...William M. Chace Nussbaum Martha C. , Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 158 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir...

...Mikhail Epstein This essay's central concern is the need for a new, practical dimension in the humanities, emphasizing their constructive rather than purely scholarly aspects. An analysis is offered of various types of inventions in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, art, and literature...

...Peter N. Miller © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Symposium: Devalued Currency, Part 1 when humanity was in the humanities Peiresc in the 1630s Peter N. Miller Early modern scholars do not usually provide much...

...Christophe Fricker; Timothy J. Senior This guest column in Common Knowledge is one of three published under the heading “Economy and Humanity.” The authors argue that collaborative research projects carried out by scholars in the arts and humanities in cooperation with commercial enterprises...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith Advocates of literary Darwinism, cognitive cultural studies, neuroaesthetics, digital humanities, and other such hybrid fields now seek explicitly to make the aims and methods of one or another humanities discipline approximate more closely the aims and methods of science...

...Mikhail Epstein Duke University Press 2007 C O L U M N S BETWEEN HUMANITY AND HUMAN BEINGS Information Trauma and the Evolution of the Species Mikhail Epstein Some two centuries ago, in 1798, Thomas Malthus published...

... and (bread iconophobic Eucharist more the objected to movements Powellas sees Reformation the and groups dissident late medieval here) were imagines explain to complicated too reasons (for terms logical metaphorsand verbal even beings, human ordinary objects, ritual ornoniconic...

...Barry Allen Tattersall Ian , Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins ( New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 ), 266 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz, D’un...

... activities during World War II and argues that even that “just war” left an indelible stain on the moral fabric of the discipline. Duke University Press 2010 COLUMNS INTELLECTUALS AND “HUMANITY AS A WHOLE” Richard...

...Émilie Hache Oliver Kelly , Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2009 ), 376 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander, Duel...

...Simone Roberts Catherine A. MacKinnon, Are Women Human? And Other International Dialogues (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 417 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Gabriel Piterberg...

.... Virtually the whole system, from stations and office buildings to benches and posters, came to reflect his unthreatening idea of modernism: the “fitness for pur- pose” that he hoped would humanize industrial design, and, by extension, the industrialized world...

... itisunderstoodasamodeofreligiousworship.Andheconcludes that “the human sacrificeasdevilworshipwithamoresophisticated understandingin principle. He provocatively contrasts theconquistadors’ interpretation ofAztec abstract categories (nation, race,class)rather thanas concrete individualscanalso a tribalistandracistdrive.A climate ofthinkingaboutpeople...

..., and most of all the scholars, scientists, and writers in the always emergent field of human emotion. Amélie Rorty, Ronald de Sousa, and Robert C. Solomon of the “emotions do not form a natural class” school; biologists of reason like Anto- nio Damasio...

...David Konstan Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 822 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York: Grove, 2006), 383 pp...

...Adir H. Petel Mikhail Epstein's essay “Inventive Thinking in the Humanities,” also published in the January 2017 issue of Common Knowledge , argues that the humanities are in crisis because humanist academics have “turned away from human beings and focused on texts.” Expanding on this point while...

...Manny Karkowsky © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 not for sale POETRY AND FICTION HUMAN STORIES, I Manny Karkowsky When SeedAdam was first formed he lacked for fingerprints. He would leave no mark of identity, nothing...

...Bernard Spolsky K. David Harrison, When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 292 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im Duke University Press 2005 S y m p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF RELIGION, SECULARISM, AND HUMAN RIGHTS Prospects for Islamic Societies Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im...