...Averil Cameron Jeffreys Michael Lauxtermann Marc D. , eds., The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 ), 480 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 17 1some empirical findings...

...Dionigi Albera This essay responds to Jeffrey Perl’s introduction to a long-term project of Common Knowledge titled “Xenophilia: Symposium on Xenophobia’s Contrary.” (Perl’s introduction, “Self-Identity and Ambivalence,” appears in CK 23, no. 2 [May 2017]: 225–31.) Responding to a cue from Perl...

...Jeffrey M. Perl This essay, by the editor of Common Knowledge , responds to a piece by Dionigi Albera that, in turn, responds to Jeffrey Perl’s introduction, published in May 2017, to CK ’s multipart symposium on xenophilia. Albera argues that the ambivalence that Perl observes in many instances...

...Colin Richmond The author here extends a dialogue with Jeffrey M. Perl, published in the Spring 2010 issue of Common Knowledge , under the title “`Decorate the Dungeon.'” That dialogue concerns whether Thomas More could have avoided martyrdom though he acted with heroic quietism during...

...Michiko Urita This article responds to Jeffrey Perl's argument (in “Regarding Change at Ise Jingū,” Common Knowledge , Spring 2008) that, while there is a “paradigm shift” at Ise every twenty years, when the enshrined deity Amaterasu “shifts” from the current site to an adjacent one during the rite...

...Wayne Andersen This essay forms part of an “elegiac symposium” on “what gets lost during paradigm shifts,” and it replies to an earlier contribution to that symposium, “ Regarding Change at Ise-Jingu ” by Jeffrey M. Perl ( 14 , no. 2 [ 2008 ]: 208 -20; DOI 10.1215/0961754X-2007-069 ]) . Andersen...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; A. W. Price; John McDowell; Matthew A. Taylor; Caleb Thompson; Douglas Mao This essay is the journal editor's introduction to part 3 of an ongoing symposium on quietism. With reference to writings of James Joyce, Francis Picabia, J. M. Coetzee, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre...

...Benoît Fliche; John Angell In his introduction to the third installment of the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia (vol. 24, no. 1), the journal’s editor, Jeffrey M. Perl, writes about exopraxis and xenophilia, giving as an example of their convergence a Muslim student’s practice of confessing...

...Michiko Urita; Jeffrey M. Perl This article responds to Jeffrey Perl’s argument (in “Regarding Change at Ise Jingū,” Common Knowledge , Spring 2008) that, while there is a “paradigm shift” at Ise every twenty years, when the enshrined deity Amaterasu “shifts” from the current site to an adjacent...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Philip Gossett; Robert Levin; Jeffrey Kallberg; Steven E. Jones; Martin Puchner; Tiffany Stern; Mark Franko; Roger Moseley This essay introduces a Common Knowledge symposium on the relationship between texts (for instance, musical scores or dramatic scripts) and performance...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Michael Seidman; Simon Richards; Daniel Juan Gil; Gordon Marino; Daniel Cottom; Jeffrey J. Kripal Duke University Press 2007 UNSOCIAL THOUGHT, UNCOMMON LIVES Part 3 Jeffrey M. Perl, Michael Seidman, Simon Richards, Daniel Juan Gil, Gordon Marino, Daniel Cottom...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Mita Choudhury; Lesley Chamberlain; Andrea R. Jain; Jeffrey J. Kripal This essay introduces the second installment of a symposium in Common Knowledge called “Apology for Quietism.” This introductory piece concerns the sociology of quietism and why, given the supposed quietude...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Jeffrey M. Perl Hessel Stéphane , Time for Outrage! trans. Searls Damion Arrikha Alba ( London : Quartet , 2011 ), 40 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Jeffrey M. Perl In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge offers excerpts from his two-year correspondence with a reader in Hong Kong, who was drawn to arguments made in the journal about maintaining “quietism and resistance in the face of vile behavior.” In the summer and fall of 2019, during...

...Jeffrey M. Perl In this introduction to Part 1 of “Contextualism—the Next Generation: Symposium on the Future of a Methodology,” the editor of Common Knowledge , a “journal of left-wing Kuhnian opinion,” reports that the new symposium responds to contextualist criticism of the previous CK symposium...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Dennis Marie , ed., Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence , with a preamble by Pope Francis ( Maryknoll, NY : Orbis Books , 2018 ), 256 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 2 Marie Dennis, ed...

...Jeffrey F. Hamburger Keene Bryan C. , ed., Toward a Global Middle Ages: Encountering the World through Illuminated Manuscripts ( Los Angeles : J. Paul Getty Museum , 2019 ), 296 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 4 Bryan C. Keene, ed...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Classicism is assumed to be conservative. T. S. Eliot, called in this book “the archpriest of modernism,” affiliated classicism in literature with royalism in politics and Anglo-Catholicism in religion (but then, the sentence in which he did so was a cheeky parody of Sainte...

...Jeffrey M. Perl Kevin Binfield , ed., Writings of the Luddites . ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2015 ), 279 + xxviii pp. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 When I mentioned to a friend that I was going to review this book, he replied: “Luddites...

...Jeffrey M. Perl [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Recently I received an email inquiring whether I am aware that an article published in the Winter 2003 issue of Common Knowledge was a hoax. The author of the email is a historian of the British...