...Edward Albee; Raymond Carver Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 Carver Raymond , Carnations: A Play in One Act, Common Knowledge 2 , no. 3 ( Winter 1993 ): 152 – 59 . ...

...Caryl Emerson Kotin Joshua , Utopias of One ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2018 ), 205 pp. Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 51duction to the letters, the editor claims that Trilling, unlike other literary critics of his time (Ransom, Randall Jarrell, Allen Tate, Edmund Wilson...

.... To know exactly what is going on in the operating theater, we might also wish to ask how this act speaks to persons cutting themselves off from one another. Duke University Press 2011 Symposium: Comparative Relativism ONE, TWO, THREE Cutting, Counting...

...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...

...Sissela Bok © 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 “NO ONE TO RECEIVE IT”? Simone Weil’s Unforeseen Legacy Sissela Bok On August 16, 1943...

...György Konrád; Jim Tucker © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 ARTICLES THE ONE WHO LEAVES György Konrád Translated by Jim Tucker The forced kind is horrible. To have to leave behind all that is yours...

... in medieval religious language and art where gender (or even other) binaries “come unstuck.” Mills is both serious and passionate; and there is no way one can refute (nor need one want to) an argument that there “may be” space for a given reaction...

...Adir H. Petel The literary and critical discourse about characters and characterization in Anglophone drama and fiction since the Renaissance shows a persistent but underrecognized presence of three idioms and vocabularies, two highly developed and one nascent, that either derive from the rhetoric...

....” If the notion of relativism can be rendered relative unto itself, as the notion of a “comparative” relativism would seem to suggest, then how might one understand its “position” within the kinds of debates in which Smith's paper, by way of commentary, also participates? In particular, if part of Smith's aim...

...Bethany Moreton This essay review of Margaret Atwood's Payback centers on the observation that the book does not dwell on the unnatural face of interest and finance. In this era of financialization, debt has been thoroughly uncoupled from the concept of payback. The least valuable debt is the one...

...William M. Chace Some writers are drawn, almost as if hexed, to pronounce on matters of state, politics, and, occasionally, economic policy. Margaret Atwood is one such writer. Her book Payback suffers from its aspiration to create an idealistic and implausible world to take the place of the one we...

...,” and reflects the way that Latin speakers viewed early Christianity as a phenomenon of the countryside, much as the English heathen , or German Heide , derives from a root meaning “heath.” Greek-speaking Christians, by contrast, used a variety of terms, but their favored one was Hellene , which reflected...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Colin Richmond; Abdulaziz Sachedina; Branka Arsić; Anonymous Envoi In the place of an introduction to part 5 of the Common Knowledge symposium on forms of quietism, the journal's editor and one of its longtime columnists discuss, in dialogue format, the case of Thomas More. Could...

... is that the condition among nonstate societies was and is neither one of permanent war nor one of permanent peace but one of permanent peacelessness . Nonstate societies recognize the danger of warfare and take measures to reduce its likelihood, or at least try to mitigate its destructiveness. This article treats...

...Miguel Tamen; Wayne Andersen; Velcheru Narayana Rao; Sanjay Subrahmanyam; Ingrid D. Rowland; J. Paul Hunter; Yoke-Sum Wong The essay discusses the presumption of one's singularity, the uniqueness of one's time, the picturesqueness of one actions, and the capacity of human beings, whether...

.... The column is published in the context of two others regarding this latter topic — one by Natalie Zemon Davis, the author of the microhistorical classic The Return of Martin Guerre , and one by Colin Rich-mond. Davis’s column is a response to Keith Thomas’s having drawn approving attention to the following...

...Albert O. Hirschman; Jeffrey M. Perl In a survey spanning over half a century of his own work, Hirschman, among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century on political economy, celebrates the ability to undermine one’s own claims and theories. Whereas skepticism toward other people’s...

... and spaces of devotion can also be predatory. There are cases in which exopraxis amounts to an act of predation on what makes a religion to which one does not belong successful, and there are cases in which it amounts to an act of appropriation, for one’s own purposes, of a sacred place belonging to another...

...Benoît Fliche Exopraxis—a term for religious practices in places of worship associated with a religion not one’s own—is often associated with heteropraxis , a term for unorthodox religious practices. Heteropraxes, which may be shared by members of more than one religion, can diverge so widely from...

...Wayne Andersen Like earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, the current international monetary crisis—bank failures and a collapse of markets worldwide—was not sufficiently predictable to preempt with defensive action. One would think that history's experiences with sudden breakdowns in global...