...Mark P. Watters Sansom Ian , Paper: An Elegy . ( London : Fourth Estate , 2013 ), 224 pp. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.1-12 Reviews 10/31/02 10:36 AM Page 156 LITTLE REVIEWS Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper (New York: Random House, 2001), 370 pp...

...Miguel Tamen Li tt le R ev ie w s 3 6 3Jonathan Kramnick, Paper Minds: Literature and the Ecology of Consciousness (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018), 198 pp. Scholars of eighteenth- century British literature are attracted to large questions, and more than a few recently have sought...

...Clifford Geertz; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall...

...Stephen Toulmin; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall...

...Kwame Anthony Appiah; Joseph Frank; Stanley N. Katz; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring...

...William Vesterman Duke University Press 2002 CK 8.3-02 Vesterman 7/14/02 3:11 PM Page 439 THE DEATH OF THE SCIENTIFIC AUTHOR Multiple Authorship in Scientific Papers William Vesterman Movement...

... vernacular adapted by Richard Rorty—to achieve solidarity among them. Common Knowledge enmagazined that project. In its 1992 inaugural issue, CK called for papers by theorists taking back the claims that had made their reputations; and perhaps the most significant achieve...

...Joseph Frank Duke University Press 2007 A R T I C L E S THE CONSEQUENCE OF IAN WATT A Call for Papers on Diminished Reputations Joseph Frank Several years ago, a small California press published a volume...

...Paul Feyerabend; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring 1992 and the succeeding issue, Fall...

... Fowden, Jeffrey M. Perl, Alick Isaacs, Peter Burke, Marcel Detienne, Anne Carson INTRODUCTION A decade ago, the first two numbers of Common Knowledge included several “calls for papers” as a way of suggesting some of the questions that the editors...

...Cornelius Castoriadis; Stanley Cavell; Steven Marcus; Jeffrey M. Perl At the founding editor’s invitation in 1991–92, the members of the editorial board and the department editors of Common Knowledge wrote individual and small-group calls for papers to be published in the inaugural issue of Spring...

... (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 350 pp. This is an uneven, but in places suggestive, collection of papers on the present status of the concept of culture and cultural analysis in the historical sciences. There is an overall anxiety, a bit excessive...

... first twenty-five years. Kermode had called for papers in the journal’s inaugural issue (1:1 [Spring 1992]: 5–6) on “the question of value” and was to a degree disappointed with the results. He had wanted the ensuing symposium to treat and even focus on axiology in the arts, but the papers answering his...

... it is possible that a rational examination of motives and sources pertaining to a misunderstanding may help to minimize its undesirable effects upon communication, a misunderstanding may also signal the incontrovertible and irresolvable nature of a disagreement. This paper, therefore—while basically Habermasian...

...Abdulaziz Sachedina The paper undertakes to investigate the Shī`ī practice of prudential concealment ( taqīya ) as a source of both quietism and political activism. The practice functioned as a strategy of survival for the Shī `ī minority living under hostile Sunni regimes. Although Sunni...

...-games playing, especially for “tennys,” this paper is essentially a list of possessions that evidence the blend of frivolity and cruelty characteristic of Henry's self-indulgent reign. Duke University Press 2009 columns 1509 Colin Richmond Item XI 49...

...Sean McMeekin This essay applies the concept of “fuzzy thinking” to geopolitics, using a curious turn of phrase in a 1914 policy paper (“the Islamic-Israelite world”) to explore paradoxes of German strategy in World War I. To find the origins of this phrase, the article explores the language...

....” 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...

...Andreas Roepstorff In responding to Barbara Herrnstein Smith's article, “The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy,” this essay addresses a number of recently published research papers attempting to identify the neuronal correlates of cultural selves. However, underlying these studies...