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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 424–438.
Published: 01 August 2010
... Press 2010 Symposium: Apology for Quietism, Part 6 IN THE QUIET OF THE MONASTERY Buddhist Controversies over Quietism Bernard Faure The expression “Buddhist quietism” is a familiar one. At first glance, it seems anachronistic...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 578.
Published: 01 August 2013
...Clark Davis Quashie Kevin , The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture ( New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press , 2012 ), 204 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 198–205.
Published: 01 May 2022
... as a quiet celebration of conversational practices associated with weakness, redefining the genre of the “love story” along the way. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Tove Jansson Finland Swedish Finnish literature silence “Why did you leave so much space...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 August 2010
... concerned “sage knowledge,” defined as foresight into the development of situations. The sagacious knower sees the disposition of things in an early, incipient form and knows how to intervene with nearly effortless and undetectable (quiet) effectiveness. Whatever the circumstance, the sage handles...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 394–410.
Published: 01 April 2011
.... By examining T. S. Eliot's complaint against time in “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” and engaging theoretical critiques of the desire to be modern, this essay argues that modernism explored alternatives to the static, quieted present, and that contemporary American time-travel narratives continue...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 105–119.
Published: 01 January 2016
..., collected by Boas and made famous by Lévi-Strauss; the story of Sakuntala, from a Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata ; and Remarque's war novel of 1929, All Quiet on the Western Front . In the first case, no resolution of the conflicts comprising the narrative is required, because in mythical thinking...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 66–78.
Published: 01 January 2010
... advocates fatalism and escapism, both of which could be seen as tenets of (anti-)Catholic Quietism, of which Fénelon is cited as a practitioner. A close reading shows that Jünger's protagonists value their carefree and quiet lives before the story's wars and only join the militant Mauretanian order...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 39–58.
Published: 01 January 2009
..., transforming Emersonian waiting into Bartleby's catatonic stillness. Emerson's waiting for inspiration becomes the copyist's quiet demand that his employer wait with him rather than use charitable actions to free himself from the burden Bartleby imposes. Bartleby obstructs the lawyer's ideas of improvement...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 412–437.
Published: 01 August 2009
...  quietism not go hand in hand. Whether we speak of them narrowly or broadly. narrowly of them we speak Whether hand. in not hand go quietism M: creation.” own ofhis tradition honourable and ancient an heir to ism,”him “is apower-play,dialogue the byWildemaking aggrandizing quiet...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 244–245.
Published: 01 May 2023
... in the deserts of Israel and North America and made available in the book through barcodes that can be scanned), Haines-Eitzen argues that hearing the nuances of desert sounds requires a “deep listening” founded on inner quietness, and she evokes this state through tales of the Desert Fathers, who spent decades...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 276–284.
Published: 01 April 2010
... resolveworked onthe mytension last essay of caring and not-caring, of moving neverand condoned sitting-still.or conspired Butwith evil. I haveI never beenhave able, fornever myself, to quiet “hip by mean could Nussbaum wondersit?One whatMartha simulate evenor is used ally wordtradition...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 520–526.
Published: 01 August 2003
... Copyright 2003 by Duke University Press 520 Quiet to witness quiet to rise 521 Put your hand through harsher months Albedo Albedo of solitude...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (2): 223–232.
Published: 01 April 2010
....” the quietism teach like I can scholarship but doing bravado.scholar A remind you of what you said. You said: “The opposite of cowardice is not courage, duck, I have read (if no one else did) what you wrote on Here,martyrdom. let me More’s He days. on these was your quiet mind enough early in mid...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 146–150.
Published: 01 January 2008
... Common Knowledge 148 she would him, trusted not be foolish towholly,him trust or at least could think herself She assured days. past these Heso quiet was persisted. quietness a fragile leaned her head onto WarAdam’s chest, and he cooed kind words. For a moment, elation. the mass...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 439–456.
Published: 01 August 2010
... A )   —  ­ full full days or even weeks of constant, quiet meditation. This approach...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 532–551.
Published: 01 August 2010
... Habitable World Described World Habitable John of Trusler’s volumes twenty be to were what of fifth and fourth the year, same the In century. eighteenth of the year eventful most quiet, least Selborne of Antiquities The closest thing I know to quietism narrativized and History...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (2): 423–425.
Published: 01 April 2011
... and the editor of editor the and And Quiet Flows Flows Quiet...
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Common Knowledge (2007) 13 (1): 113–130.
Published: 01 January 2007
... was the sort of whom it is later said in the papers, “He was a quiet man who kept to himself.” Death happened to him as it always does: he was alive and then suddenly one day he was dead, but his house still looked the same nonetheless, with the green window boxes and the overbright pink and green trim...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 181–189.
Published: 01 May 2016
..., Ruhe : also quietness...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 48–65.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., But is us, is he really asking us to be quiet that he is talking about? Or is he actually talking about about talking actually he is Or about? talking is he that truth...