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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 181–189.
Published: 01 April 2018
... is difficult but of inestimable value. Our best work is on the margins of sense. This conclusion is elaborated with a look at recent work in “philosophical anthropology” and “anthropological philosophy” associated with the so-called ontological turn in anthropology. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 189.
Published: 01 January 2020
... of the effect of the disease on the nervous system may be a matter of personal preference. Suman Seth doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899928 Michael Jackson, As Wide As The World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology (New York: Columbia University Press, 2016), 272 pp. This remarkable book could have been...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 385–392.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Peter Skafish; Eduardo Viveiros de Castro; Patrice Maniglier; Louis Morelle This introduction to “Anthropological Philosophy: Symposium on an Unanticipated Conceptual Practice” comprises a brief history of attitudes among anthropologists toward the philosophical field of ontology, and attitudes...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 337–362.
Published: 01 April 2014
... are inseparable from questions of theory and method. This essay engages some recent experimental, postcritical responses as formulated by scholars in the fields of anthropology and STS (science, technology, and society). Following decades of reflexive debates and changing institutional and disciplinary...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 431–452.
Published: 01 September 2016
... thinkers like Roberts should be considered proper objects of both anthropological and philosophical study and should be taken seriously for what they can teach us. © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 Jane Roberts New Age religion spirit mediums Gilles Deleuze metaphysics...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 1–12.
Published: 01 January 2011
... to Peter Galison's history of physics, and on to the anthropological, philosophical, and historical examples offered in symposium contributions by Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Marilyn Strathern, and Isabelle Stengers. Comparative relativism is understood by some to imply...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 325–344.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Renato Sztutman This article is a belated contribution to a Common Knowledge symposium on the “unanticipated conceptual practice” of “anthropological philosophy.” The basic argument is that the groundwork for this emerging approach, associated foremost with Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's book...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 373–384.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Nicolas Langlitz Based on anthropological fieldwork on the revival of hallucinogen research as well as on the epistemic culture of neurophilosophy, this Common Knowledge guest column examines two very different philosophical engagements with psychedelic drugs. In Thomas Metzinger's evidence-based...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 453–465.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the of Existence of Modes into Inquiry An (in moderns ofthe anthropology Latour’s philosophical (Alresford, (Alresford, Object Quadruple The Harman, Graham...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 165.
Published: 01 January 2020
... and philosophical anthropologies, aided by work in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Both Taylor and MacIntyre insisted on the irreducibility of interpretation, evaluation, normativity, and meaning in any investigation of social activity, both in terms of the human subjects being studied and the explanations...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 188–189.
Published: 01 January 2020
... actually requires retrospective diagnoses or contempo- rary scientific accounts of the effect of the disease on the nervous system may be a matter of personal preference. Suman Seth doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899928 Michael Jackson, As Wide As The World Is Wise: Reinventing Philosophical Anthropology (New...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 169–171.
Published: 01 January 2020
... where Girard claimed authority argue that the theoretical scaffolding he constructed cannot bear the weight imposed upon it. He regarded his philosophical anthropology as a science, but, as his critics observe, he never allowed any instance of mimetic desire not leading to rivalry and violence...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 393–414.
Published: 01 September 2016
... the and physics to left were always which questions, ontological toward sciences human ofthe part onthe orshyness ofcowardice asort was there that lectures, those in Iargued, So enterprise. philosophical ofthis arm empirical an pline, disci Kantian avery as anthropology Isaw...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 415–430.
Published: 01 September 2016
..., then structuralism falls (as Vincent Descombes remarked) under Wittgenstein's objections to treating rules as causes. What this article shows, however, is that this reading of structuralism is misguided. The necessity and justification of introducing structural methods, first in linguistics and then in anthropology...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 131–132.
Published: 01 January 2016
... the in Africa North here)lated in were produced that deploy perspectivism as Western philosophers deploy concepts; if Westerndeployif concepts; Western as philosophers deploy perspectivism deCastro’s Amerindians Viveiros imagination. theoretical the to recourse by only known be could of view...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 212–229.
Published: 01 April 2020
... matters still more complicated by suggesting that it is philosophy, not anthropology, to which Serres owes his freedom of movement (96). The philosopher, Latour writes, in a poetic mode, thrives on the varieties of the forest, preparing the ground for new more robust possibilities (96...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (2-3): 531–535.
Published: 01 August 2007
...- tianity and Judaism. Peter Burke’s writings include The Historical Anthropology of Early Modern Italy, Italian Renaissance Culture and Society, The Fabrication of Louis XIV, Varieties of Cultural History, The French Historical Revolution, History and Social Theory, Popular Culture in Early Modern...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 132–133.
Published: 01 January 2016
...   itself thought decolonize to   anthropologies as practices knowledge these Yet recognize to practices. edge knowl ofindigenous styles to openness its in offorce Western anthropology motor the bare lay they perspectivally, itself relation that perceive anthropologists...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 582–584.
Published: 01 August 2012
... received the Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society, and “Anna Bolena” and the Maturity of Gaetano Donizetti. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, he has served as president of both...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 165–169.
Published: 01 January 2016
... 2016 Notes on Contributors Barry Allen’s books include Vanishing into Things: Knowledge in Chinese Tradition; Striking Beauty: A Philosophical Look at the Asian Martial Arts; Knowledge and Civilization; Artifice and Design...