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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weisberg, Richard H., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethics, Modern.

Adaptability (Psychology).

Rigidity (Psychology).

Physical Description:

xv, 182 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York. N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 2014.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199334988

0199334986

OCLC:

860944020