Songs without music
Subtitle: aesthetic dimensions of law and justice
By: Desmond Manderson.
Series: Philosophy, social theory, and the rule of law ;; 7
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
Subjects: Law and aesthetics.
Description: "In this analysis of the aesthetics of law, historian, legal theorist, and musician Desmond Manderson argues that by treating a text, legal or otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions, readers miss its formal and symbolic meanings. Creatively using music as a model, he demonstrates that law is not a sterile, rational structure, but a cultural form to be valued and enhanced through rhetoric and metaphors, form, images, and symbols. The author further develops this argument by basing each chapter on a different musical form."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-297) and index.