...Fang Lizhi; Jeffrey M. Perl Dikötter Frank , Mao’s Great Famine: The History of China’s Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 ( New York : Walker , 2010 ), 448 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Andrew P. Tuck Tsong Khapa, Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, trans. Geshe Ngawang Samten and Jay L. Garfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 632 pp. Duke University Press 2009...

... by the Czech philosopher Jan Patočka between “great history” and “small history.” In periods of greatness, the Czechs led European civilization toward the path it would subsequently take; at other times, they withdrew into the “banality of provincialism.” This tribute to Havel ultimately argues that, after...

...Isabel Colegate © 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 AN INHERITED PREFERENCE FOR SOLITUDE Great-Grandson of the Isolated Baronet Isabel...

...Michael Kazin Stoltzfus Duane C. S. , Pacifists in Chains: The Persecution of Hutterites during the Great War . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2013 ), 268 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Fang Lizhi Dikötter Frank , Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–1962 ( New York : Walker , 2010 ), 448 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS Nanno...

...Philip Gossett William Weber, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 334 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren...

...Isaiah Berlin; Jeffrey M. Perl Berlin discerns three great crises in Western political thought, each challenging one of its three primary tenets. The three tenets are (1) that questions about correct human actions are answerable, whether the answers are yet known or not; (2) that the answers...

...Georges Didi-Huberman This article deals with the genesis of the Bilderatlas Mnemosyne , composed by Aby Warburg between 1927 and 1929 as a response to the Great War. His reaction to the war was both pathetic (even pathological) and epistemic (which is to say, methodological). If the history...

...Colin Davis The great Roman historian Livy describes a radical attempt at conflict resolution in his version of the story of the Horatii. The warring cities of Rome and Alba agree to settle their differences by pitting two sets of triplets against each other in a battle to the death. Two...

... presence in the Holy Land (1097 – 1291). Explored here is how each party overcame this incongruity between ideology and praxis and sought a “small peace,” which is temporary and practical, rather than “great peace,” which is a final settlement. Features of these peace-making efforts examined here include...

..., or are there a great many, all of them variations on a single theoretical insight, which anthropologists have made up in secret and carefully keep as a secret from themselves ? (Why not? the author asks, adding that such is exactly how the modern state operates.) Is it possible, he further asks, for a memory to have...

...William M. Chace This guest column, written by a former president of Emory University, examines arguments made by Jonathan Cole, a former provost of Columbia, in his book The Great American University . Cole illustrates his history of the modern American research university with a vivid comparison...

... among the great “positions” of Christendom. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Symposium: Apology for Quietism, Part 1 SANCTA INDIFFERENTIA AND ADIAPHORA “Holy Indifference” and “Things Indifferent” G. R. Evans Quietism brought the individual...

...Yaakov A. Mascetti Abstract In the second installment of this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Contextualism—the Next Generation,” Donne's religious poetry is set in dialogue not only with the “Great Controversy” of the 1560s over the nature of the eucharistic sign but also with pre...

... in phenomenology-inflected writings on blur by T. J. Clark, Yve-Alain Bois and Rosalind Kraus, J.-P. Sartre, and Georges Bataille, but not in the work of the phenomenologist (and sinologist) François Jullien, whose book The Great Image Has No Form analyzes the role of blur in classical Chinese art theory...

... negotiation. The final instance is of a modern European narrative in which the specific causes and consequences of the Great War are obscure to the soldiers fighting in it. It is random chance, rather than the negotiation or transcendence of difference, that is thought, in this mode, to determine who lives...

... that only some ways of thinking are possible in any given place and time. Richmond's response is that a human context in which there is but one mode of thought in evidence, and no evident ambivalence regarding it, is a context in which great numbers have died, violently and recently. His essay takes...

... the Greeks called thumos is bound to fail. Using an original data set of all wars since 1648 (the Peace of Westphalia) involving great or rising powers, the essay shows how wars associated with honor, standing, and revenge, all expressions of thumos , far outnumber those caused by security or material...

... philosophy of mind, hallucinogens help to operationalize questions about the nature of consciousness. While this project contributes to the great divide between empirically enlightened moderns and tradition-oriented premoderns, Metzinger's neurophilosophical reanimation of the ancient conception...