In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weisberg, Richard H., 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]
Subjects:
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.