Doing What Comes Naturally : Change, Rhetoric, and the Practice of Theory in Literary & Legal Studies /

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In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Natur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fish, Stanley Eugene (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : Duke University Press, 1989.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Semantique (droit)
Droit > Langage.
Rhetorique.
Litterature > Histoire et critique > Theorie, etc.
Literatuurwetenschap.
Rechtstaal.
Rechtsliteratuur.
Retorica.
Semantics (Law)
Rhetoric.
Literature > Theory, etc.
Law > Language.
Hermeneutics.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
hermeneutics.
Hermeneutique.
Semantique (Droit)
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:In literary theory, the philosophy of law, and the sociology of knowledge, no issue has been more central to current debate than the status of our interpretations. Do they rest on a ground of rationality or are they subjective impositions of a merely personal point of view? In Doing What Comes Naturally, Stanley Fish refuses the dilemma posed by this question and argues that while we can never separate our judgments from the contexts in which they are made, those judgments are nevertheless authoritative and even, in the only way that matters, objective. He thus rejects both the dem.
Physical Description:1 online resource (624 pages).
ISBN:9780822381600

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