...Martin Holbraad This response to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's article, “The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy,” presents some thoughts on how the debates about “relativism” upon which Smith comments could be refigured in the light of this symposium's theme of “comparative relativism...

...Casper Bruun Jensen Abstract Over the last decade, the Anthropocene has overrun the discourses of the humanities and social sciences. Remarkably, two of the most astute commentators, the cross‐disciplinary theorist Barbara Herrnstein Smith and the unorthodox philosopher Isabelle Stengers, find...

...Casper Bruun Jensen; Barbara Herrnstein Smith; G. E. R. Lloyd; Martin Holbraad; Andreas Roepstorff; Isabelle Stengers; Helen Verran; Steven D. Brown; Brit Ross Winthereik; Marilyn Strathern; Bruce Kapferer; Annemarie Mol; Morten Axel Pedersen; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro; Matei Candea; Debbora...

...G. E. R. Lloyd This piece is a response to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's article, “The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy,” in the Common Knowledge symposium on “comparative relativism.” The theme is complexity—as distinct from simple contrast or binarism of any kind—similarities as well...

...Andreas Roepstorff In responding to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's article, “The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy,” this essay addresses a number of recently published research papers attempting to identify the neuronal correlates of cultural selves. However, underlying these studies...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay is a critical examination of the charge of self-refutation, particularly as leveled by orthodoxy-defending philosophers against those maintaining epistemologically unorthodox, especially relativistic or skeptical, views. Beginning...

...Barry Allen; Richard Rorty; Nicholas Gaskill; Chris Voparil; Barbara Herrnstein Smith Abstract This essay introduces a running symposium on the work of Richard Rorty and its legacy fifteen years after his passing. The arc of Rorty's thought defines a trajectory through American pragmatism, tracing...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith [email protected] Martin Kusch , Katherina Kinzel , Johannes Steizinger , and Niels Wildschut , eds., The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism ( London : Routledge , 2019 ), 258 pp. Copyright © 2022...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Latour Bruno , An Inquiry into Modes of Existence: An Anthropology of the Moderns , trans. Porter Catherine . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 520 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith In this response to comments on “The Chimera of Relativism,” her article in the same Common Knowledge issue, by cognitive neuroscientist Andreas Roepstorff, classicist G. E. R. Lloyd, and anthropologist Martin Holbraad, Smith begins by describing her experiences visiting...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Comparative Relativisim,” Smith argues that relativism is a chimera, half straw man, half red herring. Over the past century, she shows, objections to the supposed position so named have typically involved either...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Advocates of literary Darwinism, cognitive cultural studies, neuroaesthetics, digital humanities, and other such hybrid fields now seek explicitly to make the aims and methods of one or another humanities discipline approximate more closely the aims and methods of science...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Duke University Press 2007 S y m p o s i u m : A “ D i c t a t o r s h i p o f R e l a t i v i s m ” ? RELATIVISM, TODAY AND YESTERDAY Barbara Herrnstein Smith In view of the occasion, the genre of discourse in which...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Abstract Richard Rorty's rejection of prevailing interior‐mirror understandings of the presumed relationship between “minds” and “nature,” along with his promotion of nonrepresentational accounts of knowledge, truth, and science, participates in a rich tradition of jointly...

... .    – Common Knowledge 148 Barbara Herrnstein Smith, “Unloading the Self- the “Unloading Smith, Herrnstein Barbara  95...

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...); and (as coeditor, with Liliane Lopez-Rabatel) Sortition and Democracy: Practices, Tools, Theories . Barbara Herrnstein Smith , Braxton Craven Professor emerita of English and comparative literature at Duke University and founder of its Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory...

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... Herrnstein Smith , Braxton Craven Professor of English and Comparative Literature emerita at Duke University and founder of its Center for Interdisciplinary Studies in Science and Cultural Theory, is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an honorary fellow of the American Association...

... Kristeva, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, David Bloor, Christopher Norris, Daniel Boyarin, Jeffrey M. Perl, Kenneth J. Gergen, Richard Shusterman, Jeffrey Stout, Jeffrey F. Hamburger, Mary Baine Campbell, Lorraine Daston, Arnold I. Davidson, John Forrester...