Overview :In 2013, an international group of jurists gathered in London to mark the 40th anniversary of the publication of James Boyd White's The Lega... Read More
Overview :White extends his theory of law as constitutive rhetoric, asking how one may criticize the legal culture and the texts within it. "A fascin... Read More
Overview :White extends his conception of United States law as a constitutive rhetoric shaping American legal culture that he proposed in When Words L... Read More
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... Read More
Overview :Language is our key to imagining the world, others, and ourselves. Yet sometimes our ways of talking dehumanize others and trivialize human ... Read More
Overview :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... Read More
Overview :Demonstrating how religion is talked about in the languages of very different academic disciplines, this book addresses various issues: fund... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More