The Pragmatism and Prejudice of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Vannatta, Seth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis Menand wrote, "Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to mention a nihilist)." Each of the eight chapters investigates one label, analyzes the secondary texts that support the use of the term to characterize Holmes's philosophy, and takes a stand on whether or not the category is appropriate for Holmes by assessing his judicial and nonjudicial publications, including his books, articles, and posthumously published correspondences. The thrust of the collection as a whole, nevertheless, bends toward the stance that Holmes is a pragmatist in his jurisprudence, ethics, and politics. The final chapter, by Susan Haack, makes that case explicitly.

Edited by Seth Vannatta, this book will be of particular interest to students and faculty working in law, jurisprudence, philosophy, intellectual history, American Studies, political science, and constitutional theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498561259
• Artikelnr.: 57017598

Autorenporträt

Edited by Seth Vannatta - Contributions by Alexander Lian; Raff Donelson; Frederic R. Kellogg; Sarah Woolwine; Allen Mendenhall; Catharine Wells; Brian Butler and Susan Haack

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Seth Vannatta 1. The Jobbist
Alexander Lian 2. The Nihilist
Raff Donelson 3. The Utilitarian
Frederic Kellogg 4. The Social Darwinist
Seth Vannatta and Sarah Woolwine 5. The Natural Law Theorist
Allen Mendenhall 6. The Positivist
Catharine Wells 7. The Legal Realist
Brian Butler 8. The Pragmatist
Susan Haack