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Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness

Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness

Name: Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness
Brand: Routledge
SKU: 9781138218185
Price: 1954.55 HKD
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Author: John M. Kang
ISBN: 9781138218185

By John M. Kang

Routledge March 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781138218185
Publisher: Routledge
Publication: March 2018
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. has been, and continues to be, praised as America’s greatest judge and he is widely considered to have done more than anyone else to breathe life into the Constitution’s right of free speech, probably the most crucial right for democracy. One indeed finds among professors of constitutional law and federal judges the widespread belief that the scope of the First Amendment owes much of its incredible expansion over the last sixty years to Holmes’s judicial dissents in Abrams and Gitlow.

In this book, John M. Kang offers the novel thesis that Holmes’s dissenting opinions in Abrams and Gitlow drew in part from a normative worldview structured by an idiosyncratic manliness, a manliness which was itself rooted in physical courage. In making this argument, Kang seeks to show how Holmes’s justification for the right of speech was a bid to proffer a philosophical commentary about the demands of democracy.

Preface

Chapter One: The Father and the Hero

Chapter Two: A Collegiate Manliness

Chapter Three: Reasons for Fighting in the War

Chapter Four: The Experience of War: "A Splendid Carelessness for Life"

Chapter Five: Faith through Fire

Chapter Six: The Famous Cases: Abrams and Gitlow

Chapter 7: Holmes’s Change of Mind

Chapter 8: Gender and Citizenship

Conclusion

Index

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