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Joe-Answers: A Conversation with Joseph Frank

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Nina Pelikan Straus
Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 399–410.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281747
Published: 01 August 2013
... scholarship. The conversation also provides hints as to how — as director of the Christian Gauss Seminars at Princeton and as a contributor to debates about Spatial Form in Critical Inquiry — he negotiated the intellectual trends and distractions of Grand Theory, which came to dominate literary criticism...
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Introduction: On Her Own Terms

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Richard Kieckhefer
Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 18–22.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11014010
Published: 01 January 2024
... conversations in historical scholarship relevance to academic conversations relevance to public conversations late medieval religious culture the “material turn” In a graduate seminar, “Late Medieval Religion—Conversations and Controversies,” I have had students read major publications and discuss how...
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THE LAW OF THE GOOD NEIGHBOR

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Michael P. Steinberg
Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 128–133.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1456926
Published: 01 January 2012
..., and each newly acquired book, should stage a conversation with its neighbor: ask a question, pro- vide an answer. The result is a conversation both infinite and coherent: the envy, perhaps, of today’s digitized world and its infinite capacity for information...
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Tampering with Scholarly Form

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Jeffrey M. Perl
Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 1–3.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2374794
Published: 01 January 2014
... of a two-part symposium on “lyric philosophy” and a “pseudepigraphon” premised on its author's conviction that not-for-credit truths are credible only if they appear to be fabrications. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 EXPERIMENTAL SCHOLARSHIP, REVISITED...
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Introduction: Kuhn’s Epiphany

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Jeffrey M. Perl
Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 441–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8521633
Published: 01 August 2020
... the origins of contextualism to Kuhn and his theory that paradigms of scientific knowledge are incommensurable, this essay then argues that Kuhnian method is formal, with scant concern for content, and that Kuhn’s work was vatic, more than philosophical or historical. Kuhn’s depiction of his sudden, blinding...
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Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student

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Jacqueline E. Jung
Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 76–123.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11014062
Published: 01 January 2024
..., and it was thrilling to see their words and voices materialize on the page. Along with her conversations with historical persons, Bynum also let us listen in as she talked with people closer to home. The essays on Max Weber, Victor Turner, and Leo Steinberg not only provided inroads to key writings in economics...
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Notes on Contributors

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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (3): 564–568.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2732748
Published: 01 August 2014
... Kinkeldey the Fried Michael Kabbalah of Clooney X. Francis cological Society and the Society of Textual Scholarship. Scholarship. ofTextual Society the and Society...
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Notes on Contributors

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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 382–386.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-18-2-382
Published: 01 April 2012
... Historical Revolution; The Fabrication of Louis XIV; Languages and Communities in Early Modern Europe; The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy; The Renaissance Sense of the Past; and The Art of Conversation. His books have appeared in twenty-eight...
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INVENTIVE THINKING IN THE HUMANITIES

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Mikhail Epstein
Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 1–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-3692079
Published: 01 January 2017
... of the author.” A research and educational program, uniting major fields of the humanities, is proposed: PILLAR (the acronym of philosophy, information, language, literature, art, religion ) would be a transdisciplinary strategy complementary to STEM, integrating scholarship and inventorship. © 2017 by Duke...
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The Best Colleague

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Mark Bauerlein
Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 10–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2007-029
Published: 01 January 2008
... to make a name for herself before turning 35. Her husband, the historian Eugene Genovese, watched her in agony at home and tried to keep her back, but Betsey, always conscientious, cared too much about scholarship and young minds to slow down. Besides, the last...
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The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History and Fiction in the Twelfth Century

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Caroline Walker Bynum
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 534.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305391
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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INTRODUCTION

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G. Thomas Tanselle
Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 20–23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-20
Published: 01 January 2002
..., to exemplify the qualities required for genuine conversation, recognizing that ideas gain support from what can be said in their favor, not from attempts to discredit what might be seen as rival points of view. One could say, then, that my call for papers...
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CALLS FOR PAPERS

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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 23.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-23
Published: 01 January 2002
... the qualities required for genuine conversation, recognizing that ideas gain support from what can be said in their favor, not from attempts to discredit what might be seen as rival points of view. One could say, then, that my call for papers has been answered by most...
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Vattimo's Legacy of Freedom

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Simonetta Moro
Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 283–298.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-11416041
Published: 01 September 2024
... and eloquent conversations, for the clarity with which he was able to convey the most difficult philosophical concepts—a trait that made him a beloved and sought-after teacher and mentor—and not last, for his love of traveling far and wide, and of trekking and mountain climbing, as Francesco Tomatis recalled...
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The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically

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Santiago Zabala
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 539.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305436
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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Duel at Dawn: Heroes, Martyrs, and the Rise of Modern Mathematics

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Reviel Netz
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 533.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305382
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future

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G. Thomas Tanselle
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 535–536.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305400
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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Antithetical Arts: On the Ancient Quarrel between Literature and Music

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Philip Gossett
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 537.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305409
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods

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Isabelle Stengers
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305418
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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An Awareness of What Is Missing: Faith and Reason in a Post-Secular Age

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Michael P. Kramer
Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 538.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-1305427
Published: 01 August 2011
..., and ecstasies; with the complexities of twelfth dreams, between differences with fashion sophisticated a in deal and context the of themes major the place chapters middle Its aspect. scholarship. historical study’s positivist the from is Butfar most interesting this buried has century...
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