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The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 284–286.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Martin Kusch , Katherina Kinzel , Johannes Steizinger , and Niels Wildschut , eds., The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism ( London : Routledge , 2019 ), 258 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press...
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The Gestation of German Biology: Philosophy and Physiology from Stahl to Schelling
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 454.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Barry Allen From Leibniz and Georg Ernst Stahl to Albrecht von Haller, Germans of the eighteenth century calved off an experimental physiology from medicine and made this research a centerpiece of their new model university, first under Haller at Göttingen, then under von Humboldt at Berlin...
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Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 350–351.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Zsuzsanna Ozsváth Brodbeck David , Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna . ( New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 ), 365 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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GERMAN BY THE GRACE OF GOETHE
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 363–393.
Published: 01 August 2003
...Marjorie Perloff Duke University Press 2003 GERMAN BY THE
GRACE OF GOETHE
Marjorie Perloff
Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn,
Im dunkeln Laub die Gold-Orangen glühn,
Ein sanfter Wind vom blauen Himmel weht,
Die Myrte still und hoch der Lorbeer steht—
Kennst du es wohl...
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Quietism in German Mysticism and Philosophy
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 457–473.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Glenn Alexander Magee A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism,” this article argues that a strong strain of quietism runs through German intellectual history, from medieval mystics such as Eckhart to the main line of modern philosophers...
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Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 156.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Tyrus Miller Ehrhard Bahr, Weimar on the Pacific: German Exile Culture in Los Angeles and the Crisis of Modernism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 358 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews
Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country...
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CAN THERE BE COMMON KNOWLEDGE WITHOUT A COMMON LANGUAGE?: German Pflicht versus English Duty
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 141–171.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Anna Wierzbicka This essay argues that, since Kant wrote in German and since German has no word for “right” corresponding in meaning to the English word, it is a case of conceptual anglocentrism to say, as many anglophone philosophers do, that Kant reformulated the foundations of ethics...
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Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich by Gundula Kreuzer
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 440–442.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Philip Gossett; Jeffrey M. Perl Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Kreuzer Gundula , Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 ), 382 pp. ...
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Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 359–361.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Philip Gossett Kreuzer Gundula , Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 ), 382 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS
Nanno...
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The Islamic-Israelite World
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Sean McMeekin This essay applies the concept of “fuzzy thinking” to geopolitics, using a curious turn of phrase in a 1914 policy paper (“the Islamic-Israelite world”) to explore paradoxes of German strategy in World War I. To find the origins of this phrase, the article explores the language...
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Progress: From Literature to History
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 262–279.
Published: 01 May 2021
...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...
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Description of the Human
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 226–278.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Hans Blumenberg; Joe Paul Kroll; Hannes Bajohr Abstract This extract is the first English translation of Hans Blumenberg's posthumous publication Beschreibung des Menschen , which was published by Suhrkamp Verlag in 2006. Based on lectures concerning the German tradition of philosophical...
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On How Postwar Germany Has Faced Its Recent Past
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 364–377.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Jürgen Habermas; Jeffrey M. Perl In this essay Habermas contends that, until 1989, four phases are discernible in how postwar Germany attempted to come to terms with its “unmasterable past.” Between the end of the war in 1945 and the foundation of two German states in 1949, the first reconstruction...
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Growing Up in the Shadow of Confederate Monuments
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 163–170.
Published: 01 May 2021
.... Connecting the southern anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism of her youth, she explains the parallels and differences between German efforts to come to terms with the Holocaust and American efforts, southern and northern, to move beyond and make reparation for both slavery and continuing twentieth- and twenty...
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Sifting through the Ashes and the Fragments of Bone: A Previously Unpublished Essay of 2018
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 September 2022
.... Written in Hungarian not long before his death in 2019, Konrád goes back in this essay to the period following the arrest of his parents after the German invasion of Hungary. Aged eleven, he was able to escape the small town where he was born—and hence the fate of its entire Jewish community. “The others...
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THE LONGEST WAY AROUND IS THE SHORTEST WAY HOME: A Latecomer to the Warburg
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 174–179.
Published: 01 January 2012
...Paul Crossley This article traces the roundabout journey of an architectural historian from Cambridge to the Warburg Institute Library, via Cracow, Princeton, and Manchester. The author's early research, into German and Central European architecture, had little to do with Warburgian interests...
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The Prophet Muhammad: A Model of Monotheistic Reform for Nineteenth-Century Ashkenaz
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 April 2018
...John Tolan Some of the nineteenth century’s foremost scholars of the Qur’an and hadiths were German and Hungarian Jews. For many of them, their scholarly interest in Islam was entangled with their contemporary concerns about movements of reform and emancipation in European Jewry and about...
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When History Meets Politics: In the Humanities Classroom — and Outside
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 405–414.
Published: 01 August 2018
... in tandem with a close inspection of historical fascism in the German case. The course coincided with the first months of the Trump presidency, inviting discussion not only of ideology and popular appeal, but also of specific developments in the young administration. Students were challenged to think...
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Rethinking “Normative Conscience”: The Task of the Intellectual Today
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 192–199.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Julia Kristeva; Jeffrey M. Perl Written originally as part of a Common Knowledge symposium (2007) responding to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s homily against relativism, which was delivered immediately before his election as pope, this essay describes a reactionary German intellectual current...
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A Turning-Point in Political Thought
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 292–320.
Published: 01 April 2019
... 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...
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