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... the oriental and the primitive? Might the clas- sical not even seem to some “unnatural,” and to conceal emotional depths that the modern world still generally keeps under comparably respectable wraps? —John Boardman Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History...

...John Boardman Giuliani Luca , Image and Myth: A History of Pictorial Narration in Greek Art . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2013 ), 335 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... in Northumberland, among other places, and producing a wonderfully lucid and rich new account. Rescuing a brave mind from the talons of time is a special kind of service. Finally, for all to see, Harriot comes to light. Oren Harman doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723279 Thomas Elyot, The Image of Governance and Other...

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...Linda Safran [email protected] Elina Gertsman , The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books ( University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press , 2021 ), 256 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 This book professes to be about nothing...

...John Q. Stilwell Paul Raffield, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558 – 1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE...

...Jessica Riskin Hopwood Nick , Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ), 392 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 8 7Nick Hopwood, Haeckel s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud (Chicago...

...Dalia Ofer A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism,” this article reflects on the challenges that understanding the Holocaust posed for Jews in Palestine and has posed for them in Israel. Ofer concentrates on the images of victims, fighters...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Abstract Using historical rather than philosophical means, this essay responds to a philosophical discussion of the problem of evil. Instead of constructing arguments in support of a general, theoretical position, the author examines a single, paradoxical image from the vision...

... of xenophilia needs genealogical explanation, and Albera turns for this purpose to analysis of the relationship between Aphrodite and Ares in Greco-Roman mythology. In the present piece, Perl extends that exploration in analysis of a series of images in which the gods of love and war, along...

... of mainstream rationalism withdrew from the public sphere, using the image of the Egyptian god Harpocrates, who puts his index finger to his lips—a symbol for maintaining silence. In a sense one can thus label this kind of quietism as “harpocratism.” The essay examines the imagery and contextualizes it in three...

... 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...

...Tim Beasley-Murray This article discusses implicit conceptions of reticence in the early philosophical writings of Mikhail Bakhtin. Contrary to the image of Bakhtin as a thinker of dialogue, polyphony, and voice, it finds a strand in Bakhtin's thought that suggests that there might be good reasons...

... among indigenous actors. Although these processes are mostly absent from colonial or later sources, they should not remain foreign to ethnology, as the three empirical cases analyzed in this essay show. Methodologically, the essay asks why the regulatory image of Rousseau's small community, meeting face...

..., wool , and fudge ), he reserves the word blur for the kind that results from de-differentiating objects or qualities or states of affairs whose differences have been overstated. To refine what blur is and is not, he compares kinds of unclarity found in images by Giotto, Rubens, Hokusai, Kunitora, Manet...

...Anonymous Envoi This essay explores the possibilities of quietism in our time. It begins by examining briefly versions of quietism, Eastern and Western, then turns to particular works of Rilke, Kafka, and Beckett to review exigent images of quietism, variously relevant to the modern condition...

..., to changing times, rather than as behaving like a theorist thinking mainly of his image, reputation, and career. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Bruno Latour political ecology networks Gaia engendering vs. producing References Despret Vinciane . The Dance...

... in their larger social and cultural context the images that medieval women and men used, and employing a comparative analysis of female and male spiritualities, she has demonstrated that each had its own different emphases. In this effort, she has pioneered what is sometimes called a “history of masculinities...

... (in particular, Gustav Weil and Ignác Goldziher) embraced and refined this image of the Muslim prophet as a model for Jewish reform. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 xenophilia Islamophilia Jewish reform movement Gustav Weil Ignác Goldziher Abraham Geiger Heinrich Graetz ...

... that such courses involve both gains and losses. Learning to lecture in front of a blank screen in an airless studio is not easy but has its own rewards if a professional media staff amasses and edits images and sounds. Teaching assistants also have to develop new techniques for involving students in discussion...