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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 555.
Published: 01 August 2010
...William M. Chace Michèle Lamont, How Professors Think: Inside the Curious World of Academic Judgment (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 330 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 42–49.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Linda Hutcheon CK 9.1-05 Hutcheon 10/31/02 10:28 AM Page 42 RHETORIC AND COMPETITION Academic Agonistics Linda Hutcheon To begin, a confession: I take the first part of my title from an embarrassing ver...
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (1): 126–135.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Hilary Putnam; János Boros Duke University Press 2005 ARTICLES: Ref resh ing Ph i l osophy PHILOSOPHY SHOULD NOT BE JUST AN ACADEMIC DISCIPLINE A Dialogue with Hilary Putnam Hilary Putnam and János Boros János Boros...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 385–389.
Published: 01 September 2023
... and 1952, a very great deal happened, personally as well as politically and academically, in Finkelstein's life: he taught at New York's Cooper Union; he became politically active on the Far Left, campaigning for, among other causes, Russian refugee relief; he published two scholarly articles in leading...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 124–135.
Published: 01 January 2008
...Glenn Holland Speaking freely is considered an essential component of academic freedom and freedom of inquiry. Unfortunately, historically as well as currently, the right to speak freely has often resulted in polemics and disputes between scholars. But the entire purpose of frankness in speech...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 31–36.
Published: 01 January 2011
... is to defuse some of the unfair thoughts that have fueled the antirelativist industry in academia, then how might one think of the character of such “anti-anti-“moves themselves? What manner of academic debate does a properly relative notion of relativity allow for? The response herein to these questions takes...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 211–216.
Published: 01 April 2013
... between two eminent academic leaders of the last century, Jacques Barzun of Columbia and Frederick Terman of Stanford. Employing data generated by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute for Higher Education and Times Higher Education , Cole shows that universities are today ranked in order...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 1–4.
Published: 01 January 2016
...Richard Shiff Academics generate circles of thought. Their preferred modes of conceptualization—the intellectual constructions in circulation within academic discourse at a given moment—readily pass across disciplinary boundaries. During the past two centuries, philosophical critique...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 178–180.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida “Publish or perish” is an admonition that academics learn early in their careers. In this essay—a guest column—the author, a young academic, argues instead that publishing is a means of dignifying the discontinuity of the self. One both publishes and perishes...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 19–56.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Adir H. Petel Mikhail Epstein's essay “Inventive Thinking in the Humanities,” also published in the January 2017 issue of Common Knowledge , argues that the humanities are in crisis because humanist academics have “turned away from human beings and focused on texts.” Expanding on this point while...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 278–284.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., and he considers as well the pressures generated by the development of online publication. He further tells cautionary tales, from his own experience, that underscore how important it is that the public stewards of scholarship and literature at academic presses not make hasty decisions about what titles...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 165–168.
Published: 01 April 2019
...G. W. Bowersock; Jeffrey M. Perl This response to two academic conferences—“Local Knowledge and Microidentities,” held in England in 2004, and “Patrie d’origine et patries électives,” held in France in 2009—argues that “the idea of the local can only arise from a supralocal perspective” and, thus...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to relativize what different peoples—say, Western academics and Amerindian shamans—compare things “for.” Jensen concludes that what is compared and relativized in this symposium are the methods of comparison and relativization themselves. He ventures that the contributors all hope that treating these terms...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 292–311.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Avinoam Rosenak For some years now, an opposition has been drawn, not only among Israeli academics but among politicians and journalists as well, between Jewish nationalist or Zionist thought and the kind of thinking that is called “postmodern.” The argument is that a Zionist cannot...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 April 2013
... in the Middle East — so, too, did Irwin ignore more worldly German Orientalists such as Max von Oppenheim and Curt Prüfer, whose covert activities on behalf of Berlin did not fit his own counterthesis that Orientalism, pace Said, “in its most important aspect was founded upon academic drudgery.” The “hack...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 154–163.
Published: 01 January 2013
... Schnackenberg) and connects this development to the nostalgia evidenced in Duncan's occultism. Placing the New Critics with the poets Karl Shapiro and Richard Wilbur, Duncan dismisses them all as “academics” and “descendants of those ministers of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, holding out against...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 164–170.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Wayne Andersen This review essay emphasizes the distinction between academic art history, based ultimately on the model of scientific research, and the sort that Roberto Calasso practices in his 2009 study Tiepolo in Pink . It is difficult to locate the book's genre, and the reviewer rejects...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 373–378.
Published: 01 September 2015
... represent an important step forward for both sectors. Such projects further academic research interests, in the process helping scholars to become effective social actors, and they help companies to better navigate commercial risks by advancing their understanding of the cultural conditions in which...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2016
... be compared with the efforts of credentialed philosophers. In this emergent conceptual practice, moreover, the work of academic philosophers is open to elaboration and correction in response to the findings of tribal and Western marginal thinkers. Among the developers of anthropological philosophy are said...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 431–452.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., is a more effective way of approaching them. The latter sort of interpretation entails another risk, however, which is that concepts like those of Roberts may get taken for mere illustrations of the arguments made by academic philosophers, whereas marginal thinking of Roberts's kind can form sophisticated...