...Charles Foster de Waal Frans , Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? ( London : Granta , 2016 ), 336 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Stephen Mulhall Cavell Stanley , Little Did I Know: Excerpts From Memory ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2010 ), 584 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander, Duel...

...Jill Kraye Blair Ann , Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2010 ), 397 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

... Daoist sources, where a different model of knowing prevails. That model undermines the idea of purposive willing in the service of goals known in advance, and undermines as well the bases for any human or divine activity designed to achieve definite ends. If purpose is not privileged either...

...Charles Foster Balcombe Jonathan , What a Fish Knows: The Inner Lives of Our Underwater Cousins ( New York : Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2016 ), 288 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

.... Knowing about Martin Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther’s Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change essential to understanding Martin Guerre’s village world and what happened in it. Themes...

... 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 1 THE CLOUD OF KNOWING Blurring the Difference with China Barry Allen Small and inconspicuous things like clouds of dust speak volumes to a careful...

...Ian Hacking Mialet Hélène , Hawking Incorporated: Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 ), 266 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE...

...Natalie Zemon Davis Responding to a quip by a fellow historian, who feared that Martin Guerre might become better known than Martin Luther, this guest column, by the author of The Return of Martin Guerre , affirms that they are part of the same universe of historical inquiry. Knowing about Martin...

... need to confront, what we celebrate as a “knowledge society” is also a society of ignorance. This essay, published as a guest column, concludes that, in the coming years, the principal controversies we will face will involve questions about what we know, about what we do not know, and about...

..., and the emphasis placed on how splitting open part of patient's body is never a matter of a point of view. But to know exactly what is going on in the operating theater, we might wish to ask how this act speaks to the act of intellectual bifurcation, splitting open what up to then had been a seamless argument...

... the globalization of yoga as we know it today. This article concludes by suggesting that microhistorical work on the activities of translators may aid in understanding the part that local knowledge can play in our global future. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 xenophilia xenophobia yoga translation...

... identifying it as a biography (of the sort practiced by Irving Stone, Somerset Maugham, and Dimitri Merejkovski), since Calasso, like most other writers on Tiepolo, stresses how little we know about his personality, which was elusive, and about his private life, which was undramatic. What chiefly interests...

... Seminar” component of the “Making and Knowing Project,” under the direction of Professor Pamela Smith, each was responsible for reconstructing, annotating, and contextualizing historical recipes from a sixteenth-century French manuscript. Working both in and beyond their chemistry lab, the authors reflect...

... of unrestrained and incoherent sexual indulgence.” These women, however, “know what love is,” namely “the touchstone of a true or a false spirituality,” and each of them finds a means of “telling God.” Sappho Marguerite Porete Simone Weil decreation women’s spirituality Copyright © 2002 Duke...

... is a collage of diverse original sources—Randall’s poetry and memories, Cavell’s memoir Little Did I Know , and relevant passages in Wittgenstein and Augustine—that involve the interplay of events in Cavell’s personal life with the dissertation that in time became his first book, Must We Mean What We Say...

... and phenomenology, as a means of knowing what it was like to believe in Aristotelian, as opposed to modern, concepts of matter, quality, space, void, position, change, and motion. The essay then introduces the first contribution to the new symposium: a monograph retrieving geometrical and taxonomic—Euclidean...

...György Konrád; Jim Tucker Abstract Originally published in Common Knowledge 11, no. 2 (Fall 2005), this essay is reprinted in 2022 as the prelude to the first installment of a project titled “Antipolitics” and dedicated to the author's memory. “To really know” what a writer “is like,” Konrád writes...

... examines in detail and criticizes one such argument, made by Patrick Leigh Fermor, in the context of his discussing an incident during World War II, when he and a captured German general found a form of agreement, a ground for peace between them, in their both knowing Horace's ode I.9 by heart in Latin...

... and widespread fear of the coercive power of modern society. The price of the victory over evil, in these tales, is disenchantment. Tolkien is the first author to imagine disenchantment on a near-global scale, using literal disenchantment as a metaphor for a kind he could expect his readers to know firsthand...