Life-Giving Speech Amid an Empire of Silence

It will come as no surprise to readers of the Law Review that James Boyd White is a daring and wise practitioner of what Clifford Geertz terms "blurred genres." By appeal to Kenneth Burke, Victor Turner, and Paul Ricoeur, among others, Geertz envisions a broad interpretive venture that bre...

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Published in:Michigan Law Review 2007-04, Vol.105 (6), p.1115-1132
Main Author: Brueggemann, Walter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Censorship
Constitutional amendments
Freedom of speech
Interpretation and construction
Language
Law
Law and legislation
Society
The Language of Law
Tobacco
Verbal communication
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Summary:It will come as no surprise to readers of the Law Review that James Boyd White is a daring and wise practitioner of what Clifford Geertz terms "blurred genres." By appeal to Kenneth Burke, Victor Turner, and Paul Ricoeur, among others, Geertz envisions a broad interpretive venture that breaks out of the rigid regulations of a particular discipline to a larger constructive enterprise that entertains life and its meaning as a "game" of face-to-face engagement, or as a "drama" that presses on to the next scene. White's work fits that vision precisely.
ISSN:0026-2234
1939-8557