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Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon

- Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law
Af: Allen Mendenhall Engelsk Hardback

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Pragmatism, and the Jurisprudence of Agon

- Aesthetic Dissent and the Common Law
Af: Allen Mendenhall Engelsk Hardback
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This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes’s literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thought: “superfluity” and the “poetics of transition,” concepts ascribed to Emerson and developed by literary critic Richard Poirier. Using this aesthetic style borrowed from Emerson and carried out by later pragmatists, Holmes not only made it more likely that his dissents would remain alive for future judges or justices (because how they were written was itself memorable, whatever the value of their content), but also shaped our understanding of dissents and, in this, our understanding of law. By opening constitutional precedent to potential change, Holmes’s dissents made room for future thought, moving our understanding of legal concepts in a more pragmatic direction and away from formalistic understandings of law. Included in this new understanding is the idea that the “canon” of judicial cases involves oppositional positions that must be sustained if the law is to serve pragmatic purposes. This process of precedent-making in a common-law system resembles the construction of the literary canon as it is conceived by Harold Bloom and Richard Posner.
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This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes’s literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson’s thought: “superfluity” and the “poetics of transition,” concepts ascribed to Emerson and developed by literary critic Richard Poirier. Using this aesthetic style borrowed from Emerson and carried out by later pragmatists, Holmes not only made it more likely that his dissents would remain alive for future judges or justices (because how they were written was itself memorable, whatever the value of their content), but also shaped our understanding of dissents and, in this, our understanding of law. By opening constitutional precedent to potential change, Holmes’s dissents made room for future thought, moving our understanding of legal concepts in a more pragmatic direction and away from formalistic understandings of law. Included in this new understanding is the idea that the “canon” of judicial cases involves oppositional positions that must be sustained if the law is to serve pragmatic purposes. This process of precedent-making in a common-law system resembles the construction of the literary canon as it is conceived by Harold Bloom and Richard Posner.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 202
ISBN-13: 9781611487916
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1611487919
Udg. Dato: 14 dec 2016
Længde: 24mm
Bredde: 266mm
Højde: 161mm
Forlag: Bucknell University Press
Oplagsdato: 14 dec 2016
Forfatter(e): Allen Mendenhall
Forfatter(e) Allen Mendenhall


Kategori Retsvæsen: dømmende magt


ISBN-13 9781611487916


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Hardback


Sider 202


Udgave


Længde 24mm


Bredde 266mm


Højde 161mm


Udg. Dato 14 dec 2016


Oplagsdato 14 dec 2016


Forlag Bucknell University Press

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