...—deconstructive and Oxonian. Like the original Old Critics, the Christian humanists, Fisch attends to the compatibil- ity of the classical legacy and the biblical; but like Hartman, he shows how “chasms and contradictions . . . are deeply buried in the texture” of the sacred...

... to those questions, insofar as they are true, cannot contradict each other; and (3) that human beings have a distinctive character, which is essentially social. Each of these tenets has been attacked, the first by the German Romantics of the late eighteenth century, the second by Machiavelli in sixteenth...

... complex emotional and psychological effects, and its apparent cognitive dynamics. After discussion of the comparable structure and dynamics of related self-undoings in myth and drama, the examination of alleged exposures of self-contradiction moves to general observations regarding the recurrent encounter...

...Liesl Yamaguchi Abstract As a follow‐up to the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism” (15:1 to 16:3), this guest column asks what it means to say nothing. Strictly speaking, to “say nothing” is a contradiction in terms (unless, of course, one says “Nothing,” which is another thing...

... contradiction. Above all, Veblen's work serves the purpose of reminding us that neither science nor democracy constitutes a self-evident ground for belief in the inherent reasonableness or justice of action per se. For these reasons alone, an acquaintance with his work should be part of any solidly grounded...

... the dishes”), Zen has always held a nondualist approach that denies any contradiction between these seemingly distinct ways. Zen has never really seen them as distinct. The article does survey, however, several quietist sources for Zen in early Indian and Daoist thought and practice, and it also surveys...

... symmetry leads to ethically or politically debilitating neutrality. Consideration of the nature of cognitive universals indicates that their existence does not contradict observations of the significance of cultural variability. Consideration of anxieties about the supposed quietistic implications...

.... Subsequently, it touches on some contradictions of quietism and politics, which Zadie Smith also considers in her essay, “Speaking in Tongues.” Finally, the essay dwells on David Malouf's novel, An Imaginary Life , as a fully achieved parable of quietism, applicable to all places and ages. Throughout...

.... They then argue for form-content contradiction/harmony between these purportedly opposing senses. In responding, Zamir argues that these operations can be construed as distinct kinds of sensitivity. Arguments that advocate bringing nonhuman animals into moral consideration can be abstract and general...

... of the principles (in particular, the principle of non-contradiction) that underlay early Western metaphysics. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Guarani Pierre and Hélène Clastres metaphysics cosmopolitics Eduardo Viveiros de Castro...

... building and, in the process, inadvertently show that, to overbear various negative associations of blur and fog, the authors/architects grew self-contradictorily emphatic about the need to produce de-emphasis in architecture and in modern life. Perl shows how this self-contradiction appears also...

...Angela Hobbs In a response to two essays by Jan Zwicky on “lyric philosophy,” this piece questions whether there are positions that cannot be fully articulated in conventional, linear prose without contradiction and, if so, whether or in what sense they can be considered philosophical positions...

... on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a “ mezza voce quietism”? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and “passive resistance” as his own test case, concluding...

..., chance is a better guide to our immediate intellectual and aesthetic preferences, even though it presumes no explanation of our comprehensive cultural formation. Although never right, chance has the advantage of never being wrong. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 chance contradiction...

... contradict the participants’ declared Common Knowledge 9:1 Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press...

... and manifests the larger self-contradictions of the world. As she says, the hazelnut is all that exists. It is everything she speaks of in the Showings , an all whose inclusivity she sometimes struggled with but that here, in this passage, is everything that exists. Beautiful as it rests in her hand (and God...

... sibility. This struggle may in part explain why warfare was such an appealing an such was warfare why explain part in may sibility.struggle This contradictions relentlessly, only to have them collapse under the weight of impos- such resolutionsto pursued artists and Thinkers injustice. of kinds various...

...., contradictions, obscurity, and out- and obscurity, contradictions,   eras different ofthree editors...

... explores “enabling moods,” unwittingly perpetuates the moral confusion of empirical psychology and “privileg[es] psychological over moral desiderata,” even as certain “psychological states” are “presented as morally desirable.” This contradiction is another iteration of one she has been confronting...

...., contradictions, obscurity, and out- and obscurity, contradictions,   eras different ofthree editors...