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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2012) 39 (3): 7–27.
Published: 01 August 2012
.... © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 The Humility of Thought:
An Interview with Friedrich A. Kittler
E. Khayyat
EK: There is a story I heard you tell on a number of occasions—the story of
your relationship with Martin Heidegger...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2019) 46 (3): 23–45.
Published: 01 August 2019
...Stefan Tanaka This essay operates from a challenge that is evident in Miyoshi’s life and career, a humility of our knowledge system and the quest to exceed it. I suggest that Asia is trapped within a historical framing (as the Orient) that prevents people and places within Asia from extracting...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2000) 27 (1): 135–149.
Published: 01 February 2000
... it to Athenians twenty-five hundred years ago.
I stress this second foundation of tenure, because it seems to me
Tseng 2000.2.10 10:23
148 boundary 2 / Spring 2000
that the psychology of humility on which it depends...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2020) 47 (3): 165–168.
Published: 01 August 2020
... are these powerful portraits in The Rings of Saturn? Where are the figures that must be approached with utmost humility but nonethe- less radiate survival s potency? Who will the reader remember after reading The Rings of Saturn? Some blurry- lined pensioner dedicating his time to growing rare flowers? Some burned...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 141–155.
Published: 01 August 2003
...,
the laboratory, or the field, going there and looking for yourself, and then
telling the truth about what you’ve seen. That’s all it is, but very few people
have the courage and the patience and the humility for such work. It makes...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (3): 19–27.
Published: 01 August 2003
... hollow.
The NSS might aim for peace, but it amounts to a blueprint for a per-
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manent war. Gone is any trace of the humility that presidential candidate
Bush invoked in his foreign...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (1): 179–201.
Published: 01 February 2024
... which humanity finds itself today.” Chakrabarty's essay begins with an expression of humility, a recognition of the inapplicability of extant critical categories to climate disasters. 2. On the impossibility of imagining life after capitalism, see also Jameson 2003 : 76. 1. But see Marder...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2010) 37 (3): 5–28.
Published: 01 August 2010
... to an ideal of humility but as a Latin
intellectual who prizes stylistic refinement as the mark of social superi-
ority. As Megan Hale Williams has shown, Jerome struggled to reconcile
these conflicting sides of his identity in order to fashion himself as a Chris-
tian scholar, “clearly...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2024) 51 (2): 225–236.
Published: 01 May 2024
... than humility, self-realization rather than self-denial, caste rather than either the communion of saints or the individual soul” (150). This secret language of the outcast, superior minority would have seemed, I think, too Bloomsbury for Raymond Williams, and for an American perhaps merely...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 61–72.
Published: 01 August 2006
...,
which bears a striking resemblance to the Stoic vision of learned humility in
the face of the greater forces of society and life, which leads not to despair
or defeatism, however, but to a salutary realism, what Trilling identifies as
moral realism.
Baldwin’s life exemplifies the story...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (3): 33–46.
Published: 01 August 2007
... for ourselves.”
There are plenty of historians, political scientists, and journalists
who can tell us why we will lose the current war, but very few who can tell
us how—that is, how the humility induced by military defeat or stalemate
might be consistent with the promise of American...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 15–32.
Published: 01 November 2017
....
And that helps explain the emotional power these photos transmit.
They express a chastening, a humility in the face of time. One implicit corol-
lary of “I can’t remember” is “maybe it wasn’t as important as I thought it
was at the time.” Or important in the way I thought it was important. That
can...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2006) 33 (3): 3–20.
Published: 01 August 2006
... effectuated by my humility in accepting that I—even I!—
may have limitations and shortcomings. We tend to forget that the chief
obstacles to brotherhood (although as humanists our job is to identify these
obstacles) are our propensities to error, prejudice, and selfishness. Blake
(explicitly) and Bilgrami...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 27–46.
Published: 01 February 2009
... category has resurfaced
in Peter Sloterdijk’s recent post-Nietzschean anticommunist tome, Zorn
und Zeit).
Aside from its assertive advocacy of philosophical speculation against
any affectations of critical humility, the fortune of Badiou’s philosophy can
be chalked up to his marked...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2007) 34 (2): 217–238.
Published: 01 May 2007
...
“offending Heaven and injuring reason,” is all too appropriate. It reveals the
underlying indictment based on the unity of morality with “natural,” cosmic
law. The mandate of Heaven entails an awe-inspired humility before nature
and respect for its sublime design. In modern terms, nature must trans...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (1): 127–147.
Published: 01 February 2009
... with
reflections on his meetings with Rastafari. He writes,
I got knowledge from them, real knowledge. You have to speak to
Jamaican Rasta and you have to listen to him, listen and then you
will hear him tell you about the Word . . . and when you get that,
know you get humility...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2003) 30 (2): 195–216.
Published: 01 May 2003
... (the boomerang) comes
from an incorporated, minoritized Other.44 In the first chapter, the discourse
of progress is specified in the context of ‘‘separate but equal’’ racism. On the
narrator’s high school graduation day, as valedictorian, he ‘‘delivered an ora-
tion in which I showed that humility...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2023) 50 (3): 145–169.
Published: 01 August 2023
... to neglected topics such as divine affection and epistemic humility. 1. Neuwirth ( 2019 ) applies the same approach of inclusivity, situating the Qurʾan within the shared episteme of late antiquity, in her new study, The Qurʾan and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage . 2. See, for instance...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2022) 49 (2): 271–294.
Published: 01 May 2022
... over you. Thus, Brown argues that tolerance “iterates the normalcy of the powerful and the deviance of the marginal” (8). Its rhetoric of humility only “disguises power” (26) and enforces assumptions about those eligible for tolerance as exhibiting potentially unmanageable opinions, habits, or vested...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2011) 38 (3): 165–215.
Published: 01 August 2011
... in myself a soul as immense as the world, truly a soul as
deep as the deepest of rivers, my chest has the power to expand without
limit. I am a master and I am advised to adopt the humility of the cripple.
Yesterday awakening to the world, I saw the sky turn upon itself utterly...
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