In praise of intransigence : : the perils of flexibility / / Richard H. Weisberg.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York. New York : : Oxford University Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Thinking about the way we think: how flexibility can be fatal
- The politics of compromise: "red-baiting" takes a new form
- The use and abuse of flexible distortion in the New Testament and early Christian thought
- 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
- Secular story tellers present the limits of compromise: Shakespeare, Glaspell, and Faulkner
- Flexible distortions of American law and tradition, or how saints Paul and John influence fundamental social policy.