The Nature of Argument: A Study in Language of Culture

FAIN: FP-10125-77

James B. White
University of Chicago (Chicago, IL 60637-5418)

To study and compare the ways of thinking and speaking about matters of public choice and value, with special focus on the literature of ancient Greece, 18th Century England, and America, and the texts that underlie the making and interpretation of our Constitution. Connections will be drawn to the ways in which modern lawyers function as users and makers of a public language.