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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., pragmatism, and the jurisprudence of Agon : aesthetic dissent and the common law /

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s dissents are influential because of their literary qualities of superfluity and energy he inherited from Emerson. The aesthetic style of his dissents reflects his theory of the common law that rejected depictions of fixed and unchanging rules in favor of an evolution...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mendenhall, Allen, 1983- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, [2017]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Evolutionary Common Law; Ch01. Holmes's Dissents and Emersonian Superfluity; Ch02. The Poetics of Transition and Vindicated Dissents; Ch03. Canon Formation and the Marketplace of Ideas; Ch04. Holmes and the Differential Reproduction of Emersonian Ideas in a Transitional Era; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.