This book investigates the extent to which various scholarly labels
are appropriate for the work of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. As Louis
Menand wrote, "Holmes has been called a formalist, a positivist, a
utilitarian, a realist, a historicist, a pragmatist, (not to
mention a nihilist)." Each of the eight chapters investigates one
label, analyzes the secondary texts that support the use of the
term to characterize Holmes's philosophy, and takes a stand on
whether or not the category is appropriate for Holmes by assessing
his judicial and nonjudicial publications, including his books,
articles, and posthumously published correspondences. The thrust of
the collection as a whole, nevertheless, bends toward the stance
that Holmes is a pragmatist in his jurisprudence, ethics, and
politics. The final chapter, by Susan Haack, makes that case
explicitly. Edited by Seth Vannatta, this book will be of
particular interest to students and faculty working in law,
jurisprudence, philosophy, intellectual history, American Studies,
political science, and constitutional theory.
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