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... 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...

... 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...

...Charles Sullivan Israel Jonathan , A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2010 ), 276 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012...

... 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...

... the benefits and the limitations of close attention to literature when teach- ing the young. Caroline Walker Bynum doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723238 C. Oliver O Donnell, Meyer Schapiro s Critical Debates: Art through a Modern American Mind (University Park: Penn State University Press, 2019), 272 pp. Can a writer...

...Caroline Walker Bynum [email protected] Inbar Graiver , Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antique Monasticism ( Toronto : Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies , 2018 , paperback, 2021), 237 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University...

... 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...

...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...

... 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 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 6 6 Edward M. Burns, ed., Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, 2 vols. (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2018), 2,016 pp. This monumental edition of the correspondence between two of the great liter- ary critics...

...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...

...Jack Miles [email protected] Mustafa Akyol , Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance ( New York : St. Martin's Essentials , 2021 ), 308 pp. Omri Boehm , Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel ( New York : New York Review...

... 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...

... ideas — especially Descartes's argument that a mind “unclouded and attentive” can be “wholly freed from doubt” ( Rules III, 5) — this essay then turns to assess the validity of counter-Enlightenment arguments, mostly Russian but also anglophone and French, against the association of clarity...

... 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...

...-American mind. The reviewer asks whether the Chinese, now facing a plurality of histories, wonder if there may be a plurality of li (principles), as well, or at least if there can be a li that is “universal” in the sense that it is common to them all. The problem here, the reviewer argues, in part derives...