Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory

Francis J. Mootz (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

278 Seiten

2023
The University of Alabama Press (Verlag)
978-0-8173-6084-9 (ISBN)

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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.

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 in the fields of rhetoric and hermeneutics. Drawing from Chaim Perelman's "new rhetoric" and Hans-Georg Gadamer's "philosophical hermeneutics," Mootz argues that justice is a product of rhetorical knowledge. Drawing from Nietzsche, Mootz’s conception of rhetorical knowledge opens up the dynamic possibilities of critical legal theory.

Francis J. Mootz III is Professor of Law at the Dickinson School of Law at Penn State University, editor of Gadamer and Law, andcoeditor with Peter Goodrich Nietzsche and Law.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Rhetoric, Culture, and, Social Critique
Verlagsort	Alabama
Sprache	englisch
Maße	149 x 226 mm
Gewicht	195 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-8173-6084-0 / 0817360840
ISBN-13	978-0-8173-6084-9 / 9780817360849
Zustand	Neuware