In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility / / Richard H. Weisberg
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| Autore: |
Weisberg Richard H. <1944->
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| Titolo: |
In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility / / Richard H. Weisberg
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| Pubblicazione: | New York. New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2014] |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 170 |
| Soggetto topico: | Ethics, Modern |
| Adaptability (Psychology) | |
| Rigidity (Psychology) | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | In praise of intransigence |
| ISBN: | 0-19-933499-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816541003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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