Modernism and the ideology of history : literature, politics, and the past / / Louise Blakeney Williams [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910783121803321
• Autore: Williams Louise Blakeney
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002
• ISBN: 1-107-12594-4; 1-280-16135-3; 0-511-12068-0; 1-139-14823-0; 0-511-06501-9; 0-511-05868-3; 0-511-30482-X; 0-511-48535-2; 0-511-07347-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 820.9/112
• Soggetti: English literature - 20th century - History and criticism; History in literature; Literature and history - English-speaking countries - History - 20th century; American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism; Modernism (Literature) - English-speaking countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-257) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- "Immaterial pleasure houses": the initial aesthetic dilemma -- "A more dream-heavy hour": medievalist and progressive beginnings -- "Pedantry and hysteria": contemporary political problems -- "A certain discipline": radical conservative solutions -- "A particularly lively wheel": cyclic views emerge -- "Our own image": the example of Asian and non-Western cultures -- In "the grip of the ... vortex": the proof of post-impressionist art -- The "cycle dance": cyclic history arrives -- "The nightmare" and beyond: the First World War and mature cyclic theories.
• Sommario/riassunto: Louise Williams explores the nature of historical memory in the work of five major Modernists: Yeats, Pound, Hulme, Ford and Lawrence. These Modernists, Williams argues, started their careers with historical assumptions derived from the nineteenth century. But their views on the universal structure of history, on the abandonment of progress and the adoption of a cyclical sense of the past, were the result of important conflicts and changes within the Modernist period. Williams focuses on the period immediately before World War I, and shows in detail how Modernism developed and why it is considered a unique intellectual movement. She also revisits the theory that the Edwardian age was a difficult period of transition to the modern world. Finally, she illuminates the contribution of non-Western culture to the literature and thought of the period. This wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary study is essential reading for literary and cultural historians of the modernist period.

Simple rules for a complex world [[electronic resource] /] / Richard A. Epstein

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778173803321
• Autore: Epstein Richard Allen <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1995
• ISBN: 0-674-03656-5
• Descrizione fisica: xiv, 361 p
• Disciplina: 340/.1
• Soggetti: Law - Economic aspects - United States; Adversary system (Law) - United States; Lawyers - United States; Social justice; Simplicity (Philosophy); United States Economic policy; United States Social policy
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Too Many Lawyers, Too Much Law -- I. Cutting through Complexity -- 1. The Virtues of Simplicity -- 2. The Enemies of Simplicity -- II. The Simple Rules -- 3. Autonomy and Property -- 4. Contract -- 5. Torts -- 6. Necessity, Coordination, and Just Compensation -- 7. Take and Pay -- III. The Rules in Action -- 8. Contracting for Labor -- 9. Employment Discrimination and Comparable Worth -- 10. Professional Liability for Financial Loss -- 11. The Origins of Product Liability Law -- 12. The Contemporary Product Liability Scene -- 13. The Internal Life of the Corporation -- 14. The Corporation and the World -- 15. Environmental Protection and Private Property -- Conclusion: The Challenges to Simple Rules -- Notes -- Index of Statutes -- Index of Cases -- General Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Too many laws, too many lawyers--that's the necessary consequence of a complex society, or so conventional wisdom has it. Countless pundits insist that any call for legal simplification smacks of nostalgia, sentimentality, or naiveté. But the conventional view, the noted legal scholar Richard Epstein tells us, has it exactly backward. The richer texture of modern society allows for more individual freedom and choice. And it allows us to organize a comprehensive legal order capable of meeting the technological and social challenges of today on the basis of just six core principles. In this book, Epstein demonstrates how. The first four rules, which regulate human interactions in ordinary social life, concern the autonomy of the individual, property, contract, and tort. Taken together these rules establish and protect consistent entitlements over all resources, both human and natural. These rules are backstopped by two more rules that permit forced exchanges on payment of just compensation when private or public necessity so dictates. Epstein then uses these six building blocks to clarify many intractable problems in the modern legal landscape. His discussion of employment contracts explains the hidden virtues of contracts at will and exposes the crippling weaknesses of laws regarding collective bargaining, unjust dismissal, employer discrimination, and comparable worth. And his analysis shows how laws governing liability for products and professional services, corporate transactions, and environmental protection have generated unnecessary social strife and economic dislocation by violating these basic principles.Simple Rules for a Complex World offers a sophisticated agenda for comprehensive social reform that undoes much of the mischief of the modern regulatory state. At a time when most Americans have come to distrust and fear government at all levels, Epstein shows how a consistent application of economic and political theory allows us to steer a middle path between too much and too little.