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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 136–137.
Published: 01 January 2013
...Michael Fagenblat Žižek Slavoj and Milbank John , The Monstrosity of Christ: Paradox or Dialectic? , ed. Davis Creston ( Cambridge, MA : MIT Press , 2009 ), 312 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 345.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Felix Girke Hirata Keiko and Warschauer Mark , Japan: The Paradox of Harmony . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 304 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 LITTLE REVIEWS Keiko Hirata...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (1): 110.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Paul Seabright Wrangham Richard , The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution ( London : Profile , 2019 ), 400 pp. Copyright © 2021 Duke University Press 2021 C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 11 0 Richard Wrangham, The Goodness...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 152–162.
Published: 01 May 2024
...Caroline Walker Bynum Abstract Using historical rather than philosophical means, this essay responds to a philosophical discussion of the problem of evil. Instead of constructing arguments in support of a general, theoretical position, the author examines a single, paradoxical image from the vision...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 128–145.
Published: 01 January 2011
... of anthropology, comparison, and relativism. Duke University Press 2011 Translated by Antonia Walford Symposium: Comparative Relativism ZENO AND THE ART OF ANTHROPOLOGY Of Lies, Beliefs, Paradoxes, and Other Truths Eduardo Viveiros de Castro...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 474–492.
Published: 01 August 2010
... of the article treats a relevant paradox in the worldview of the early Wittgenstein: his positive exhortations for certain types of speech and silence, for certain types of action and inaction, seem in conflict with his statement that, in the world, “there is no value—and if there were, it would be of no value...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 265–272.
Published: 01 April 2014
... explores Zwicky's acknowledged debt to the paradoxes and aphorisms of Heraclitus, in whose thought the “backward-turning connection” of the lyre plays a central role. Hobbs suggests that, although both Heraclitus and Zwicky use language to stimulate profound changes in the reader's perception...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 193–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
... this paradoxical stance, with reference to Plato's allusions to it. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 sortition the Athenian constitution democracy as moral anarchy Plato's Socrates Xenophon's Socrates According to Xenophon, who gives voice...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 141–172.
Published: 01 May 2023
... into an anti‐world — a society whose purpose is to undermine and destroy. Emerging Russian cults of war, death, and apocalypticism are stressed, as are the paradoxes and inversions by which Russia, in attempting to become stronger, becomes weaker and indeed suicidal. [email protected] Copyright © 2023...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 18–22.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Richard Kieckhefer Abstract Caroline Walker Bynum's work illustrates how a historian engages in conversation about matters of interest to historical subjects, matters of interest within the academy, and matters of concern to the general public. The key methodological paradox is how she respects...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2011
.... Comparative studies are required to treat their objects as alike, at least in some crucial respects; relativism indicates the limits of this practice. Jensen argues that this seeming paradox is productive, as he moves across contexts, from Lévi-Strauss's analysis of comparison as an anthropological method...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (3): 441–449.
Published: 01 August 2011
... “Aristotelian, bivalent logic” in favor of a “fuzzy logic” based on Zadeh's “fuzzy set theory.” This introductory piece relates these theoretical works of the past half-century to the sorites paradox and to classical issues of vagueness raised and still unresolved in Western philosophy. Returning then to Rorty...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 April 2013
...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...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 177–197.
Published: 01 April 2010
... the Polish “Generation of `68” how best to undo oppression and why they should do so. Emphasis falls on the difficulty, unpredictability, and unclassifiable features of Kołakowski's writings—features that, paradoxically, did not stand in the way of his becoming not only the “prince of philosophers,” but also...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 406–419.
Published: 01 September 2015
...-47s, are allowed into Ugandan territory for pasture during drought, and some Turkana take violent advantage of this power imbalance as they leave. Paradoxically, intervention by Ugandan state institutions that, in the name of peaceful coexistence, welcome the Turkana in Uganda has led...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 177–183.
Published: 01 April 2015
... but also by their evident surprise at being asked to recall what they had studied in any previous course. This essay—a guest column in Common Knowledge —goes on to generalize the implications of the incident, arguing that, paradoxically, the effect of period courses is to erase the sense of historical...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 518–523.
Published: 01 September 2016
... on the Consequence of Blur,” published in 2011–13. He points out that there are aesthetic forms and concepts of vagueness that are related only tangentially to what analytic philosophers, in treating the “ sorites paradox” and its implications, have meant by the term, and he suggests that this book suffers...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 337–362.
Published: 01 April 2014
... Rottenburg, which offers parables of modern development aid; and in the scholarship of Helen Verran, a philosopher and STS ethnographer who constructs the figure of the good faith analyst. Coming to terms with the challenges, possibilities, tensions, and paradoxes of these and other postcritical responses...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 385–406.
Published: 01 August 2020
..., despite the offense to modern sensibilities that such implies. Paradoxically, indifference toward Muslims’ religion, such as on the part of neighbors or business partners, might also have a place in a discussion of Islamophilia, precisely because it rejects essentialism. Copyright © 2020 Duke University...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 262–279.
Published: 01 May 2021
... during the eighteenth century by J. C. Gottsched, J. J. Bodmer, and J. J. Breitinger. Special attention is given to the paradox that Gottsched, the leader of the German antiquarians, and Bodmer, the leader of the German progressives, were equally devoted to the Leibnizian-Wolffian philosophical system...