...Belle Randall Benjamin Cavell, Rumble, Young Man, Rumble (New York: Vintage, 2003), 191 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Loren Samons II, What’s Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American...

...Adir H. Petel Lynch Deidre Shauna , Loving Literature: A Cultural History ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2015 ), 352 pp. Cumming Laura , The Vanishing Man: In Pursuit of Velázquez ( London : Vintage , 2016 ), 304 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University...

...Diego Marani © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 not for sale POETRY AND FICTION THE MAN WHO MISSED TRAINS Diego Marani Translated by Judith Landry At the time I was working as a server in the Ferrara station bar. I served...

...Wayne Andersen Duke University Press 2004 HOW NOT TO TAKE SIDES Leon Battista Alberti—Renaissance Man? Wayne Andersen My subject here is assertion or assertiveness—or rather, which assertions might be worth disputing and how...

...Jeffrey Berman Iyer Pico , The Man within My Head ( New York : Vintage , 2013 ), 238 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz, D’un ton guerrier en philosophie: Habermas...

... differences between the two. And it is itself an enormously creative and attractive book, elegantly produced and illus- trated in the best MIT Press tradition. Manovich’s prologue takes Dziga Vertov’s 1929 masterpiece Man with a Movie Camera...

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... and certainty. A line of descent is drawn from the speaker of Descartes's Meditations on First Philosophy to Dostoevsky's underground man, and the latter is shown to differ from the former mainly in that the underground man sympathizes consciously with Descartes's bête noire , the “evil deceiver” (Descartes's...

... of the master in favor of the average (rather than of the exceptional) man. This insight drives Nietzsche's view of the “last man,” or slavishly moral human being, and of what he called the Übermensch , which, it is inadequately recognized, was is a concept drawn from Lucian (second century) and used...

..., Surrealists, crisis theologians, and Existentialists. Frank tells the story of how his friendship in the 1950s with Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man , led to Frank's teaching himself Russian in order to read Notes from Underground and write an article on the novella that changed the face of Dostoevsky...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Comparative Relativisim,” Smith argues that relativism is a chimera, half straw man, half red herring. Over the past century, she shows, objections to the supposed position so named have typically involved either...

... of courage by which, though they are open-ended, a man may count as acting bravely. It need not follow that he has adopted the best tactics. Yet he must have responded fittingly to danger. But how is that to be identified? “Ought”-judgments are to be understood contextually, with an implicit relativity...

... “dynamic theory of history,” entails, in the context of The Education , making the distinction between auto-biography and autobiography, between a text generated by an “automaton” and one written by a person. Routed through a discussion of de Man's and Kierkegaard's conceptions of irony, this essay...

... and antipolitical essayist, but the emphasis of the essay falls on how Havel the man dealt with the disappointments he endured in political office, including the passage of “lustration” laws and the election of Václav Klaus as prime minister. The organizing principle of this essay is the distinction made...

... is said to have purchased the man's harp when his worldly goods were posthumously sold. Copyright © 2021 by Duke University Press 2021 Jan van Eyck Ghent Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb Foots Cray England philanthropy watercress In memory of Andrew Martindale “About the year 1428...

... in this man who loves the religion of the other (Hinduism) in proportion to his disillusionment with his own religion (Anglicanism), leading not to a (for him impossible) conversion to Hinduism, but rather to a different form of Christianity (Roman Catholicism). Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...

... by limiting itself to Anglophone works, when the most relevant work is perhaps in French, and by limiting its reach to fiction, when the most relevant genres of art are perhaps poetry, painting, and music. The review concludes by regretting Quigley's making T. S. Eliot her study's straw man and by observing...

... is taken from an article by Isaiah Berlin in CK (7:3 [Winter 1998]: 186–214 and likewise reprinted in the anniversary issue). Perl’s essay argues against the Aristotelian (and, generally, commonsense) presumption that “man is a social animal” and explains that the CK symposium on unsocial thought was meant...