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Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Willing Servant to an Unknown God
Buch | Hardcover
222 Seiten
2020
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-47595-2 (ISBN)
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Reassessing one of the most influential figures in American law, Wells examines all aspects of Holmes's life to provide a new understanding of his multifaceted personality. This analysis of the Supreme Court Justice will appeal to legal scholars, historians, philosophers, and general readers interested in biography and American history.
Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the most influential figures in American law. As a Supreme Court Justice, he wrote foundational opinions about such important constitutional issues as freedom of speech and the limits of state regulatory power. As a scholar and Massachusetts High Court judge, he helped to reshape the common law for the modern industrial era. And yet, despite the many accounts of his career, Holmes himself remains an enigma. This book is the first to explore the nineteenth-century New England influences so crucial to the formation of his character. Inspired by Ralph Waldo Emerson's transcendentalism, Holmes belonged to a group of men who formulated a philosophy known as American pragmatism that stood as an alternative to English empiricism and German rationalism. This innovative study places Holmes within the transcendentalist, pragmatist tradition and thereby unlocks his unique identity and contribution to American law. Wells' nuanced analysis will appeal to legal scholars, historians, philosophers, and general readers alike.

Catharine Pierce Wells is Professor of Law at the Law School of Boston College, Massachusetts. Wells has published more than thirty articles, with a focus in the fields of tort law and American jurisprudence.

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. The Soldier's Faith: Prologue: Memorial Day, 1884; 1. Our comfortable routine; 2. War is horrible and dull; 3. The great chorus of life and joy begins again; 4. For the Puritan still lives in New England, Thank God!; Part II. The Journey to the Pole: Commencement speech: Brown University, 1897; 5. A black and frozen night; 6. The loneliness of original work; 7. The master of himself; Epilogue: the consummation.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cambridge Historical Studies in American Law and Society
Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises; 2 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 157 x 235 mm
Gewicht 450 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Militärgeschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht Berufs-/Gebührenrecht
Recht / Steuern Rechtsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-108-47595-7 / 1108475957
ISBN-13 978-1-108-47595-2 / 9781108475952
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