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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 143–144.
Published: 01 January 2022
...Joseph Leo Koerner [email protected] Hans Blumenberg , History, Metaphors, Fables: A Hans Blumenberg Reader , ed., trans., and with an introduction by Hannes Bajohr , Florian Fuchs , and Joe Paul Kroll ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2020...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 277–283.
Published: 01 May 2016
... system and the social order that it secretes are structured like a war: our master narrative figures human life as an affair of winners and losers. Children need encouragement to question and bypass the master narrative by rethinking and rewriting traditional tales, fables, myths, and even epics...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 122–124.
Published: 01 January 2023
... contacts with others, by learning from them and assimilating some of their qualities—by being open to, not isolated from, the rest of the world. The non-French genealogy of the fables puts in doubt the entrenched concept of identity as involving separation and isolation. Their genealogy also sets...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 181–182.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and juxtaposes an unusually wide range of genres, including biblical exegesis, histori- cal writing, epic, romance, fables, and theology. Each chapter explores Christian and Jewish versions of a venerable (generally classical or late antique) narrative or theme: Josephus on Vespasian s crushing of the Jewish...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 182–183.
Published: 01 January 2020
... on England, and it examines and juxtaposes an unusually wide range of genres, including biblical exegesis, histori- cal writing, epic, romance, fables, and theology. Each chapter explores Christian and Jewish versions of a venerable (generally classical or late antique) narrative or theme: Josephus...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 157–163.
Published: 01 April 2009
... Cameron’s way into the question is through a fable of Empson’s, titled titled Empson’s, of fable a through is question the into way Cameron’s...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 19–43.
Published: 01 January 2015
... eaglerepeatedly by onamighty revenge gets beetle fable, adung...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 353.
Published: 01 April 2020
... normal childhood fed on the cruel fruits of revolution and coached her how to turn them resolutely into fables. Caryl Emerson doi 10.1215/0961754X-8192762 ...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 134–135.
Published: 01 January 2023
...—for example: “Swifts are my fable of community, teaching us about how to make right decisions in the face of oncoming bad weather, in the face of clouds that sit like dark rubble on our horizon.” What makes me uncomfortable with such general conclusions is that they could as well be reached without the birds...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 220–251.
Published: 01 April 2004
... connections within the original chaos of the world; and these invented connections among things enabled the original binding, or religio, of people to society.43 Primitivis- tic rather than primitivizing, this humanist view of religion and fable belonged to an emergent ethnological perspective...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 56–89.
Published: 01 January 2018
... be to intended are ofthem, hundred h b u s as known verses, pithy reciting by points their reinforce often characters animal the stories, the Within fables. the intentbehind didactic the clear world, making the in act to how best teacher, Vis min aBrah others, all encompassing...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 96–110.
Published: 01 January 2013
... .  .  Common Knowledge 108 Mystic Fable Mystic Certeau, De Michel de Certeau, Certeau, de Michel...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (3): 422–481.
Published: 01 August 2021
... it is not a “novel,” The Childhood of Jesus must be a “fable.” But, he added, “a successful fable meets two demands. It must be internally consistent. And the author must keep faith with it, must retain an air of utter conviction about the ‘reality’ he creates.” O'Toole felt that Childhood fails to meet...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 41–60.
Published: 01 January 2022
... emphasized differences between periods. Fontenelle's essay De l'origine des fables (or as we would now say, the origin of “myths”), was written at much the same time as Locke's, in the 1690s, although the text was not published until 1724. Fontenelle argued that in unpolished ages ( siècles grossiers...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 346–350.
Published: 01 April 2010
... that claim discussion.)fable This about silence is aclearapplication historical a ofWilde’s to Law. Oscar alludes which again,” “once overlook will behavior toward them,” silence and wethis need to be able to hear “once again.” (I Hache and Latour claim, “should be understood...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 29–33.
Published: 01 January 2008
... but to the kingdom of God which its striving for justice dimly prefigures. dimly justice for striving its which ofGod kingdom the butto consequences historical actual its itnot to referring image, dialectical so-called hopeful fable, sopartly that we can itlift clear of a fallen history and make...
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Common Knowledge (2006) 12 (2): 261–278.
Published: 01 April 2006
...   the philosophical fable of social origins - , 1967 ed. Lester Crocker (New York: Washington Square Press, ), 218...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 451–463.
Published: 01 September 2015
... conception of time brought about by the terrible destructive force of atomic and thermonuclear weapons.1 Regardless of what might happen in an actual nuclear exchange, cultural discourse concerning the use of nuclear weap- ons was, in Derrida’s opinion, conditioned by a “fable” of total destruction...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 367–371.
Published: 01 April 2015
...) Talking Dames Anon of Fables The Novels: ’s Major Woolf Biography Critical in Experiment Woolf:An Virginia ofImagining author the is sity...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 424–438.
Published: 01 August 2010
... ¯na n a¯ y h d 198 ), and slow “reversion” ( “reversion” slow and ), La Fable mystique: XVIe– mystique: Fable La...