Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness

Legal History › Others

Oliver Wendell Holmes and Fixations of Manliness

By John M. Kang
Routledge March 2018

Specifications

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

Details

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.

Table of Contents

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
HKD 1,954.55 −3%
HKD 2,015.00

Inclusive of HK delivery

Ready to ship
Delivery Time: around 4-5 weeks
Extra 2-10 working days if shipping address outside Hong Kong
  • Free HK shipping over HK$1,000
  • International shipping to 35+ countries
Order Form
Save

Recommended

You may also be interested in these books:

More titles from Legal History

View all
The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present
Hart Publishing

The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present

Norman Doe; Stephen Coleman
HKD 630.37
Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection
Talbot Publishing

Law's Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection

Michael Widener, Mark S. Weiner
HKD 505.00
Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915-60
Bloomsbury Academic

Imperial Gallows: Murder, Violence and the Death Penalty in British Colonial Africa, c.1915-60

Stacey Hynd
HKD 385.00
An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Routledge

An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

John. Brewer; John Styles
HKD 1,576.25
The Madman and the Churchrobber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern England
Oxford University Press

The Madman and the Churchrobber: Law and Conflict in Early Modern England

Jason Peacey
HKD 579.93
The Declaration of Independence and God: Self-Evident Truths in American Law
Cambridge University Press

The Declaration of Independence and God: Self-Evident Truths in American Law

Owen Anderson
HKD 428.74