In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility /
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2014]
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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.