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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mendenhall, Allen, 1983- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > Jr., > 1841-1935.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, > Jr., > 1841-1935
United States. > Supreme Court.
United States. > Supreme Court > Officials and employees > Biography.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court.
États-Unis. > Supreme Court > Fonctionnaires > Biographies.
United States. > Supreme Court
Dissenting opinions > United States.
Judges > United States > Biography.
Opinions dissidentes (Droit) > États-Unis.
Juges > États-Unis > Biographies.
LAW > Civil Procedure.
LAW > Legal Services.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Judicial Branch.
Dissenting opinions
Employees
Judges
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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