... cism becomes interpretable as a latter- as interpretable becomes cism Romanti mind, in gesture or figure that bearing When blinds. dusty and glass through onasiteonly viewable for centuries, perhaps closed, been had doors the that imagine we may and classics, the overlooking...

... to lyricism, we may even speak of the generic , inescapable lyricism of philosophy per se. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 Colloquium: Lyric Philosophy, More Responsa LYRICAL PHILOSOPHY, OR HOW TO SING WITH MIND Mikhail Epstein A sensitive...

... museum” (à la, perhaps, the Soane Museum in London) along these lines. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 RECONCEIVING THE WARBURG LIBRARY AS A WORKING MUSEUM OF THE MIND Barbara Maria Stafford In a recent article published...

...Matthew Mutter Lilla Mark , The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction ( New York : New York Review of Books , 2016 ), 168 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...

...Marilyn Strathern Fox Robin , The Tribal Imagination: Civilization and the Savage Mind ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2011 ), 417 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Robin Fox...

... of us who try to write interesting books. Lindsay Waters says all the university presses are feeling that kind of pain. Le Coeur en danger has an eight-page preface by Pierre Nora, long a fi gure in French publishing-for-the-mind. The systems of publishing...

... Lear have reached similar conclusions, using comparable means, at roughly the same time, in a context as much literary as psychoanalytic. Freud himself described the mind in literary (which is to say, dramatic) terms, but whereas he understood the human psychic drama as Oedipal and thus tragic...

...Jed Perl O’Donnell C. Oliver , Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art through a Modern American Mind ( University Park : Penn State University Press , 2019 ), 272 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 Li tt le R ev ie w s 11 9adventures of fighting at Troy. In her...

... Little Reviews Human Rights Watch and Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, Dangerous Minds: Political Psychiatry in China Today and its Origins in the Mao Era (New York: Human Rights Watch; Hilversum, the Netherlands: Geneva Initiative on Psychiatry, 2002), 298 pp. The Chinese Communist Party...

...Marjorie Perloff Burns Edward M. , ed., Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner , 2 vols. ( Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint , 2018 ), 2.016 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 6 6 Edward M. Burns, ed., Questioning...

...Miguel Tamen Kramnick Jonathan , Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2018 ), 198 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 3 6 3Jonathan Kramnick, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology...

... difficult, if not impossible, to think of notation in relation to composition; notation has become almost solely associated with reconstruction as a phenomenon of historical interest. But, at the same time, the sense of the score—and hence some notion of notation—seems to remain within the body and the mind...

... of “one mind” as a hermeneutical principle, Thoreau sought to overcome temporal and spatial distance in his reading and to integrate ideas and practices of these Hindu texts from ancient India selectively within his own life. Listening to the voices of Indic sages reinforced Thoreau’s own inclinations...

... thinkers, and “left-wing Kuhnians” under the rubric of the “new fuzziness.” The term had been introduced as an insult by a philosopher of science with positivist leanings, but Rorty took it up as an “endearing” compliment, arguing that “to be less fuzzy” was also to be “less genial, tolerant, open-minded...

... a tragic writer, a radical realist who refused to yield to the temptations of political life. Veblen's quietism also helps to explain the hesitant, often unwelcome reception more ideologically minded scholars have given to his work. Attributing Veblen's quietism to timidity or confusion, they have...

...” of the “great mystery” of the Incarnation, Milton argues in De Doctrina Christiana , should encourage the reader's mind to stand on “guard from the outset” against the tendency to make “rash or hasty assertions.” The urge to tamper with, pry into, add to, or hasten to understand the signifiers of divine meaning...

... of truth and on the existence of a knowable mind-independent world. The importance of a lyric approach for our understanding of a range of ecological questions is discussed, and lyric philosophy is positioned, politically, as a critique of technocracy. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Colloquium...

... of the books” and the Library's “frame of mind.” The essay — which is a somewhat revised excerpt from the author's memoir Episodes: A Memorybook (2010) — goes on to detail various habits of classification in the Warburg Library's arrangement and to show how these have entailed assumptions about how the human...

... and organic wholes may be transformed by means of overlap and mediated juxtaposition into a novel milieu that has a wholeness, authenticity, and charisma of its own. Such coherence depends on minds (a) that are capable of loving what does not satisfy their narcissism and (b) that can sense in the products...