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Worlds Beyond Theory: Toward The Expression Of An Integrative Ethic For Self And Culture, Peter Read Teachout
Worlds Beyond Theory: Toward The Expression Of An Integrative Ethic For Self And Culture, Peter Read Teachout
Michigan Law Review
A Review of When Words Lose Their Meaning: Constitutions and Reconstitutions of Language, Character, and Community by James Boyd White
Law As Rhetoric, Rhetoric As Law: The Arts Of Cultural And Communal Life, James Boyd White
Law As Rhetoric, Rhetoric As Law: The Arts Of Cultural And Communal Life, James Boyd White
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In this paper I shall suggest that law is most usefully seen not, as it usually is by academics and philosophers, as a system of rules, but as a branch of rhetoric; and that the kind of rhetoric of which law is a species is most usefully seen not, as rhetoric usually is, either as a failed science or as the ignoble art of persuasion, but as the central art by which community and culture are established, maintained, and transformed. So regarded, rhetoric is continuous with law, and like it, has justice as its ultimate subject. I do not mean …