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...Denis Donoghue Robert Alter, The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 518 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy? From...

...Andrew P. Tuck Tsong Khapa, Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, trans. Geshe Ngawang Samten and Jay L. Garfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 632 pp. Duke University Press 2009...

...Richard Jenkyns Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Kraus Christina S. Stray Christopher , eds., Classical Commentaries: Explorations in a Scholarly Genre ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 ), 592 pp. ...

...Brit Ross Winthereik This commentary on Isabelle Stengers's article “Comparison as a Matter of Concern,” takes its entry point in a battle between comparisons: imposed comparisons, where extraneous, irrelevant criteria are laid down, and active, interested comparisons, where rapport is established...

...Shaul Magid This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia examines the life choices of two Jews who loved Christianity. Elijah Zvi Soloveitchik, born into an ultra-Orthodox, nineteenth-century rabbinic dynasty in Lithuania, spent much of his life writing a Hebrew commentary...

...Morten Axel Pedersen This commentary on Marilyn Strathern's article, “Binary License,” discusses certain implications of her assertion that intertribal relationships among urban migrants in Papua New Guinea are not “ethnic.” For if such social encounters do not involve a conventional politics...

... relations; these form the foundation of postdevelopment action in this part of the world and orient actors' “postures of attention” to power relations. Second, this commentary raises questions concerning arrows—archetypal of the protentive element of Amerindian “speculative ontology” and, as such, symbolic...

....” If the notion of relativism can be rendered relative unto itself, as the notion of a “comparative” relativism would seem to suggest, then how might one understand its “position” within the kinds of debates in which Smith's paper, by way of commentary, also participates? In particular, if part of Smith's aim...

...Steven D. Brown This commentary on Isabelle Stengers's article, “Comparison as a Matter of Concern” is an assessment of her stance toward experimental psychology. At the various points in her work where she considers that discipline, she tends to accuse it of failing to embrace the “risk” that she...

... on the interior life of her heroine limits explicit political commentary, her allusions to miserably unhappy queens-consort cast marriage diplomacy in an overwhelmingly negative light. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 peacemaking marriage diplomacy Madame de La Fayette Saint-Réal history...

... Englishman was central to his political campaigns and political thought and was an important element of his published Leveller tracts. Much commentary on the Levellers has emphasized their demand for annual parliaments elected on a broad franchise and equal distribution of seats. But these constitutional...

... should focus on a continuous and persistent analytical effort to resist despair by “insisting properly.” This commentary, by one of three authors on whom the original article focused, contrasts Jensen's emphasis on insistence with the idea of ethnography as response . The reconceptualization...

... commentaries titled “The Birth of the Author,” responding to Roland Barthes's well-known essay “The Death of the Author,” published in 1984 and cited repeatedly since. What can it mean to see new, self-conscious awareness of the act of personal creation in works that are copies by scribes of other works...

..., together with my guitarist husband, I got to hear him perform after hours at the Gaslight and knew him well enough to say Hi when passing on the street. Every song has its commentary, but nothing about this organization is stable, and as soon as the reader/listener thinks she has discovered a rationale...

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