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...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...

...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...

...Raphael Magarik McDonald Grantley , Biblical Criticism in Early Modern Europe: Erasmus, the Johannine Comma, and Trinitarian Debate . ( New York : Cambridge University Press , 2016 ), 400 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... “primitives,” they had taken the wrong road and ended up in a cul-de-sac, in contrast to contemporaries such as Géricault and Delacroix, Constable and Turner, who had taken the road that led, without break, to modernity. To the Nazarenes, however, as to the neoclassical artists of the turn of the eighteenth...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Duke University Press 2004 THE PRESENCE OF OBJECTS Medieval Anti-Judaism in Modern Germany Caroline Walker Bynum On the southwest corner of a large brick Gothic church in the little town of Sternberg in north Germany is a curious stone. Mortared...

...Galin Tihanov Duke University Press 2004 WHY DID MODERN LITERARY THEORY ORIGINATE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE? (And Why Is It Now Dead?) Galin Tihanov At the outset of the twenty-first century, we seem at last positioned to recognize and admit the demise of literary theory...

... Shaping of Thought and COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON Roger Ames and David Hall’s popularizations of Confucianism, to the works of erudite sinologists such as A. C. Graham and Christoph Harbsmeier, who by positioning themselves as preeminent modern interpreters of ancient...

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... between the two men and places them in the “Early Enlightenment” world sur- rounding them, with great skill and precision, and sees the origins of modern anthropology in the formulations, reformulations, and counterreformulations that finally drove them profoundly apart. If Herder remains, despite...

...J. G. A. Pocock Anthony Grafton, What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 330 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Michael Hunter, Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice (Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 171 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama...

.... Is, therefore, our e-mail society a loveless, sexless, and brainless culture? Send your answer on a postcard, please. —Colin Richmond Robert Pippin, Henry James and Modern Moral Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000...

... Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), 358 pp. We badly need alternative histories of philosophy. The story told (by me, among others) about philosophy from Descartes...

... LITTLE REVIEWS Susan Neiman, Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), 358 pp. We badly need alternative histories of philosophy. The story told (by me, among others...

... between the two men and places them in the “Early Enlightenment” world sur- rounding them, with great skill and precision, and sees the origins of modern anthropology in the formulations, reformulations, and counterreformulations that finally drove them profoundly apart. If Herder remains, despite...

...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...

...Keith Thomas Koslofsky Craig , Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 431 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Ramie Targoff Keith Thomas, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 416 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Brigitte Le Juez, Beckett before...