Acts of Hope: Creating Authority in Literature, Law, and Politics Book

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
I	The Claims of the World on the Self, the Self on the World
1	Plato's CRITO: The Authority of Law and Philosophy	3
II	Creating a Public World
2	Shakespeare's RICHARD II: Imagining the Modern World	47
3	Hooker's Preface to the LAWES OF ECCLESIASTICALL POLITIE: Constituting Authority in Argument	82
4	Hale's "Considerations Touching the Amendment or Alteration of Lawes": Determining the Authority of the Past	124
5	PLANNED PARENTHOOD v. CASEY: Legal Judgment as an Ethical and Cultural Art	153
III	The Authority of the Self
6	Austen's MANSFIELD PARK: Making the Self Out of - and Against - the Culture	187
7	Dickinson's Poetry: Transforming the Authority of Language	224
IV	Reconstituting Self and World: The Creation of Authority as an Act of Hope
8	Mandela's Speech from the Dock and Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address: Giving Meaning to Life in an Unjust World	275
	Afterword	303
	Additional Notes	309
	Index	313