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...Richard Rorty Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community , trans. Jeffrey Flynn (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 253 pp. © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S...

...Mitchell Cohen Esposito Roberto , Communitas: The Origin and Destiny of Community , trans. Campbell Timothy ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2009 ), 192 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

... Irigaray, Between East and West: From Singularity to Community (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 148 pp. We Westerners, and some Easterners, appropriate inappropriately. Irigaray’s the- sis is that we regard the sexual other, and if a reader begins...

... of communities. Demands for harmony are performatively integrated into social practices. The authors argue that, rather than searching for a scale of sociality where harmony might be “organic,” it is necessary to critically assess proclamations of and demands for harmony as means of coercion even within small...

...Lars Laird Iversen Abstract This guest column in Common Knowledge presents the concept of “communities of disagreement” to an international and interdisciplinary audience, perhaps for the first time. It takes as its starting point the contrast between agonistic and deliberative democratic theories...

... on her subtitle Little Magazine Communities rather than on Seita's claim to rethink the meaning of avant-garde , this is a genuinely valuable book, rediscovering and realigning literary communities so as to give us a better sense of the imagination and energy that characterized offbeat poetry...

...Maya Jasanoff Leela Gandhi, Affective Communities: Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006), 254 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...

...Dale V. Kent Wickham Chris , Sleepwalking into a New World: The Emergence of Italian City Communes in the Twelfth Century . ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 ), 305 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Henry Kamen Stanley G. Payne, The Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union, and Communism (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004), 400 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg...

...Santiago Zabala Bosteels Bruno , The Actuality of Communism ( London : Verso , 2011 ), 304 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Meacham June L. , Sacred Communities, Shared Devotions: Gender, Material Culture, and Monasticism in Late Medieval Germany , ed. Beach Alison I. , Berman Constance H. , and Bitel Lisa M. , intro. Bitel . ( Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols , 2014 ), 307 pp...

... it is possible that a rational examination of motives and sources pertaining to a misunderstanding may help to minimize its undesirable effects upon communication, a misunderstanding may also signal the incontrovertible and irresolvable nature of a disagreement. This paper, therefore—while basically Habermasian...

... their use in communication, when they function as media. The cultural techniques of mathematics, known to and used by all members of that culture, are media that, through intensity of communication, add symbolic functions to mere procedures. (The prototypical example of a cultural technique, in this sense...

... and, more recently, the New Urbanism. Despite the conventional separations of modernism from the more criticized mass-housing development, the same principles of security, shelter, community, and utopia are present in each. Presented by some architects as a postmodernist aesthetic, the central tenets...

... that includes many mausoleums of Muslim saints and other Muslim holy places visited by Christians. The rationale and logic of such exopraxes is wild hope (in the Lévi-Straussian sense of wild ). Pilgrims from one religious community travel to the sacred place of another not so much for communication or contact...

...Roy Wagner This essay asks: Is “culture” the subject of a communication among anthropologists, or are anthropologists subjects to a communication among cultures? Put more simply, is there only one culture, comprised of multiplex variations recovered from various parts of an ever-changing world...

... Indian masters, both Hindu and Muslim, and concluded that it is the shared concept of a “sound-god” that brings them together on stage in peaceful celebration with audiences from religious communities often at odds. The author’s training in ethnomusicology began in India in 1992, immediately after...

... with “progressive” or “countercultural” inclinations, especially those with strong environmental concerns and those interested in new forms of community and spirituality. For such Jews, Native Americans serve as mirror, prod, role model, projection, and fictive kin. They are regarded as having a holistic...

.... 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...

... vote of elected officials, a rigorous system of accountability, and the fostering of civic and community values. 5. Cartledge, “Antipolitics,” 191 . 6. See in particular Rosivach, “Autochthony and the Athenians.” 7. All translations from Greek are my own. Copyright © 2023...