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...Simone Roberts Kearney Richard and Rizo-Patron Eileen , eds., Traversing the Heart: Journey of the Inter-religious Imagination ( Leiden : Brill , 2010 ), 502 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Donald Keene, Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 196 pp. Japan Rising: The Iwakura Embassy to the USA and Europe, 1871–1873 , compiled (1876) by Kume Kunitake, ed. Chushichi Tsuzuki and R. Jules Young...

...Inga Clendinnen C O L U M N S PREEMPTING POSTCOLONIAL CRITIQUE Europeans in the Heart of Darkness Inga Clendinnen I confess that I have already participated in this journal’s symposium “Imperial Trauma...

...Nabila Abbas; Yves Sintomer Abstract A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this article examines the diverse types of imaginary that support sortition, which is currently at the heart of important debates on the reform of existing democratic institutions. Different...

...Emil Višňovský Abstract In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on Richard Rorty, the author attempts to identify what he calls “the heart of Rortyism.” Beginning with Rorty's query, as an undergraduate, about “what, if anything, philosophy is good for,” Višňovský associates...

...Elizabeth Sears Aby Warburg's Nachlass , the heart of the Warburg Institute Archive, is complemented by other large holdings which are no less remarkable. Quietly accumulating over the decades, still only provisionally cataloged, the vast corpus of letters filed as “General Correspondence” reveals...

... illuminates the legacy of Warburg's Library, today at the core of the Warburg Institute in London, since the crisis that the page documents — larger than Warburg's personal one — still lies at the heart of humanistic scholarship as it attempts to grasp the essence of what it means to be human. © 2012...

...Aude Aylin de Tapia In the nineteenth-century Ottoman empire, Cappadocia, in the heart of Anatolia, was one of the last regions where Rum Orthodox Christians cohabited with Muslims in rural areas. Among the main aspects of everyday coexistence were the beliefs and ritual practices that, shared...

... frequently avoided coming to grips with his distinctions between theory and pragmatism, science and politics, which lie at the heart of his political refusal. Theory and science push toward reasonable explanations and accounts of things; pragmatic and predatory political actors apply “worldly wisdom...

...Daniel Grausam This essay compares “expert” attempts, commissioned by the US government, to imagine future nuclear risk with the attempt made by Lydia Millet in her novel Oh Pure and Radiant Heart (2005). During the Cold War, nuclear attack was conceptualized primarily as a matter of instantaneous...

... examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Latin...

... of sympathy, it appears essentially to be an experience of love. According to Mencius (372–289 BCE)—who is often called the “second Sage” (meaning, second after Confucius)—we observe that the feeling of sympathy is the beginning of ren by noting that the heart is disturbed when one sees, for example...

... and twenty-seven after Algeria? The disregardability of Second World colonies is especially surprising, given the import of Joseph Conrad, née Konrad Korzeniowski, to postcolonial criticism. Heart of Darkness (1898) is a key, if controversial, text for postcolonial critics, while the connection...

... their hearts out in the shadow of the accordion whose tempestuous rhythms enfolded everything, and without missing a single word sang all the words of all the songs from “We have a billy goat” until “Who are we? Who are we all?” — but there was no one who was prettier than they were or who danced more...

... ) caught in the heart starlike by moonlight, rays rays, beaming crowned awith dandelion halo glowing by now,dry left for days, Outside, look, on the table, that sunflower NIGHT OF THE COMET with thewith author   blinding appointment. the dazzle of that inescapable its back turning...

..., and “ : And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart.” Rashi com heart.”Rashi thine all with God thy Lordlove shalt the thou And : I think an example, at this point, is required. In the Midrash Rabbah on Rabbah Midrash the In required. is point...

... acaptive Like Meshiudo no gotoku akugaru. Ittenai kuni no (mitenai f (mitenai no kuni Ittenai akugaru. gotoku no Meshiudo read to (yet) Ihave books many too are there .’Cause reels. and reels My heart, de no gahon...

... Heart Sutra Heart the of phrasing and thought the The 6 delusion of the mind. The delusion is overcome on realization that the “ultimate” “ultimate reality” as a concept. For the Zen disciple, this concept is just one more mind...

...! That sentence lingers nervous in your eyes. Fallen dry leaves scatter to your soul, I know, alas! Don't wait for tears to come. That sacred footstep silently receding: a fallen willow, ah, a dying uproar. What is that flowing in me cold and barren? Just then my heart's a bloodied wild bird...