A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory.This book describes the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussions of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today, including affirmative action, gay rights, and assisted suicide.Francis J. Mootz responds to both extremes, those who argue that law is merely a rhetorical mask for the exercise of power and those who demonstrate an ideological faith in law s autonomy, and he breaks new ground by returning to modern classics...
A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory.This book describes th...
In recent years there has been tremendous growth of interest in the connections between law and philosophy, but the diversity of approaches that claim to be working at the intersection of philosophy and law might suggest that this area of inquiry is so fractured as to be incoherent. This volume gathers 38 leading scholars working in law and philosophy to provide focused and straightforward articulations of the role that philosophy might play at this juncture of American legal history. The volume marks the 75th anniversary of Karl Llewellyn s essay On Philosophy in American Law, in which he...
In recent years there has been tremendous growth of interest in the connections between law and philosophy, but the diversity of approaches that claim...
