In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility /
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| Author / Creator: | Weisberg, Richard H., 1944- author. |
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| Imprint: | Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2014] |
| Description: | xv, 182 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10093310 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1. Thinking About the Way We Think: How Flexibility Can Be Fatal
- 2. The Politics of Compromise: "Red-Baiting" Takes a New Form
- 3. The Use and Abuse of Flexible Distortion in the New Testament and Early Christian Thought
- 4. Wartime France and the Occupied British Islands: Two "Flexiphobes" Unyieldingly Fight the Genocidal Trend and are Joined by a Sitting Judge in Nazi Germany Itself
- 5. Secular Story Tellers Present the Limits of Compromise: Shakespeare, Glaspell, and Faulkner
- 6. Flexible Distortions of American Law and Tradition, or How Saints Paul and John Influence Fundamental Social Policy
- Conclusion, with a hint on "Performing our Values"
- Index
