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

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Mendenhall, Allen, 1983- [author.]

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TextPublisher: Lewisburg, Pa. : Bucknell University Press, [2017]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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online resource

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9781611487923
1611487927

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., pragmatism, and the jurisprudence of AgonDDC classification:

347.73/2634 23

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KF8745.H6

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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.

Summary: 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 evolutionary view.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 evolutionary view.

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