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Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute In Virginia, Thomas Buckley
Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute In Virginia, Thomas Buckley
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Measuring Justice: Notes On Fish, Foucault, And The Law, Steven J. Mailloux
Measuring Justice: Notes On Fish, Foucault, And The Law, Steven J. Mailloux
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My paper can be described in several ways. It is an illustration of something I call rhetorical hermeneutics: the use of rhetoric to practice theory by doing history (Mailloux 1989). It is also part of a larger project on "The Ancients and the Postmodem": an argument that much poststructuralist thought in law, critical theory, and other human sciences can be usefully understood as a contemporary reception of classical Greek rhetoric and philosophy (Shankman 1994, Mailloux 1995, Zuckert 1996). In the following remarks, I suggest how Michel Foucault's genealogical work is both derived from and employed in a reading of Plato …