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In this ground-breaking book, Kahn uses modern cultural theory to investigate Americaâs most profound political myth: the belief that the rule of law is rule by the people. Kahn explores the elements of the myth, the rhetoric of law that sustains the myth, and the world of meaning the myth creates. He shows us that law must be central to religious, anthropological, and philosophical studies of American life.
Paul W. Kahn, Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities at Yale Law School, is the author of Law and Love: The Trials of King Lear and Legitimacy and History: Self-Government in American Constitutional Theory, both published by Yale University Press.
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- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: In America the Law Is King
- Part I: Studying the Rule of Law
- 1. Marbury and the Historical Origins of the American Legal Imagination
- 2. An Archaeological Approach to Law
- Part II: The Temporality of Law
- 3. Political Time: Law and Revolution
- 4. Locating the Self in Political Time
- Part III: The Rhetoric of the Judicial Opinion
- 5. The Rule of Law and the Suppression of the Subject
- 6. The Strategies of Law
- PART IV: Law and Representation
- 7. The Representative Character of Law's Appearance
- 8. Representing the Opinion of the People
- Conclusion: Power and Knowledge in the Rule of Law
- Appendix: William Marbury v. James Madison, Secretary of State of the United States
- Notes
- Index