02253nam 2200565 450 991081654100332120230803221136.00-19-933499-4(CKB)2550000001256722(SSID)ssj0001180058(PQKBManifestationID)12534018(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001180058(PQKBWorkID)11185353(PQKB)11314555(Au-PeEL)EBL1665558(CaPaEBR)ebr10858497(CaONFJC)MIL588449(OCoLC)875894694(MiAaPQ)EBC1665558(EXLCZ)99255000000125672220140117h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrIn praise of intransigence the perils of flexibility /Richard H. WeisbergNew York. New York :Oxford University Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (199 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-19-933498-6 1-306-57198-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Ethics, ModernAdaptability (Psychology)Rigidity (Psychology)Ethics, Modern.Adaptability (Psychology)Rigidity (Psychology)170Weisberg Richard H.1944-164406MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816541003321In praise of intransigence4083422UNINA