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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 163–164.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the city itself, this monumental scholarly effort can only be a work in progress. Linda Safran doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899844 Christophe Dejours, Jean- Philippe Deranty, Emmanuel Renault, and Nicholas H. Smith, The Return of Work in Critical Theory: Self, Society, Politics (New York: Columbia University...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 177–197.
Published: 01 May 2022
... for how to conceive science, politics, theory, and environmental relations in the Anthropocene. 39. Chandler, Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene , 16 . 40. Chandler, Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene , 20 . 41. Chandler, Ontopolitics in the Anthropocene , 16 . 42. Chandler...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (2): 236–252.
Published: 01 April 2015
... concept that dictates the diplomatic and domestic policy of modern states. At the same time, secular political theory has moved away from medieval clerical acknowledgment of compatibilities between turbulence and peace, producing temporally bounded categories of peace and war that facilitate damage...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 321–331.
Published: 01 April 2019
... the immediate social and political realities of modernity. liberalism pluralism moral philosophy political theory Copyright © 1992 1992 ...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 January 2010
... frequently avoided coming to grips with his distinctions between theory and pragmatism, science and politics, which lie at the heart of his political refusal. Theory and science push toward reasonable explanations and accounts of things; pragmatic and predatory political actors apply “worldly wisdom...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 7–21.
Published: 01 January 2010
...Mitchell Cohen This article explores the problem of the political responsibilities of intellectuals and philosophers through an appraisal of Michael Walzer's work on the idea of “connected criticism.” The author elaborates the main elements of this theory, shows how it approaches various thinkers...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 January 2009
...Clark Davis In his meditation on Emerson's self-reliance, George Kateb argues that Emerson's entrance into antislavery politics, particularly his calls for collective mobilization, constitutes a “deviation from his theory of self-reliance, not its transformation.” Though Emerson often imagines...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 192–199.
Published: 01 April 2019
... psychoanalysis and literary theory, which “are likely to found the ‘unifying bond’ that secular, political rationality has until now lacked.” Thus, she concludes, “modern thought, which is neither hostile nor indulgent toward religion, may be our one good option as we face, on the one hand, mounting obscurantism...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 45–50.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Albert O. Hirschman; Jeffrey M. Perl In a survey spanning over half a century of his own work, Hirschman, among the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century on political economy, celebrates the ability to undermine one’s own claims and theories. Whereas skepticism toward other people’s...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 230–250.
Published: 01 April 2020
... arguments on topics including theory and method, nonhuman agency and politics, and technical mediation. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 actor-network theory anthropology Bruno Latour disciplinary translations literary studies Common Knowledge 26:2 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-8188844 ©...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 557–568.
Published: 01 August 2012
... frequent reference to the tradition of the Frankfurt School, in order to ironize the Enlightenment, Marxism, and Critical Theory, but also in order to assess the dangers of globalization. The focus of the analysis is Lipska’s volume 1999 , the linchpin of a poetic project that engages centuries of social...
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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 (2014) 20 (2): 235–256.
Published: 01 April 2014
... sense of poetics and ethics (feminist, poststructural, phenomenological) accords generally with Zwicky's lyric philosophy and epistemology of imagination. Roberts's resonance with Zwicky's theory is conflicted by Zwicky's choice to isolate her fragment-method from the larger history of the aleatory...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (3): 532–550.
Published: 01 August 2004
...- able than that the Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge should be a historian of philosophy (given that by “philosophy” is meant for the most part “political theory,” an activity that draws upon philosophy, contributes to it, and approaches its status...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 368–370.
Published: 01 April 2004
... Travelers, Rewriting the Soul, Representing and Intervening, The Tam- ing of Chance, The Emergence of Probability, The Logic of Statistical Inference, and Why Does Lan- guage Matter to Philosophy? James Johnson teaches social and political theory at the University of Rochester. He is working...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 May 2022
... defend sortition just as naturally.” 39 This attitude perhaps explains why the antipolitical imaginary appeals to some whose perspective is managerial as well as to some who defer to Rancière or the anarchist tradition. The latter have developed a theory of democracy centered on political conflict...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 393–395.
Published: 01 September 2023
... intellectual achievements in theology, in preaching and polemic, in literature, and in political theory and history-writing in the context of a plethora of emerging forms of religious and social life: towns, markets, guilds, confraternities, schools, newly consolidated monarchies, and religious orders with new...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 160–162.
Published: 01 January 2022
... (see Political Theory , October 1998). With Waite in the picture, Keum could have leaned into Heidegger's statement: “The ‘doctrine’ of a thinker is what is unsaid in his saying.” Even after parsing Plato's myths with care, we are still not at the “doctrine.” ...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 402–423.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of Political Theory: Rorty and Continental Thought . New York : Columbia University Press , 2018 . Curtis William M. Defending Rorty: Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue . New York : Cambridge University Press , 2015 . Davidson Donald . Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (1): 17–21.
Published: 01 January 2012
... practices the and interpretthem, and constrain that produce that structures the of opin theory a public us trade; transport; technology; ion; law; sociology; and funerals); political theory. and Warburg’s arrangement sketches out marriage, for birth, dancing, position the of women...