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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (3): 485–517.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Jeffrey J. Kripal Duke University Press 2004 Symposium: Talking Peace with Gods, Part 1
COMPARATIVE MYSTICS
Scholars as Gnostic Diplomats
Jeffrey J. Kripal
It is not difficult to see why Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitan viewpoint would inspire...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (2): 415–416.
Published: 01 April 2002
... somewhat
less compelling than the overall thesis, but Mémoire du mal is a brilliant and
deeply moving book that deserves the widest dissemination.
—Marjorie Perloff
Harold Fisch, The Biblical Presence in Shakespeare, Milton and Blake:
A Comparative Study (Oxford: Clarendon, 1999), 331 pp...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (1): 66–92.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Sanjay Subrahmanyam 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 Symposium: Imperial Trauma, Part 3
A TALE OF THREE EMPIRES
Mughals, Ottomans, and Habsburgs
in a Comparative Context
Sanjay Subrahmanyam
The recent spate of writings...
Journal Article
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 212.
Published: 01 January 2002
... Fagenblat
Zhang Liang, compiler, and Andrew Nathan, ed., The Tiananmen Papers
(New York: Public Affairs, 2001), 513 pp.
In the past century, two comparable political movements on the streets of Bei-
jing substantially affected the history of China: the May...
Journal Article
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2011
... Battaglia; Roy Wagner This introduction to the Common Knowledge symposium titled “Comparative Relativism” outlines a variety of intellectual contexts where placing the unlikely companion terms comparison and relativism in conjunction offers analytical purchase. If comparison, in the most general sense...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 104–110.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Bruce Kapferer This piece addresses Marilyn Strathern's article, “Binary License,” and the important contribution she makes to the development of an anthropology that is truly comparative and that aims to escape some important disadvantages of an earlier relativism. This comment places her...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 390–391.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Patricia Crone Renard John , Islam and Christianity: Theological Themes in Comparative Perspective ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 ), 344 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS
Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 167.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Alastair Hamilton Grafton Anthony Most Glenn W. , eds., Canonical Texts and Scholarly Practices: A Global Comparative Approach ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 ), 388 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 442.
Published: 01 August 2018
...John Boardman Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Martin Rebecca , The Art of Contact: Comparative Approaches to Greek and Phoenician Art ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2017 ), 282 pp. ...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 January 2024
... coedited volume Gender and Religion (1986), the first of its kind, has figured importantly in the development of the field many call comparative religion. Here Bynum's impact on selected scholars of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh religion — as well as of non‐Western Christianity — is assessed...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 178–187.
Published: 01 January 2002
...Marcel Detienne Duke University Press 2002 Translated by Ashraf Noor MURDEROUS IDENTITY
Anthropology, History, and the Art of
Constructing Comparables
Marcel Detienne
Translated by Ashraf Noor...
Journal Article
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 77–81.
Published: 01 January 2011
... between the scientist and the phenomenon she studies. According to Stengers, the comparison, which establishes rapport, is a crucial ingredient in good science. In the context of a symposium titled “Comparative Relativism,” perhaps the crucial point to make about what characterizes Stengers's matter...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 474–492.
Published: 01 August 2010
...N. Verbin A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism,” this article compares the worldview of Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) and the quietism that it presumably entails to the early Wittgenstein's worldview and his quietism. The first section...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 31–36.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Martin Holbraad This response to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's article, “The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy,” presents some thoughts on how the debates about “relativism” upon which Smith comments could be refigured in the light of this symposium's theme of “comparative relativism...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Marilyn Strathern This article exploits the “binary license” offered by the title of the symposium in which it appears (“Comparative Relativism”) as a kind of promise of connection. The author suggests, however tentatively, that in the challenge of heterogeneity, fractality, perspective/-alism...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2016
... be compared with the efforts of credentialed philosophers. In this emergent conceptual practice, moreover, the work of academic philosophers is open to elaboration and correction in response to the findings of tribal and Western marginal thinkers. Among the developers of anthropological philosophy are said...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 291–311.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Caroline Walker Bynum Partly autobiographical, partly comparative, partly theoretical, this essay uses the idea of the footprint to explore the concept of xenophilia. The author first describes how the field of European medieval history has changed since the 1960s, when the period 500–1500...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 23–39.
Published: 01 January 2024
... in their larger social and cultural context the images that medieval women and men used, and employing a comparative analysis of female and male spiritualities, she has demonstrated that each had its own different emphases. In this effort, she has pioneered what is sometimes called a “history of masculinities...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 311–330.
Published: 01 April 2010
... contrasting texts (by Comte-Sponville, Kant, Serres, and Lovelock) in tandem, this article explores what an “objective morality” would look like, and it considers how to compare the Kantian axiology with the actor-network theory's possible definition of a thing-oriented morality. Especially important...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 303–324.
Published: 01 April 2017
... of an effort to articulate a unified vision of Hindu traditions that could be used to engage with the science, medicine, and other attractive aspects of British and Western culture. Comparing Bengali renderings of Patañjali's Yoga Sūtra, this essay concludes that one of them, the translation of paṇḍit Kālīvar...
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