...Stanley N. Katz Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-01 Katz 7/14/02 3:07 PM Page 427 EXCELLENCE IS BY NO MEANS ENOUGH Intellectual Philanthropy and the Just University Stanley N. Katz Last year...

...Randall Collins Duke University Press 2002 ON THE ACRIMONIOUSNESS OF INTELLECTUAL DISPUTES Randall Collins We must never forget that genuine schools [of thought] are sociological realities. They have their structures—relations between leaders and followers—their flags...

... philosopher Miskawayh consists of “Conclusive Answers to Disparate Questions” put to him by Tawhidi, a literary intellectual. The book should not be viewed simply as a window for the modern English reader on what occupied the minds of thinkers in that milieu and of that period. As Vasalou notes...

...Caryl Emerson [email protected] Andrea Gullotta , Intellectual Life and Literature at Solovki, 1923–1930: The Paris of the Northern Concentration Camps ( Cambridge : Legenda , 2018 ), 359 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 Russia is again becoming...

...Julia Kristeva; Jeffrey M. Perl Written originally as part of a Common Knowledge symposium (2007) responding to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger’s homily against relativism, which was delivered immediately before his election as pope, this essay describes a reactionary German intellectual current...

... that intellectuals have a special obligation to work cooperatively to eliminate intellectual obstacles that stand in the way of commensuration, communication, and comprehension globally. It is this responsibility that he calls “intellectual philanthropy.” university values liberal arts philanthropy...

...David Bellos Jason Mazzone , Copyfraud and Other Abuses of Intellectual Property Law ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2011 ), 311 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 [email protected] Copy right gives creators a monopoly on most uses...

...Julia Kristeva Duke University Press 2007 S y m p o s i u m : A “ D i c t a t o r s h i p o f R e l a t i v i s m ” ? RETHINKING “NORMATIVE CONSCIENCE” The Task of the Intellectual Today Julia Kristeva It is common knowledge...

... for the past forty years in Paris, Todorov under- stands, as have few of his fellow literary theorists, that the totalitarianisms of the early century—fascism and communism—are two sides of the same coin and that they appeal to intellectuals because of their utopian cast, while democracy, messy...

..., the author discloses the recent emergence of an unexpected cultural practice: a hybrid of anthropology and philosophy that takes metaphysics, as distinct from ontology, as both its object and its method. The distinction between metaphysics and ontology is crucial to this new “intellectual space” because...

...Charles Sullivan Israel Jonathan , A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 276 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

...Elizabeth Freund Geoffrey Hartman, A Scholar's Tale: Intellectual Journey of a Displaced Child of Europe (New York: Fordham University Press, 2007), 195 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil...

...Bill Sherman [email protected] Martin Mulsow , Knowledge Lost: A New View of Early Modern Intellectual History , trans. H. C. Erik Midelfort ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2022 ), 434 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 The first...

... and cause of evil. Her claim that twentieth- century intellectuals were to Auschwitz as eighteenth-century intellectuals were to Lisbon works for some people, such as Adorno, but hardly for all. Lisbon impugned God, but Auschwitz only impugned Inevitable...

...Steven I. Levine [email protected] Sebastian Veg , Min Jian: The Rise of China's Grassroots Intellectuals ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2019 ), 361 pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2022 In China, the shock of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen...

...Richard A. Shweder In the aftermath of the events of September 11, 2001, Stanley Katz (who now chairs the editorial board of this journal) invited the intellectual community to reflect on its own history of involvement in public affairs and to make good on its mistakes. This essay examines a single...

...Mitchell Cohen This article explores the problem of the political responsibilities of intellectuals and philosophers through an appraisal of Michael Walzer's work on the idea of “connected criticism.” The author elaborates the main elements of this theory, shows how it approaches various thinkers...

... about modernization and reform similar to the one that Toulmin advances in Return to Reason . Toulmin took a special, and evidently personal, delight in that novel's portrait of the shortcomings of intellectuals, for whom abstract theory and solidarity with other intellectuals count above all...

... appeared to others contrary kinds of demand or appeal, he never settled, as a philosopher and public intellectual, on syntheses that made good sense to his contemporaries. They were unable to locate him on their intellectual and political maps. As he writes, “If there is anything to the idea that the best...

...Richard Shiff Academics generate circles of thought. Their preferred modes of conceptualization—the intellectual constructions in circulation within academic discourse at a given moment—readily pass across disciplinary boundaries. During the past two centuries, philosophical critique...