... together the work of ancient and medieval historians, to examine their own positions vis-à-vis the discipline of history and to reflect on its political and rhetorical aspects. The seminar, titled “Jews, Pagans, and Christians Write History in Antiquity,” was meant to question, through self-reflexive...

... the Library shelves can be accessed now electronically and discussing the arrangements of the opening sections of the fourth floor (history) and the second floor (comparative literature, poetics, and rhetoric), the essay concludes with comments on the future of the Library. © 2012 by Duke University Press...

... with an analysis of its classic illustration in Plato’s Theaetetus as leveled by Socrates against Protagoras’s “Man is the measure . . ,” the essay considers various aspects of the charge, including its paradigmatic theatrical staging, its frequent pedagogic restaging, its logical and rhetorical structure, its...

...: ; History, Rhetoric, and Proof and Rhetoric, History, “I Have Always Loved the Holy Tongue...

... History of Classical Art, his other books include The Greeks in Asia; The Diffusion of Classical Art in Antiquity; The Greeks Overseas; The Triumph of Dionysos; The History of Greek Vases; and The Relief Plaques of Eastern Eurasia and China. He received...

...Ramona Naddaff; Katharine Wallerstein Written for a series of case studies titled “In the Humanities Classroom,” this contribution describes an undergraduate course on ancient rhetoric at Berkeley, in which Professor Ramona Naddaff was accused by a male student of demeaning women during a lecture...

... of classical pagan sign-theory in the development of Reformation sacramental discourse. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 St. Augustine Desiderius Erasmus sign-theory history of rhetoric English Reformation Common Knowledge 27:1 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-8723023 © 2021 by Duke University...

... of the protagonists of Greek drama; in other words, it does not connote the commenting interventions of the collec- tive interpreting chorus, but rather suggests . . . rhetoric and competition. Com- bative oral performances of this kind have a long history...

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... of Adler's history is to show us that the “skills” paradigm has been fermenting since the nineteenth century. When the traditional curriculum of the American college, based on the study of Greek and Latin language and literature, began to crumble in the 1800s, the rhetoric of skills emerged under...

... is Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology emeritus at Oxford University and a fellow of the British Academy, which awarded him its Kenyon Medal in 1995. Editor of the Oxford History of Classical Art, his other books include The Tri- umph of Dionysos...

..., and to subsequent pragmatist‐constructivist antirepresentationalism in contemporary science and technology studies (STS) and “4E” (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) cognitive theory. A final section on Nicholas Gaskill's contribution to the symposium questions his sense of Rorty's rhetorical recklessness...

...Nicholas Gaskill Abstract As the leading contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?,” this essay asks why Rorty was so often taken to be saying things that he claimed he was not. The argument is that Rorty's rhetorical approach and jargon engendered...

..., Jeffrey J. Kripal INTRODUCTION: “SUFFOCATION IN THE POLIS” However problematic the idiom or rhetoric of those who say “man is a social ani- mal,” it is hard to name an idiom that has been more successful.1 As Isaiah Berlin once observed in these pages, “no argument seems” any longer “needed...

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... and Painted Faces: The Rhetoric of Fallenness in Victorian Culture. Kristin Asdal is professor of science, technology, and culture at the University of Oslo. She is coeditor (with Ingunn Moser) of Experiments in Context and Contexting and Politikkens natur — Naturens politikk. David Blackbourn...

... and the criticism of art have a history of informing each other (Robert Pippin's After the Beautiful is a current example of the syndrome). Although the concepts of societal “modernism” and “modernist” art exhibit variation, both are hybrids of philosophical (linguistic) and aesthetic (sensory) indeterminacies...

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..., he used the same woodcut for each. Was his doing so deception? Convenience? Rhetorical fervor? When his critics loudly denounced the practice, was their doing so expressive of methodological rigor? Scientific professionalism? Or was it an opportunistic move by the religious and political Right...

... KNOWLEDGE COMMON of which constitutes a positive moral commitment. This history involves intricate and sometimes surprising relations between religious structures and a morality of limitation. The idea of moral finitude may perhaps be extended toward...