Autore: White James Boyd White

Through fresh readings of texts ranging from Homer’s Iliad, Swift’s Tale of a Tub, and Austen’s Emma through the United States Constitution and Mc Culloch v. Maryland, James Boyd White examines the r …

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 b …