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 evolutionary view.

• | By (Author): Allen Mendenhall
• | Publisher: Bucknell University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2016
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 202 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-10: 1611487919
• | ISBN-13: 9781611487916