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“PRE-Postmodern”: Four Jewish Nationalist Thinkers of the Last Century
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 292–311.
Published: 01 April 2012
... – 1988) mounted Zionist arguments of a sort that we now regard as poststructuralist or postmodern. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 2
“PRE-POSTMODERN”
Four Jewish Nationalist Thinkers of the Last Century
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The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's “Aeneid”
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 512.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Richard Jenkyns Hardie Philip , The Last Trojan Hero: A Cultural History of Virgil's “Aeneid” . ( London : I. B. Tauris , 2014 ), 256 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...
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THE LAST INN: An Excerpt
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 545–553.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Imre Kertész This text, excerpted from a “diary novel” by Imre Kertész, appeared in both Hungarian and German in 2014. Now suffering with an advanced stage of Parkinson's disease, the author considers it the last work that he will be able to complete. © 2014 by Imre Kertész 2014 Holocaust...
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Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves by Frans de Waal
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 109.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Thibault De Meyer Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 0 9Frans de Waal, Mama s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves (London: Granta Books, 2019), 326 pp. The first step of de Waal s argument that animals have emotions is empirical. With his acute talent in observing behaviors...
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The Last Judgment tympanum, west central portal, abbey church of Saint-Deni...
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Figure 8. The Last Judgment tympanum, west central portal, abbey church of Saint-Denis.
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in Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 1. Jean Bellegambe, Altarpiece of the Last Judgment (1520–25). Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Detail of the lower half of the center panel: the dead rise from the ground to be reassembled, judged, and led by angels (and demons) to their final abode. The unfortunate
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in Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student
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Published: 01 January 2024
Figure 2. Jean Bellegambe, Altarpiece of the Last Judgment (1520–25). Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Gemäldegalerie. Detail of the upper half of the left panel: small groups of the elect are borne up into the sky while crowds of their companions gather in celebration on the renewed earth
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THE LAST OF HIS LINE
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (1): 122–125.
Published: 01 January 2005
...Fleur Jaeggy Fleur Jaeggy 2005 not for sale Translated by Ann Goldstein F I C TIO N
THE LAST OF HIS LINE
Fleur Jaeggy
Translated by Ann Goldstein
Silent and morose the servants sat in the kitchen. The fi rstborn son...
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The Death of a Poet: The Last Days of Marina Tsvetaeva
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 491–492.
Published: 01 August 2005
...-authored texts. infl and reception, making, the toexplore feminism astute and philology Sara Poor’s book is a stunningly good example—that combines sophisticatedto ain voice speak of own.their At last we to begin have whichscholarship—of aboutitpossiblefor womenwhether was writers Frenchby...
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Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 294.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Susan Stephens Joyce Tyldesley, Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 290 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS
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Elizabeth Fox-Genovese: First and Lasting Impressions
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 1–9.
Published: 01 January 2008
... of Rochester in the mid-1970s, have been lasting impressions. The seminar introduced patterns of thought and behavior that proved consistent over the years, despite Fox-Genovese's several shifts in the past three decades—from Marxist to non-Marxist, historian of France to historian of antebellum Southern women...
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The “Dictatorship of Relativism” Revisited: Platonism vs. Pneumatology in the Vatican
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 190–217.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Yaakov Mascetti In 2005, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took the occasion of his last homily before election as Pope Benedict XVI to assault what he termed the “dictatorship of relativism,” and Common Knowledge responded in 2007 with a double issue (vol. 13, nos. 2–3) in defense of relativism. Yaakov...
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Dilemmas of Sharing Religious Space: Christian Migrants in the Maghreb
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 290–297.
Published: 01 April 2020
... endeavor. In Tunisia, political independence in 1956 was accompanied by a further reinvigoration of Christianity, and, over the last twenty years, conversion to Christianity (mainly in the form of evangelical and neo-evangelical Protestantism) has been on the rise. Beginning in 2003, workers and students...
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Calendars of Exopraxis: On the Temporality of Muslim-Christian Shared Celebrations in Late Ottoman Cappadocia
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 308–332.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Aude Aylin de Tapia In the nineteenth-century Ottoman empire, Cappadocia, in the heart of Anatolia, was one of the last regions where Rum Orthodox Christians cohabited with Muslims in rural areas. Among the main aspects of everyday coexistence were the beliefs and ritual practices that, shared...
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THE FUZZINESS OF “PAGANISM”
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 249–254.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Christopher P. Jones The subject of “the last pagans” or “the end of paganism” in the Greco-Roman world has interested scholars for over a century but begs the question “What is paganism?” Is the term usable as a tool of analysis? It originates from the Latin paganus , meaning “villager,” “rustic...
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A Tale of Two Provosts
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 211–216.
Published: 01 April 2013
... between two eminent academic leaders of the last century, Jacques Barzun of Columbia and Frederick Terman of Stanford. Employing data generated by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute for Higher Education and Times Higher Education , Cole shows that universities are today ranked in order...
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Sharp Edges, False Comfort
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 237–256.
Published: 01 April 2013
... to reassure us. But they fail: the phenomenon to which they appeal in explaining rational activity — a person's grasping its norms — itself presupposes such activity. The question whether a person knows the norms of her activity is a central way of organizing the disputes of the last sixty years over whether...
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Victims, Fighters, Survivors: Quietism and Activism in Israeli Historical Consciousness
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 493–517.
Published: 01 August 2010
..., and survivors as they were formulated during the last years of World War II and after the establishment of the State of Israel. Behind these images stood historical, concrete human beings who were classified according to concepts supplied by Zionist and historical Jewish culture, in which activism vs. quietism...
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Depression: Financial, Post-Manic, and Floral
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 523–532.
Published: 01 August 2009
... economics would have taught the modern world enough lessons to assure that economic intelligence would have tightened the reins of investors and speculators over the last decade of runaway optimism. But history has never been a good teacher—better said, people have rarely been good students of history's...
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Responding to Animals
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 351–360.
Published: 01 April 2010
... that remains available, given the development of moral discourse during the last three hundred years. The willingness to respond to the call is admirable; but the restriction on moral discourse that makes this the only available form of moral response is, Rowlands suggests, both admirable and regrettable...
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