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...Joris van Eijnatten Duke University Press 2002 FROM MODESTY TO MEDIOCRITY Regulating Public Dispute, 1670–1840: The Case of Dutch Divines Joris van Eijnatten Charity and peace for all mankind are usually ranged among...

...Andrew P. Tuck Jencks Charles and Silver Nathan , Adhocism: The Case for Improvisation . ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2013 ), 232 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Johan Elverskog This article, part of a Common Knowledge symposium on “the consequence of blur,” concerns the place of religion in the historical literature on Asia. It finds a minimalist approach to religion in the case of Buddhism and a maximalist approach in the case of Islam: historians of Asia...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Darnton Robert , The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future ( New York : Public Affairs , 2009 ), 234 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn...

...Wayne Andersen © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Symposium: Devalued Currency, Part 2 why disinterest is still interesting The Case of Roger Fry Wayne Andersen Insofar as taste can be changed by one man...

...Patricia Crone 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Symposium: Imperial Trauma, Part 3 IMPERIAL TRAUMA: THE CASE OF THE ARABS Patricia Crone The symposium theme, “imperial trauma: the powerlessness of the powerful,” has a nice paradoxical...

...Caryl Emerson Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-06 Emerson 7/14/02 3:12 PM Page 482 LITERARY HUMILITY The Case of Russia under Its Old Regimes Caryl Emerson In his luminous reinaugural plea...

...William M. Chace Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Caplan Bryan , The Case against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 ), 395 pp. ...

... by Duke University Press 2012 WRITING RITUALS The Case of Aby Warburg Joseph Leo Koerner We recognize the object even if we cannot read it (fig. 1).1 It is a residue of writ- ing: a dog- eared title page of an old draft, penciled over...

...Eugene Ostashevsky “The Case of `The Yellow Notebook'” contains reminiscences of Wittgenstein's conversations with the philosopher Tatiana Gornshteyn (1904-80) on his visit to Leningrad in 1935. The reminiscences are contained in a document written by her daughter Ludmila. It records a story about...

...Francesca Trivellato [email protected] Carlo Ginzburg and Bruce Lincoln , Old Thiess, a Livonian Werewolf: A Classic Case in Comparative Perspective ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2020 ), 289 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 Social media have...

... and Jewish national identity. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik Oswald Rufeisen the case of “Brother Daniel ” Jewish identity anti-Semitism Common Knowledge 26:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-7899599 © 2020 by Duke University Press 88 S y m p o s i u m : Xe no p h i l...

...Lorraine Daston Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, eds., Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 287 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story...

..., including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. Magee treats each of these in turn, establishing case by case that the relation of the individual to the universal is the central issue of German thought, as it is of quietist thinking generally. The identity...

... argument is that there is a range of styles of noncoherence or “modes of syncretism.” In small case studies, the authors identify six such modes or styles, which they term denial, domestication, separation, care, conflict , and collapse . Given that consistency and coherence seem less important now than...

...-as-participant, this comment relates Stengers's argument to Verran's own work in contexts where the epistemic practices of science are challenged—in science lessons in Nigeria (case 1) and in episodes where environmental scientists try to work with Aboriginal Australian landowners (case 2). Drawing inspiration...

... importance of the dramatic text across different types of theater, including those termed post-dramatic. For what has changed in the case of theater groups such as the Wooster Group that are associated with post-dramatic theater is not that they discard the dramatic text, but rather that they envision...

... of identity, what then might its politics be? By comparing Strathern's Melanesian case with ethnographic examples in Corsica and Mongolia, a novel relational modality of “intensive ethnicity” may be identified, one that differs qualitatively from the “extensive ethnicity” with which anthropologists have...

... among indigenous actors. Although these processes are mostly absent from colonial or later sources, they should not remain foreign to ethnology, as the three empirical cases analyzed in this essay show. Methodologically, the essay asks why the regulatory image of Rousseau's small community, meeting face...

...Mercedes García-Arenal This contribution to a symposium “on the consequence of blur” deals with the case of Agustín de Ribera and his followers in sixteenth-century Castile. Inquisition trial records report the appearance, around 1535 among the Moriscos (Catholic converts of Muslim origin...