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

By: Weisberg, Richard H, 1944- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York. New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: 2014Description: 1 online resource (199 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780199334995Subject(s): Ethics, Modern | Adaptability (Psychology) | Rigidity (Psychology)Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility.DDC classification: 170 LOC classification: BJ301 | .W45 2014Online resources: Click to View
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.
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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.

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