and Legal Education
Häftad, 2000
311 kr
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In this collection of essays, James Boyd White continues his work in the rhetorical and literary analysis of law, seeing it as a system for the creation of social meaning. White's focus is on the intellectual and ethical possibilities of law, based on the view that law is not merely a logical …
Living Speech
Resisting the Empire of Force
Häftad, 2008
529 kr
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Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. …
Living Speech
Resisting the Empire of Force
E-bok, 2009
738 kr
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Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human experience. In war other people are imagined as enemies to be killed. The language of race objectifies those it touches, and propaganda disables democracy. …
Gospel as Conversation
Texts, Sermons, and Questions for Reflection: A Study Guide
Inbunden, 2013
469 kr
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Connecting to the Gospel
Texts, Sermons, Commentaries
E-bok, 2010
468 kr
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How can we connect the Gospels--the fundamental texts of Christian faith--to our own experience of inner and outer life? This is the question that animates Connecting to the Gospel. In it James Boyd White presents a series of Gospel passages, together with the sermons he gave on these passages as a …
Gospel as Conversation
Texts, Sermons, and Questions for Reflection: A Study Guide
E-bok, 2013
485 kr
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How are we to read the Gospels and bring them into our lives? The idea of this book is that the Gospels are not merely rules for life, or stories illustrating moral lessons, or statements of theological doctrine, but invitations to thought and conversation. The Gospels are full of problems, …
Law and Democracy in the Empire of Force
Av James Boyd White, H. Jefferson Powell
Inbunden, 2009
1100 kr
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The authors of this book share a concern for the state of law and democracy in our country, which to many seems to have deteriorated badly. Deep changes are visible in a wide array of phenomena: judicial opinions, the teaching of law, legal practice, international relations, legal scholarship, …
