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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 422.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Albert R. Jonsen; Jeffrey M. Perl Dunne Joseph , Back to the Rough Ground: “Phronesis” and “Techne” in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle ( Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1993 ), 492 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 324–330.
Published: 01 August 2009
..., and, ultimately, to achieve some kind of justice. Duke University Press 2009 columns
NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
(AND -FIVE)
A Brit Looks Back
Aidan O’Neill
“Smash the law. We want justice!” This is a slogan I remember seeing waved...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 354–355.
Published: 01 April 2020
... doi 10.1215/0961754X-8196803 Bryan W. Van Norden, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto (New York: Columbia University Press, 2017), 216 pp. Van Norden s manifesto tries to do two things that do not have much to do with each other. One is to excoriate the White Privilege that dominates...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 346–350.
Published: 01 April 2010
... at” (acknowledge) things, some things bow back at me, and I must treat whatever bows back as if it were like me. Unlike James Lovelock, a passage from whose work they discuss, Hache and Latour understand this picture in a sense that is essentially “honorary.” The picture or premise they propose sets up, they admit...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 April 2014
.... Zwicky's experimental deployment of polyphonic textual structures to render her conception of a patterned and resonant whole is, Hobbs argues, part of a tradition, going back to ancient Greece, of radical philosophers struggling to express themselves without pragmatic self-refutation. In particular, Hobbs...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 181–196.
Published: 01 April 2009
... exploring aspects of the Idealist tradition in German philosophy which, also emerging from the challenge of the French Revolution, found positive terms and complex human explanations for behaviour that held back from definite political commitment. It concludes by suggesting the terms quietist and quietism...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 523–532.
Published: 01 August 2009
... lessons in cause and effect. Still, it makes sense, as with this essay, that we look back on such financial follies of the past, as epitomized by Holland's tulipmania, and take comfort in finding that our follies are just enough different from historical ones to at least claim them as our very own...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 387–418.
Published: 01 August 2012
... many decades of provincial Stalinism, Havel brought Czech history back to the path of greatness on which T. G. Masaryk had set it in the first part of the twentieth century. © 2012 by Adam Michnik 2012 Column
WHEN...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 21–24.
Published: 01 January 2023
... as “we atheists,” by which he seems to have meant “those of us repelled by extravagant or overheated claims and absolutes.” His tendency was thus to pull back in what might seem to be bored alarm from treatments of science as superior, perilous, or in any essential way different from other forms...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 381–395.
Published: 01 September 2017
..., and emergent back-and-forth between a multiplicity of actors, variously human and nonhuman. The author's concern in this new essay is with apparently stable and dependable technologies, such as cars, computers, and power stations, which he conceptualizes here as “islands of stability” in the flux of becoming...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 280–290.
Published: 01 April 2018
..., he returned to England, then moved back to Ireland where he had been born, and, after much discernment, converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Jesuit. He returned to India as a Jesuit missionary in 1901. In his remarkable though neglected autobiography, From Evangelical to Catholic by Way...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 105–123.
Published: 01 January 2008
... and the concept of the masterpiece have narrowed musical thinking harmfully. We need to look back at the fruitful collegiality that existed between canonic and contemporary music in the early nineteenth century, involving as it did a wide array of composers and tastes not yet bound by rigid assumptions about...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 January 2013
... by Paul Cézanne and Pieter Bruegel, poems by Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden. The essay argues that each self-deluding “reality” we construct is only temporary, destined to fall back into the elusive, undifferentiated zone of overlap and ambiguity from which it has emerged. Therefore, the author urges, we...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Written in Hungarian not long before his death in 2019, Konrád goes back in this essay to the period following the arrest of his parents after the German invasion of Hungary. Aged eleven, he was able to escape the small town where he was born—and hence the fate of its entire Jewish community. “The others...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 363–370.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Chris Briggs What happens when a debtor does not pay back what he or she owes? As Margaret Atwood's chapter on “The Shadow Side” shows, the unpaid debt—in the broadest sense—is a recurring theme of history and literature. This review essay looks at the fourteenth-century village, a world which...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 511–517.
Published: 01 August 2014
...” that James II was attempting to reinstate Stuart “popery and arbitrary government” and instead presents James II's policies as aimed at liberation of the Stuart monarchy from the borough, county, and clerical elites that had brought it back to power and regarded restoration of the Church of England...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 229–238.
Published: 01 April 2012
... discourse that we can shift back and forth between several logics — several organized ways of reasoning, of providing reasons or grounds for our claims. Building on previous work on Hegel's dialectical logic, the author here identifies three distinct logics simultaneously in play in our conversations...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 40–85.
Published: 01 January 2021
... offer to progressive Jews parallels and contrasts to contemporary Jewishness and Judaism. For some, Native America has become a path back to a reconstructed Jewishness and Judaism; for others, a path away. Each path is assessed in this article with respect to questions of authenticity, psychobiography...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 45–104.
Published: 01 January 2008
... and nineteenth centuries (David, Flaxman, Carstens) and their theorist Winckelmann, going back meant going forward—beyond illusionism. The obscurity into which Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Peter Cornelius, and Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld have fallen raises questions about the degree to which the long...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 216–223.
Published: 01 May 2022
... here, “he would have to look back on his biography from after death” — and in this piece he hauntingly does so. Explaining that he composed his first autobiography upon being expelled from university in Hungary after Stalin's death in 1953, he defines the process as “the main event in the ritual...
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