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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 141–171.
Published: 01 January 2015
... by formulating them in terms of the “right” rather than the “good.” Further, the essay shows how the German word Pflicht , central to Kant's ethics, does not correspond in meaning to the English word duty , whose cultural roots lie in English Puritanism. More generally, the argument is that, ultimately, “common...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 124–135.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., whether in the academic or the political realm, is to persuade the person or people addressed to adopt a particular course of action. The concept of frank speaking, or parrhesia , first appeared among the Greeks as a political virtue, one exercised among free men in the public assembly for the common good...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 548–549.
Published: 01 August 2002
...Clifford Geertz Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-10 Reviews 7/14/02 3:13 PM Page 548
LITTLE REVIEWS
Tzvetan Todorov, Life in Common, trans. Katherine Golsan and Lucy Golsan
(Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001), 174 pp...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 132–136.
Published: 01 January 2003
...Christopher Jones Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.1-10 Jones 10/31/02 10:36 AM Page 132
THE TIES OF OUR
COMMON KINDRED
Christopher Jones
Everyone knows the aphorism that truth is the first casualty...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 104.
Published: 01 January 2017
...Barry Allen Jemielniak Dariusz , Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2014 ), 293 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 LITTLE REVIEWS
Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 552–553.
Published: 01 August 2012
...Philip Gossett Tymoczko Dmitri , A Geometry of Music: Harmony and Counterpoint in the Extended Common Practice ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2010 ), 480 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 346–347.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Frank Kermode; Jeffrey M. Perl This retitled excerpt from Frank Kermode’s introduction to the symposium “Beyond Post-: A Revaluation of the Revaluation of All Values” ( Common Knowledge 1:3 [Winter 1992]: 10–12) is republished here in a special issue of representative pieces from the journal’s...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 21–42.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Eduardo Viveiros de Castro; Jeffrey M. Perl Originally published in 2004 in the Common Knowledge symposium “Talking Peace with Gods,” this article elaborates the nature and consequences of the perspectivist cosmologies of Amerindian societies. Contemporary Western cosmologies regard humans as ex...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 31–47.
Published: 01 January 2010
...W. Caleb McDaniel In common usage, quietism is often conflated with passivity, and pacifism is often equated with quietism. As a result, pacifism has often been confused with passivity. In the antebellum United States, John Brown and other militant abolitionists who endorsed the use of violent...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 206–215.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Jeffrey M. Perl Abstract In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge introduces a long‐term project titled “Antipolitics: Symposium in Memory of György Konrád.” Konrád, who died in 2019, was a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board, and the symposium is meant to find present‐day...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 366–379.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Richard Rorty Abstract Among Rorty's most admired essays, and probably his most autobiographical, “Trotsky and the Wild Orchids” made its first appearance as a column in Common Knowledge during the journal's inaugural year. Here it is reprinted, thirty years later, in a symposium called “Whatever...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 216–223.
Published: 01 May 2022
...György Konrád; Jim Tucker Abstract Originally published in Common Knowledge 11, no. 2 (Fall 2005), this essay is reprinted in 2022 as the prelude to the first installment of a project titled “Antipolitics” and dedicated to the author's memory. “To really know” what a writer “is like,” Konrád writes...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 65–87.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 88–95.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Karen Pinkus In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” the words ambiguity, ambivalence , and ambience are shown to share the common prefix, from Latin, ambi -, defined in most modern dictionaries as “around, on both sides.” Ambi captures...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 225–231.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Jeffrey M. Perl; Humberto Garcia; Noa Halevy; Peter Valdina In this introduction to the first installment of the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, the editor explains the rationale of the new project, citing increases in aggressive xenophobia internationally. He comments on the intergroup...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 440–467.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Edith Bruder A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, this article examines the ethnic groups (more than a dozen) on the African continent that have proclaimed their connections to ancient Israel and have developed versions of their tribal histories that place them as a part...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 389–396.
Published: 01 August 2018
...—in keeping with the project’s international, interdisciplinary, and innovative working methods. This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Inside the Humanities Classroom” represents individual perspectives on a dynamic and demanding group project that the participants feel, in retrospect, had much...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 415–429.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Youval Rotman As a contribution to the second installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “In the Humanities Classroom,” this essay describes a four-hour meeting of an undergraduate seminar on historiography at Tel Aviv University. The students and instructor alike are enabled, by analyzing...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 1–8.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl In this introduction to the silver anniversary issue of Common Knowledge , the journal’s founding editor explains the unusual format of CK 25:1–3. Arranged in eleven “conversations” of pieces published since 1992, the format fulfills a promise made in that year...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 441–449.
Published: 01 August 2011
...Jeffrey M. Perl; Natalie Zemon Davis; Barry Allen In this introduction to Part 1 of the Common Knowledge symposium, “Fuzzy Studies,” the journal's editor discusses four essays from the 1980s by Richard Rorty, in which Rorty chose to associate himself with various neopragmatists, Continental...
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