...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

... 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...

... 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...

... Vedāntavāglīś, exposed elements of ambiguity in the original work that expanded the possibilities for the engagement of yoga with Western discourses, while at the same time legitimating the Sanskritic past as a resource for addressing new realities. In the process, Kālīvar's translation helped enable...

... of Rochester in the mid-1970s, have been lasting impressions. The seminar introduced patterns of thought and behavior that proved consistent over the years, despite Fox-Genovese's several shifts in the past three decades—from Marxist to non-Marxist, historian of France to historian of antebellum Southern women...

... of art history's unfolding as a process of remembrance (or Mnemosyne ). Yet Warburg himself did not write on architecture. The topic has also largely vanished from the pages of the Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes , though in the past the journal has been the venue for influential...

... persuaded by the popular and largely unexamined goal of efficiency; and second, that the Library indeed requires its own space but that that space must now be reconceived. In line with Aby Warburg's belief that the past should engage the present by expanding and refreshing it, the Warburg Institute...

... Knowledge began as an enterprise of “Left Kuhnian” or “Left Wittgensteinian” contextualists, hoping to get beyond the problem known as “incommensurability,” it has become over the past quarter-century a venue in which the commensuration of paradigms and worldviews, even religions and cultures...