...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...

...Clifford Geertz Barry Allen, Knowledge and Civilization , with a foreword by Richard Rorty (Boulder, CO: Westview, 2004), 342 pp. Duke University Press 2006 L I T T L E R E V I E W S Robert Mills, Suspended Animation: Pain, Pleasure, and Punishment...

... paint with meaning for himself (a self of which we know little in the form of reminiscences, but of which White gleans a lot from the canvases)—and with meaning for so many of us even now. —Ian Hacking Common Knowledge 10:2 Copyright 2004 by Duke University...

... with its most rev- olutionary insights.” More, it is “the mother tongue of our modernity.” Copjec Common Knowledge 9:3 Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press...

...G. W. Bowersock Whitmarsh Tim , ed., Local Knowledge and Microidentities in the Imperial Greek World . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2010 ), 228 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua...

... is probably less the result of an applied pacifist ideology—that is, rejection of war as the socius 's generative matrix—than the effect of a specific conception of knowledge. It is through the Xinguans' refusal of the idea of singular truth, rather than through their rejection of war, that their logic...

... knowledge” is possible only to the extent to which it can be stated in words corresponding to universal human concepts — a set of which has been identified through empirical cross-linguistic investigations — rather than in words whose meanings have been shaped by a particular history and culture. Finally...

...Sari Nusseibeh Al-Musawi Muhsin J. , The Medieval Islamic Republic of Letters: Arabic Knowledge and Construction . ( Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press , 2015 ), 449 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...Mary Baine Campbell; Lorraine Daston; Arnold I. Davidson; John Forrester; Simon Goldhill 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 ” ? ENLIGHTENMENT NOW Concluding Reflections on Knowledge...

...Barry Allen Jemielniak Dariusz , Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia . ( Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2014 ), 293 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 LITTLE REVIEWS Dariusz Jemielniak, Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia...

... that keeps violence there under control is probably less the result of an applied pacifist ideology—that is, rejection of war as the socius ’s generative matrix—than the effect of a specific conception of knowledge. It is through the Xinguans’ refusal of the idea of singular truth, rather than through...

...G. W. Bowersock; Jeffrey M. Perl This response to two academic conferences—“Local Knowledge and Microidentities,” held in England in 2004, and “Patrie d’origine et patries électives,” held in France in 2009—argues that “the idea of the local can only arise from a supralocal perspective” and, thus...

...M. H. Abrams; Jeffrey M. Perl Hagberg G. L. , Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 1994 ), 183 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Rebecca Bushnell Vine Angus , Miscellaneous Order: Manuscript Culture and the Early Modern Organization of Knowledge ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 ), 285 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Li tt le R ev ie w s 11 5the director of the Getty Trust, James...

... caught up with its most rev- olutionary insights.” More, it is “the mother tongue of our modernity.” Copjec Common Knowledge 9:3 Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press...

...Anders Blok This guest column asks how Bruno Latour has contributed to any present and future refiguring of relations between the sciences and the humanities. To answer the question, it traces three select and shifting figures of knowledge by means of which Latour himself has been charting his...

... an object for knowledge; nothing can be an object of knowledge until the blur is resolved and clarity attained. Chinese tradition offers suggestive examples of the thought that blur, so far from being incompatible with knowledge, might be its condition of possibility and the explanation of its value...

...Brook Ziporyn The article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” analyzes the metaphysical assumptions behind the valorization of “clear and distinct ideas,” apodictic knowledge, and definitiveness, and it suggests alternatives derived from...

...Daniel Innerarity In a so-called knowledge society, whenever we have to choose, decide, anticipate, or entrust a task, the range of options available tends to be so large that we cannot be satisfied that no relevant possibilities have been overlooked. Both individuals and societies as a whole...

...Jochen Brüning This contribution, by a mathematician, to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” examines some mechanisms that seem essential for the “ratchet effect” that, in Michael Tomasello's use of the term, refers to the ability of human cultures to preserve their achievements even...