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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 337–338.
Published: 01 April 2015
...Emily Budick Rudrum David , Stanley Cavell and the Claim of Literature . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 ), 285 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 responsive to the text rather than declarative about its meaning. He raises ques He raises aboutmeaning...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 57–58.
Published: 01 January 2017
... popular and unsupported claim that the humanities have practical relevance and, instead, to offer ruminative descriptions of what happens when teachers and students meet to discuss texts and objects. She explains that the essays report in detail on five individual classes in five very different academic...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 176–191.
Published: 01 April 2019
... of modern experimental sciences. These sciences usually serve as the stronghold for universalist claims and as such are a target of relativism. It is argued here that the specificity of these sciences is not a method but a concern . To be able to claim that they have not unilaterally imposed...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
... experimental sciences. These sciences usually serve as the stronghold for universalist claims and as such are a target of relativism. It is argued that the specificity of these sciences is not a method but a concern. To be able to claim that they have not unilaterally imposed their definitions on the phenomena...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 488–499.
Published: 01 September 2016
...David Bloor This essay is a follow-up to a previous article by the author, “Epistemic Grace: Antirelativism as Theology in Disguise,” published in Common Knowledge 13, nos. 2–3 (2007): 250–80. Its central claim was that relativism and absolutism should be understood as categories that are mutually...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 380–401.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Nicholas Gaskill Abstract As the leading contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?,” this essay asks why Rorty was so often taken to be saying things that he claimed he was not. The argument is that Rorty's rhetorical approach and jargon engendered...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 25–40.
Published: 01 January 2023
...James J. Bono Abstract As a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?,” this essay elucidates how Isabelle Stengers's signature idea of an “ecology of practices” offers a way to establish claims to expertise and—within limits that are, in effect, the limits...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 351–360.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Mark Rowlands Émilie Hache and Bruno Latour argue in their article “Morality or Moralism?” that contemporary moral treatments of animals exhibit a hard-won insensitivity, and a corresponding inability to respond, to the “call” of animals—to the moral claims that animals legitimately make on us...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 April 2014
... to god. Zwicky's depiction of a generalized “analytic” philosopher may also be thought oversimplified: few analytic philosophers, if any, would claim that meaning can only be “linguistic in form,” and it is unclear what is meant by “technocratically acceptable prose.” Nevertheless, Zwicky's claim...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 229–268.
Published: 01 April 2009
... of the halakha built upon partial and limited evaluations of the law's truth-claims. It argues that rabbinic debating generates multiple understandings for every detail of the law that entangle and conceal any ultimate sense of the law from view. The result is a legal system that is modest about its conclusions...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 357–363.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Roger Cardinal Etchegaray; Translated by Mei Lin Chang; Jeffrey M. Perl Cardinal Etchegaray argues here that the dialogue between church and state, with both parties rooted in sometimes conflicting absolute claims and values, has become more recently a wider-ranging dialogue between the church...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 364–377.
Published: 01 April 2019
... generation mythologized the Nazi period as a criminal abyss. If this strategy allowed the government of the Federal Republic to assume legal responsibility for reparation claims, it also served to release individuals from working through their own painful pasts. This stage yielded to a second phase, one...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 163–164.
Published: 01 April 2019
... to them, but it claims as well that Ginzburg’s “combination of erudition and piercing intelligence is irresistible.” Copyright © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Carlo Ginzburg historiography storytelling microhistory ...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 45–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Albert O. Hirschman; Jeffrey M. Perl In a survey spanning over half a century of his own work, Hirschman, among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century on political economy, celebrates the ability to undermine one’s own claims and theories. Whereas skepticism toward other people’s...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 63–75.
Published: 01 April 2019
... philosophy to early German Romantic hermeneutics and literary theory to substantiate a claim that unresolvable disagreement exists even amid consensus. “Every consensus,” Frank writes in explication of Friedrich Schleiermacher, “contains a residual misunderstanding that will never entirely go away...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 321–331.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Bernard Williams; Jeffrey M. Perl Writing in the wake of the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, the moral philosopher Bernard Williams considers the opposing claims of Rawlsian liberalism, with its emphasis on pluralism and procedural fairness, and communitarianism, which instead promotes...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 171–175.
Published: 01 May 2021
...Colin Richmond Abstract On the basis of reports that Jan van Eyck visited England (he was well traveled in the service of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy), this essay speculates freely on what the diplomat and painter actually did in and around London for three weeks in 1428. The essay claims...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 354–367.
Published: 01 August 2021
... that claims a new freedom of imagination in the attempt to transcend the most stubborn of memory wars. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Poland European poetry Holocaust memorials Zuzanna Ginczanka Non omnis moriar multaque pars mei vitabit Libitinam — Horace 3.30...
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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 (2011) 17 (1): 13–26.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... Although there are signs that this tragicomic episode of intellectual history has run its course, two contemporary sites of antirelativist energy are worth noting. One is the claim that so-called cultural relativism is refuted by the existence of cognitive universals. The other is the fear that evaluative...