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The Unasked Question: What Would Bakhtin Say
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 42–60.
Published: 01 January 2004
...Mikhail Epstein Duke University Press 2004 THE UNASKED QUESTION
What Would Bakhtin Say?
Mikhail Epstein
No one has asked, but someone should answer. That Europeans who lived until
recently under communist regimes have...
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The Confucian Notion of Ren : A Response to Daniel Boyarin's Question, “If That's Not Love, What Is It?”
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (3): 299–311.
Published: 01 September 2024
... with the assumption of a universal fixed range of emotions as the foundation of our research and our interpretations simply begs the question that I propose to unbeg: If that's not love, what is it? 1 Boyarin went on, in his article, to examine a passage in the Babylonian Talmud in which he discovered...
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CHINESE COMPARISONS AND QUESTIONABLE ACTS
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 42–47.
Published: 01 January 2011
... creative intellectual acts by Gilles Deleuze fail of their desired effects and yield only “a litter of baby chimeras.” Duke University Press 2011 Symposium: Comparative Relativism
Chinese Comparisons and
Questionable Acts
Barbara Herrnstein Smith...
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What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 549–550.
Published: 01 September 2017
...Randy Malamud Despret Vinciane , What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions? . trans. Buchanan Brett . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2016 ), 249 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner ed. by Edward M. Burns
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 166–167.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Marjorie Perloff C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 6 6 Edward M. Burns, ed., Questioning Minds: The Letters of Guy Davenport and Hugh Kenner, 2 vols. (Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, 2018), 2,016 pp. This monumental edition of the correspondence between two of the great liter- ary critics...
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COMPARISON AS A MATTER OF CONCERN
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 48–63.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Isabelle Stengers The question of universalism and relativism is often taken to be a matter of critical reflexivity. This article attempts to present the question instead as a matter of practical, political, and always-situated concern. The attempt starts from the consideration of modern...
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ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND THE TEMPTATION OF SHARI'A
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 269–315.
Published: 01 April 2009
...Aidan O'Neill The question posed in this article is whether Catholics can fully, unreservedly, and conscientiously carry out their duties as citizens and as holders of their various public offices (legislative, judicial and executive) of the State, in accordance with the laws and constitution...
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Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 76–91.
Published: 01 April 2019
... between conviction and skepticism (or orthodox and unorthodox views) and the question of how best to understand the phenomenon of fundamentally clashing and arguably incommensurable beliefs. These encounters and questions are usefully addressed and illuminated, Smith suggests, by constructivist...
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Comparison as a Matter Of Concern
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 176–191.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Isabelle Stengers; Jeffrey M. Perl The question of universalism versus relativism is often taken to be a matter of critical reflexivity. This article attempts to present the question instead as a matter of practical, political, and always situated concern. The attempt starts from consideration...
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Experiments in Good Faith and Hopefulness: Toward a Postcritical Social Science
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 337–362.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Casper Bruun Jensen In this article, an anthropologist examines the question, asked today in diverse forms by an increasing variety of actors: what is the aim or telos of the social sciences? From within the disciplinary communities of the social sciences themselves, the answers given...
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ENDO/EXO
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 January 2011
... position and an older relativism, a difference that shields the former from the classic “self-refutation charge.” But this controlled asymmetry in turn raises the question of how we are to identify which visions we as anthropologists ought to take seriously and which we ought not to: where, in other words...
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Disquieting Time: Further Reflections on Modernism and Quietism
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 394–410.
Published: 01 April 2011
...Charles M. Tung For much of the twentieth century, the discipline of literary studies has grappled with the question of how its generally sotto voce activity responds to a history that calls loudly for action. This essay treats the question of literature's quietism in relation to the problem...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 1–8.
Published: 01 April 2019
..., is continuously essayed. As he writes: “The question, in other words, is [no longer] whether worldviews are commensurable. The question is whether we should do what it takes—all that it takes—to communicate and reconcile with those we fear. . . . But whoever—let us admit it—takes on the task is going to end up...
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Excellence Is by No Means Enough: Intellectual Philanthropy and the Just University
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 259–270.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Stanley N. Katz; Jeffrey M. Perl This essay asks the question “What would it mean to be a just university?” and answers to that the question may be understood in two ways. One way to understand “just” is procedural, having to do with internal governance and ensuring that a university’s policies...
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Cosmopolitan: A Tale of Identity from Ottoman Alexandria
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 384–400.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Maya Jasanoff; Jeffrey M. Perl Written in an effort “to frame questions of culture and power in different terms” from those of Edward Said, this case study of Ottoman Alexandria before the French invasion in 1798 (identified by Said as the “launchpad of modern Orientalism”) reveals “lines between...
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A Turning-Point in Political Thought
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 292–320.
Published: 01 April 2019
...Isaiah Berlin; Jeffrey M. Perl Berlin discerns three great crises in Western political thought, each challenging one of its three primary tenets. The three tenets are (1) that questions about correct human actions are answerable, whether the answers are yet known or not; (2) that the answers...
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Conquering Love: Failed Xenophilia in Translations
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (3): 407–430.
Published: 01 August 2020
...Lilith Acadia In a contribution to a symposium on xenophilia, this essay — a study of Brian Friel’s 1980 play Translations — raises the question of whether all xenophilia is by nature doomed to fail. Set in Ireland in 1833, the drama centers on the tension arising from a young British lieutenant’s...
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Tokens of Love: Part 2: John Donne and the Indeterminacy of Presence
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 176–251.
Published: 01 May 2021
... in the Eucharist than to dismiss the issue as vexingly trivial in comparison with the question of whether God thinks that each or any of us adequately loves him. For the questions that concern Donne, there are no determinate answers available, and no standard vocabulary. But the poet's alternating acquiescence...
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Humanizing Philosophy: The Quintessence of Rortyism
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 72–85.
Published: 01 January 2023
... this question, as Rorty did throughout his career, with the question of the meaning of human life. On the basis of this association—the association of a seriously, consistently pursued metaphilosophy with a defense of humanity against all comers, including theology and science—Rorty moved methodically through...
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Caroline Bynum and Medieval Art History in America: Perspectives from an Art Historian and Student
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 76–123.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Jacqueline E. Jung Abstract As a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Caroline Walker Bynum across the Disciplines,” this essay stresses Bynum's commitment to the methods and questions of history but also the unparalleled impact of her work on adjacent fields, including and perhaps even...
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