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... have become redundant in a world that has moved on from a crude clash of revolution versus reaction. Duke University Press 2009 Symposium: Apology for Quietism, Part 2 Quietism AND POLEMIC A Dialectical Story Lesley Chamberlain To be called...

...Kirsten Schultz Abruzzo Margaret , Polemical Pain: Slavery, Cruelty, and the Rise of Humanitarianism ( Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2011 ), 330 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Gerard Wiegers This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” argues, on the basis of recent research, that religious polemic is a phenomenon closely associated only with monotheist traditions. Focusing on religious polemics in medieval and early modern Islamic and Christian...

...Roi Tartakovsky [email protected] Kenneth Goldsmith , Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb ( New York : Columbia University Press , 2020 ), 318 pp. Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 A few years ago, I found myself...

...Glenn Holland Speaking freely is considered an essential component of academic freedom and freedom of inquiry. Unfortunately, historically as well as currently, the right to speak freely has often resulted in polemics and disputes between scholars. But the entire purpose of frankness in speech...

... that the editors of the journal hoped to see raised. One of those calls came from me: I proposed a series of articles dealing with aspects of the large area that comprises (as I put it then) “dissent, disagreement, controversy, polemic,” and related concepts and practices...

... of the journal hoped to see raised. One of those calls came from me: I proposed a series of articles dealing with aspects of the large area that comprises (as I put it then) “dissent, disagreement, controversy, polemic,” and related concepts and practices. The effort...

... Nersessian) ends with a section titled Against Polemic, but the section title is a decoy. Kramnick has produced a thoroughly polemical book. His targets are essentially two: the notion of a consilience of disciplines namely, that there is a groundwork of explanation common to all forms of inquiry...

...   “innovative” is one group polemics: tion Reforma in originating also arelatedtrope, continues Duffy enough.too, So, not Evangelical him thought contemporaries a“Catholic,”some ofbeen his though never have could Cranmer Thomas thus, VIII; word) Henry (Duffy’s “tyrant...

...   “innovative” is one group polemics: tion Reforma in originating also arelatedtrope, continues Duffy enough.too, So, not Evangelical him thought contemporaries a“Catholic,”some ofbeen his though never have could Cranmer Thomas thus, VIII; word) Henry (Duffy’s “tyrant...

... of fact (I am using Bruno Latour’s terminology here) but as a matter of concern. But comparison may be a matter for many kinds of concern. The concern that gathers around those of us who are haunted by the polemical opposition of relativism and uni...

... he wrote polemically, in a letter to Abbot Suger, against what he took to be materialist developments in church architecture, he referred to a lavishly decorated church as a synagogue of Satan. 25 Western medieval Christendom affords many examples of the motifs of ritual murder, host desecration...

... the academy may use the word academic to mean moot, which is to say, pointless or irrelevant. As in every polemical exchange, differences are stressed to mobilize allies against a stigmatized opponent: this is ideology in action, an affirmation of dis- tance without seeking to advance our...

... modern demonological works. 22 Recent studies have demonstrated that the Dominican inquisitor's preoccupation with women's proclivity toward witchcraft actually went hand in hand with his profound admiration for the late medieval features of embodied female spirituality. In other polemical works...

... rather than [engage in] polemics...

... the next step in this ety- mological history in the extension of the term agonistic from its meaning “per- taining to athletic feats” to its meaning (in the context of rhetorical feats) “polem- ical, combative, striving to overcome in argument” (OED...

... of the polemic. It is not a matter of choosing between psychic unity and psychic diversity, for both evidently capture elements of what we need for a correct understanding, leaving the main problem as that of charting the extent of the manifestations of each. Again the issue is not whether value...

...   the than muchbroader coveredare topics the as misleading, is asense, in title, The scene. contemporary upthe to polemics, medieval of the period the through Qur’an, of the time the since of Islam views Christian and of Christianity views Muslim between the relationship...

... Inventing Polemic: Religion, Print, and Literary Culture in Early Modern England Modern Early in Culture Literary and Print, Religion, Polemic: Inventing...

... good to think with” in Christian devotion, despite Reformation polemics and the early modern querelle des femmes . ...