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Acts of Hope (Paperback, New edition)
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Acts of Hope (Paperback, New edition)
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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, Mandela, and Lincoln--answer these questions, not in the
abstract, but in the way they wrestle with the claims of the world
and self in particular historical and cultural contexts. As they
define afresh the institutions or practices for which they claim
(or resist) authority, they create authorities of their own, in the
very modes of thought and expression they employ. They imagine
their world anew and transform the languages that give it meaning.
In so doing, White maintains, these works teach us about how to
read and judge claims of authority made by others upon us; how to
decide to which institutions and practices we should grant
authority; and how to create authorities of our own through our
thoughts and arguments. Elegant and accessible, this book will
appeal to anyone wanting to better understand one of the primary
processes of our social and political lives.
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