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...Martin Mulsow When authors act by either publishing or non-publishing their texts, they sometimes use a language of gestures. These gestures can assist to position the author in the intellectual field. In this way some German eighteenth-century philosophers who thought against the grain...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Comparative Relativisim,” Smith argues that relativism is a chimera, half straw man, half red herring. Over the past century, she shows, objections to the supposed position so named have typically involved either...

... energy, researchers in the field appear committed to the uncovering of psychological/cognitive universals. Although Smith writes that Holbraad champions a more radical relativism than that offered in her own work, she argues that the moves he urges have either been present in her work from the beginning...

... access to legal means and were forced either into alternative dispute resolution or into autocoercion, in which marginalized people presented unity to outsiders to avoid state interference. This proposition constitutes a relevant advance in relation to previous approaches to conflict and harmony...

.... If disenchantment is the price of victory over absolute evil, few would doubt that it was worth paying—within the framework of the tales. For the far future of Middle-Earth, however, the implications are less benign. The Elves accept their fate and either dwindle or depart. But the orcs, personifying disenchantment...

... would suggest that pluralism or something like it was operative, there is virtually no mention of the other in the religious corpus of either tradition. This essay recommends and demonstrates a historical approach more alert to the possibility that religious pluralism may best be found in the past...

...Jeffrey M. Perl This essay, by the editor of Common Knowledge , comprises the introduction to an issue of the journal dedicated to experiments in scholarly form and to discussion of them. He explains the choice of articles and other pieces in the issue on the basis of their contributions either...

... abandoned their own principles either. This essay concludes that Tunstall was the most heroic of the three. As a bishop (for well over thirty years), he could have burned heretics in the 1530s and 1550s but he sent no one to death—a record perhaps better than that of Thomas More, who saw sedition in some...

... of suspended possibility, avoiding either belief or disbelief, assent or dissent. Candea's piece draws out the logic of the complementary and inverse move that grounds Viveiros de Castro's stance: “not taking seriously” the world of the “same,” in this case, that of Western intellectuals such as Richard Rorty...

... in ascribing knowledge of the norms of her activity to either the literary critic or the soccer player. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 5 SHARP EDGES, FALSE COMFORT Carolyn Richardson Imagine you are standing...

... that the genre of rabbinic debate—rather than the specific content of rabbinic statements—can be understood as peaceful. The study of halakhic literature, which is generally understood either as designed to clarify and quantify explicit legal demands or as a setting for pluralistic and progressive legal debate...

...Adir H. Petel The literary and critical discourse about characters and characterization in Anglophone drama and fiction since the Renaissance shows a persistent but underrecognized presence of three idioms and vocabularies, two highly developed and one nascent, that either derive from the rhetoric...

... Rowlandson's captivity during King Philip's War in the 17th century and, in particular, her strategies for surviving the breakdown of every basic taxonomy that had until then structured her life in Puritan New England. Refusing either suicide or rebellion and thus reduced to maintaining “bare life,” Rowlandson...

... Daoist sources, where a different model of knowing prevails. That model undermines the idea of purposive willing in the service of goals known in advance, and undermines as well the bases for any human or divine activity designed to achieve definite ends. If purpose is not privileged either...

..., and this is why no consensus as to either the meaning or the interpretation of the world can ever be final or universally valid.” Frank moreover cites the even more radical position of Friedrich Schlegel: “All truth is relative—but together with that proposition another must be coordinated: there is essentially...

... of partitocrazia (party rule) by Giuseppe Maranini, and the Five Star Movement of Beppo Grillo. In each case, popular enthusiasm has been followed by disappointment as each movement has degraded into a mere political party of populist bent, either right‐ or left‐wing. Being antipolitical has proven to be a stance...

... discourse has warmed to the claims of lived experience (the “turn to ethics,” the interest in “affect”), but the “ethical” has remained a negative movement, either as the critique of social and discursive structures or as clearing space for the “other”—and “affect” has been construed as the pleasure...

..., this Dominican vehemently opposed hierarchical differentiation. Against the principle that held others to be axiologically subordinate, he argued for the dissolution of differ- ences—either as a present fact of anthropology (all humans are human) or as an inevitable development of human progress...

..., 2015),288pp. David Potter, Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint ers. Accordingly, groups engaging in postconflict strategic violence either try to to try violence either strategic postconflict in engaging groups Accordingly, ers. follow their control to leaderscontinue their whether...

..., 2015),288pp. David Potter, Theodora: Actress, Empress, Saint ers. Accordingly, groups engaging in postconflict strategic violence either try to to try violence either strategic postconflict in engaging groups Accordingly, ers. follow their control to leaderscontinue their whether...