Author: John Henry Wigmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
A Treatise on the System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law
Author: John Henry Wigmore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages : 1004
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The Un-Americans
Author: Joseph Litvak
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390841
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822390841
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
In a bold rethinking of the Hollywood blacklist and McCarthyite America, Joseph Litvak reveals a political regime that did not end with the 1950s or even with the Cold War: a regime of compulsory sycophancy, in which the good citizen is an informer, ready to denounce anyone who will not play the part of the earnest, patriotic American. While many scholars have noted the anti-Semitism underlying the House Un-American Activities Committee’s (HUAC’s) anti-Communism, Litvak draws on the work of Theodor W. Adorno, Hannah Arendt, Alain Badiou, and Max Horkheimer to show how the committee conflated Jewishness with what he calls “comic cosmopolitanism,” an intolerably seductive happiness, centered in Hollywood and New York, in show business and intellectual circles. He maintains that HUAC took the comic irreverence of the “uncooperative” witnesses as a crime against an American identity based on self-repudiation and the willingness to “name names.” Litvak proposes that sycophancy was (and continues to be) the price exacted for assimilation into mainstream American culture, not just for Jews, but also for homosexuals, immigrants, and other groups deemed threatening to American rectitude. Litvak traces the outlines of comic cosmopolitanism in a series of performances in film and theater and before HUAC, performances by Jewish artists and intellectuals such as Zero Mostel, Judy Holliday, and Abraham Polonsky. At the same time, through an uncompromising analysis of work by informers including Jerome Robbins, Elia Kazan, and Budd Schulberg, he explains the triumph of a stoolpigeon culture that still thrives in the America of the early twenty-first century.
Faking It
Author: William Ian Miller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521830188
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we are being agreeable, charitable, or decent. Why do we so often mistrust the motives of our own deeds, thinking them fake, though the beneficiary of them gives us full credit? Much of this book deals with that self-tormenting self-consciousness. It is about roles and identity, discussing our engagement in the roles we play, our doubts about our identities amidst this flux of roles, and thus about anxieties of authenticity.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521830188
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is about the intrusive fear that we may not be what we appear to be, or worse, that we may be only what we appear to be and nothing more. It is concerned with the worry of being exposed as frauds in our profession, cads in our love lives, as less than virtuously motivated actors when we are being agreeable, charitable, or decent. Why do we so often mistrust the motives of our own deeds, thinking them fake, though the beneficiary of them gives us full credit? Much of this book deals with that self-tormenting self-consciousness. It is about roles and identity, discussing our engagement in the roles we play, our doubts about our identities amidst this flux of roles, and thus about anxieties of authenticity.
North Carolina Reports
Author: North Carolina. Supreme Court
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Grovelling and Other Vices
Author: Alphons Silbermann
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485115444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Grovelling receives its first sociological treatment in this widely acclaimed work by the eminent German sociologist, Alphons Silbermann. According to Silbermann, grovelling, or arse-licking, is not a character trait but a model for action. It operates at the very centre of social mechanisms; and it is a process upon which any attempt to understand human arrangement must focus." "Furthermore, from analysing the arts of grovelling, sycophancy, duplicity and obsequiousness, we learn much about society, its ways of lies and flattery, cunning and deception, hypocrisy and baseness, false adulation and deliberate self-degradation. The author explains the purpose of grovelling and what you can do to protect yourself from it, and the methods of taking and avoiding the groveller's role."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9780485115444
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
"Grovelling receives its first sociological treatment in this widely acclaimed work by the eminent German sociologist, Alphons Silbermann. According to Silbermann, grovelling, or arse-licking, is not a character trait but a model for action. It operates at the very centre of social mechanisms; and it is a process upon which any attempt to understand human arrangement must focus." "Furthermore, from analysing the arts of grovelling, sycophancy, duplicity and obsequiousness, we learn much about society, its ways of lies and flattery, cunning and deception, hypocrisy and baseness, false adulation and deliberate self-degradation. The author explains the purpose of grovelling and what you can do to protect yourself from it, and the methods of taking and avoiding the groveller's role."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law
Author: David Shephard Garland
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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The Historians' History of the World
Author:
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Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 740
Book Description
“The” Historians' History of the World
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World history
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Historians' History of the World: Scotland, Ireland, England since 1792
Author: Henry Smith Williams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World History
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Educator; or, Home, the school, and the teacher, with the proceedings of the Congregational board of education [ed. by W. J. Unwin].
Author: William Jordan Unwin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 970
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