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... 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...

...Rebecca Bushnell Li tt le R ev ie w s 11 5the director of the Getty Trust, James Cuno, which reprises his plaidoyers in Who Owns Antiquity? (2008) and Museums Matter (2013) for the encyclopedic museum as an engine of a counternarrative to those of modern nation- states claiming...

... in consciousness that characterize modern religion. O'Connor, a devout Catholic born in Savannah, Georgia, shows the action of grace in a series of backwoods freaks and fanatics, revealing with humor and compassion the incarnational possibilities in everyday southern life. Harries concludes with a discussion...

...Belle Randall [email protected] Bob Dylan , The Philosophy of Modern Song ( New York : Simon and Schuster , 2022 ), 339 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 The Philosophy of Modern Song : curious title, a curious book. If you bought it, as I did...

... modern Europe. In a nice neologism, Mulsow names this group the Wissenprekariat (or “intellectual precariat”): his “knowledge underclass” includes radicals, obsessives, and cranks, but also mainstream scholars who simply became what Michel Foucault liked to call “infamous”—both scandalous...

...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...

... “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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...Albert R. Jonsen; Jeffrey M. Perl Dunne Joseph , Back to the Rough Ground: “Phronesis” and “Techne” in Modern Philosophy and in Aristotle ( Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press , 1993 ), 492 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Quentin Skinner; Jeffrey M. Perl Clark Stuart , Thinking with Demons: The Idea of Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe ( Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1997 ), 827 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Leor Halevi Constable Olivia Remie , To Live like a Moor: Christian Perceptions of Muslim Identity in Medieval and Early Modern Spain , ed. Vose Robin , foreword by Nirenberg David ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2018 ), 248 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke...