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New York. New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]

1 online resource (199 pages)

ISBN 9780199334995 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780199334988 (hardback : alk. paper)

Print version: Weisberg, Richard H. In praise of intransigence : the perils of flexibility. New York. New York : Oxford University Press, [2014] ISBN 9780199334988

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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