... “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...

...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...

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...John Q. Stilwell Paul Raffield, Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England: Justice and Political Power, 1558 – 1600 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), 304 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE...

...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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...Gregory B. Stone © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 S y m p o s i u m : U n s o c i a l T h o u g h t , U n c o m m o n L i v e s , Pa r t 1 THE NAMELESS WILD ONE The Ethics of Anonymous Subjectivity —  Medieval and Modern Gregory B. Stone He...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

.... 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...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Powell Amy Knight , Depositions: Scenes from the Late Medieval Church and the Modern Museum ( New York : Zone Books , 2012 ), 376 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from...

...Nina Pelikan Straus Cavanagh Clare , Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2009 ), 344 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Amy Knight Powell, Depositions: Scenes from...

...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...