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...Caroline Walker Bynum Brown Peter , Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West , 350 – 550 AD ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2012 ), 759 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...John Boardman Duke University Press 2005 Symposium: Imperial Trauma, Part 1 GREECE: THE RISE WITHOUT FALL John Boardman Decline and fall are the fate of empires, and the seed of decline is commonly self- fertilized...

...Jeffrey F. Hamburger Jaroslav Folda, Crusader Art in the Holy Land, from the Third Crusade to the Fall of Acre, 1187–1291 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 785 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE...

...Charles Foster [email protected] Raghu Chundawat , The Rise and Fall of the Emerald Tigers: Ten Years of Research in Panna National Park ( New Delhi : Speaking Tiger , 2018 ), 356 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This is a very unusual book...

...Allan Janik [email protected] David Edmonds , The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 ), 315 + xvi pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 It is not unusual to speculate...

...Charly Coleman [email protected] Colin Jones , The Fall of Robespierre: Twenty-Four Hours in Revolutionary Paris ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2021 ), 571 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 What a difference a day makes! In this eminently...

...Susan Gubar © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 S y m p o s i u m : U n s o c i a l T h o u g h t , U n c o m m o n L i v e s , Pa r t 1 FALLING FOR ETTY HILLESUM Susan Gubar Falling, for the Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum, starts in a wrestling match...

...Marina Vanzolini Kopenawa Davi and Albert Bruce , The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman , trans. Elliot Nicholas and Dundy Alison . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 648 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Jeffrey M. Perl In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge offers excerpts from his two-year correspondence with a reader in Hong Kong, who was drawn to arguments made in the journal about maintaining “quietism and resistance in the face of vile behavior.” In the summer and fall of 2019, during...

... in the social sciences, but it falls short by failing to account for indigenous notions of and demands for harmony. Ethnographic data from rural Kyrgyzstan and the South Omo region of Ethiopia indicate that there are models of harmony active at various social levels and that harmony is a genuine concern...

... relativism and absolutism—that all philosophical positions must fall under one or the other heading. Daniel Paksi's response is that Bloor covertly subscribes to a trichotomy of umbrella headings: idealist relativism (or irrealism), materialist relativism, and absolutism. Bloor, it is argued, connects...

..., then structuralism falls (as Vincent Descombes remarked) under Wittgenstein's objections to treating rules as causes. What this article shows, however, is that this reading of structuralism is misguided. The necessity and justification of introducing structural methods, first in linguistics and then in anthropology...

... and antipolitical essayist, but the emphasis of the essay falls on how Havel the man dealt with the disappointments he endured in political office, including the passage of “lustration” laws and the election of Václav Klaus as prime minister. The organizing principle of this essay is the distinction made...

...Detelina Tocheva An annual celebration called the Day of the Driver, held in the vicinity of a chapel in the central southern part of the Rhodope Mountains of Bulgaria, is a professional as well as Orthodox Christian feast in which Bulgarian Sunni Muslims have participated at least since the fall...

... falling in love with an Irish-speaker while he is in her country to translate Irish place-names into English for an imperial cartographic survey. While the lieutenant is referred to in the play as a Hibernophile, the essay interprets his love as xenophilic: love for the foreignness rather than...

...S. D. Chrostowska Abstract This article begins from the assumption that what was once an integral dimension of progress—the development of literature and of art more generally—now lies outside its scope. The essay falls into three parts that juxtapose French with German intellectual history...

... the Polish “Generation of `68” how best to undo oppression and why they should do so. Emphasis falls on the difficulty, unpredictability, and unclassifiable features of Kołakowski's writings—features that, paradoxically, did not stand in the way of his becoming not only the “prince of philosophers,” but also...

... by Paul Cézanne and Pieter Bruegel, poems by Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden. The essay argues that each self-deluding “reality” we construct is only temporary, destined to fall back into the elusive, undifferentiated zone of overlap and ambiguity from which it has emerged. Therefore, the author urges, we...

...György Konrád; Jim Tucker Abstract Originally published in Common Knowledge 11, no. 2 (Fall 2005), this essay is reprinted in 2022 as the prelude to the first installment of a project titled “Antipolitics” and dedicated to the author's memory. “To really know” what a writer “is like,” Konrád writes...