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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816541003321

Autore

Weisberg Richard H. <1944->

Titolo

In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility / / Richard H. Weisberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York. New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-19-933499-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 pages)

Disciplina

170

Soggetti

Ethics, Modern

Adaptability (Psychology)

Rigidity (Psychology)

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

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.