In this collection of essays, James Boyd White continues his work
in the rhetorical and literary analysis of law, seeing it as a
system for the creation of social meaning. White's focus is on the
intellectual and ethical possibilities of law, based on the view
that law is not merely a logical enterprise, nor a mere matter of
politics and power, but rather an activity of the whole mind,
including its imaginative and affective capacities.
The essays here are united by two basic themes. First, the essays
suggest that law can usefully be regarded not only as a set of
rules designed to produce results in the material world, as it
usually is regarded, but also as an imaginative and intellectual
activity that has as its end the claim of meaning for human
experience, both individual and collective. Second, they argue that
education, including in the law, works by the constant modification
of expectation by experience.
White claims that as we grow, whether as individuals or as a
community, we constantly shape our expectations to our experiences.
This happens with particular force and clarity in the law, which
seeks to create both a certain set of expectations--this is how it
works as a system of regulation--and a series of occasions and
methods for their revision. White's interest is in the way these
understandings can affect legal teaching, practice, and
criticism.
The essays in this book examine such topics as the nature of legal
education; the possibilities for writing in the law for both judges
and lawyers; the relation between the practice of making and
claiming meaning as it works in the law and in literatures more
usually though of as imaginative, such as poetry or drama; theways
in which the law talks, and ought to talk, about business
corporations, religion, and individual judgments; and the ethical
possibilities of the practice of law when it is conceived of as a
field for the making of meaning.
"From Expectation to Experience" will be of interest to lawyers,
legal scholars, as well as students of law, law and literature, and
ethics and literature.
James Boyd White is Hart Wright Professor of Law, Professor of
English, and Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, University of
Michigan.
General
| Imprint: |
The University of Michigan Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2000 |
| First published: |
December 2000 |
| Authors: |
James Boyd White
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| Dimensions: |
228 x 153 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
208 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-472-08781-5 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Law >
Jurisprudence & general issues >
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| LSN: |
0-472-08781-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780472087815 |
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