Francis J Mootz: 2 books

A clear summary of contemporary rhetorical philosophy and its intersections with hermeneutics and critical theory**.**   This book describes the significance of rhetorical knowledge for law through detailed discussions of some of the most difficult legal issues facing courts today,...

Mootz offers an antidote to the fragmentation of contemporary legal theory with a collection of essays arguing that legal practice is a hermeneutical and rhetorical event that can best be understood and theorized in those terms. This is not a modern insight that wipes away centuries of dogmatic confusion;...