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...Stuart Clark Megan Aldrich and Robert J. Wallis, eds., Antiquaries and Archaists: The Past in the Past, the Past in the Present (Reading, U.K.: Spire Books, 2009), 170 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Darnton Robert , The Case for Books: Past, Present, and Future ( New York : Public Affairs , 2009 ), 234 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE REVIEWS Amir Alexander, Duel at Dawn...

...Santiago Zabala Piercey Robert , The Uses of the Past from Heidegger to Rorty: Doing Philosophy Historically ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2009 ), 221 pp. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 LITTLE...

...Philip Gossett Paul Eggert, Securing the Past: Conservation in Art, Architecture, and Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 302 pp. Duke University Press 2010 Little Reviews Mark S. Schantz, Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War...

... Solzhenitsyn, Israel J. Yuval, Colin Davis, Dale Kent, Georges Didi-Huberman, Downing Thomas INTRODUCTION: A BRIGHTER PAST A benign, supreme intelligence that transcends yet comprehends the universe in detail and speaks a language that we all...

...Uta Gosmann © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Symposium: Devalued Currency, Part 2 SPACING THE PAST The Mnemotechniques of Ellen Hinsey Uta Gosmann The epigraph to Ellen Hinsey’s collection of poetry Cities...

...Jürgen Habermas; Jeffrey M. Perl In this essay Habermas contends that, until 1989, four phases are discernible in how postwar Germany attempted to come to terms with its “unmasterable past.” Between the end of the war in 1945 and the foundation of two German states in 1949, the first reconstruction...

...Charles Sullivan McDaniel Iain , Adam Ferguson in the Scottish Enlightenment: The Roman Past and Europe's Future . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 276 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... INTRODUCTION: SOME DIFFICULTIES OF EMPIRE— PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE Empire, Joseph Nye remarked recently, “has come out of the closet”—and super- fi cially this appears to be the case. The United States’s deployment of its unpar- alleled military power to enforce...

... than bring to mind what seems the innocence of the past, it is simply that there has never been an Age of Innocence, epitomized for me by those newspaper headlines I read at the breakfast table in August 1944. Having put aside Toytown, I read, while my father's head was in the sports page, the stark...

...Jon Stone [email protected] José Vergara , All Future Plunges to the Past: James Joyce in Russian Literature ( Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press , 2021 ), 254 pp. Copyright © 2024 by Duke University Press 2024 In browsing the contents of this book, my first thought...

...David S. Katz This contribution to part 4 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur” shows how the reputedly radical position that history is not about eternal truths but about the creative construction of a convincing narrative of past events is not an argument...

...Alan Pauls 2006 not for sale Translated by Nick Caistor F I C T I O N A N D P O E T R Y From THE PAST Alan Pauls Translated by Nick Caistor Her writing compulsion was nothing new to him. How often had he...

...John Boardman Scarre Geoffrey and Coningham Robin , eds., Appropriating the Past: Philosophical Perspectives on the Practice of Archaeology . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 353 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... and practices are entirely transformative not only of their futures but also of their pasts. Benjamin argued that a work of art is a set of potentials that may or may not be realized in the vicissitudes of its afterlife. The true significance of works might be said, therefore, to emerge only after some as-yet...

... “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...

... of debt in our lives. It is a question of seeking out shadows that belong specifically to our global financial system, rather than belonging to ways of accounting order, honor, and revenge from a repressed past. If financial institutions, governments, businesses, and individuals were all exposed to high...

... traditional, interested in supporting and encouraging the humanities, and “stuck in the historical past.” Cole reports that where Terman saw opportunities in the future, Barzun saw threats. Cole's book leaves many questions unanswered. In universities increasingly funded externally, what stance should...

... lessons in cause and effect. Still, it makes sense, as with this essay, that we look back on such financial follies of the past, as epitomized by Holland's tulipmania, and take comfort in finding that our follies are just enough different from historical ones to at least claim them as our very own...

...Barbara Herrnstein Smith In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Comparative Relativisim,” Smith argues that relativism is a chimera, half straw man, half red herring. Over the past century, she shows, objections to the supposed position so named have typically involved either...