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... REALITY G. E. R. Lloyd Barbara Herrnstein Smith does an excellent job of exposing the polyvalence of “relativism” and of identifying the principal common assumptions concerning such concepts as truth, values, meaning, and reality, to which it is thought to pose a threat. My aim...

... deal of what we call civilized life depends on it.” —Joseph Frank Ian Hacking, Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses 158 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002), 239 pp. The reissue in paper of this delightful volume of four...

...Jeffrey J. Kripal S y m p o s i u m : U n s o c i a l T h o u g h t , U n c o m m o n L i v e s , Pa r t 3 REALITY AGAINST SOCIETY William Blake, Antinomianism, and the American Counterculture Jeffrey J. Kripal His...

...J. M. Coetzee Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions , ed. Kit Kincade (New York: AMS Press, 2007), 573 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, ed...

...J. M. Coetzee; Jeffrey M. Perl Defoe Daniel , An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions , ed. Kincade Kit ( New York : AMS Press , 2007 ), 573 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Gerard Wiegers Lassner Jacob , Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam: Modern Scholarship, Medieval Realities . ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2012 ), 336 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Averil Cameron Jeffreys Michael Lauxtermann Marc D. , eds., The Letters of Psellos: Cultural Networks and Historical Realities ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 ), 480 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 17 1some empirical findings...

... starts from the assumption that practices of ordering depend on the establishment of forms for commensuration, classification, qualification, valuation, and calculation of equivalence that imply reference to realities “out there” and to perceived common goods. A convention (or the element of a “metacode...

... terms empire and nation-state , which increasingly pervade Chinese perceived realities, lack precise Chinese equivalents. Meanwhile, the terms that the Chinese use in referring to the same historical transition, tianli (“Heavenly Principle”) and gongli (“Universal Principle”), are obscure to the Euro...

...Dariusz Gafijczuk This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies” considers how the ultramodernist aesthetics of Central Europe has related to and reacted against the region's political history and cartography. Central Europe has been a rich source of “soluble” realities...

... adversaries are united in the strife that divides them. In the second example, the conflict is between the contested realities, colliding ideologies, and divergent social practices of the priestly and warrior castes; the discourse of the epic illuminates the differences in explicit detail in order to permit...

... of such agreements, but the reality of marital politics was far more complicated. Arranging a marriage could be a statement of enmity by two families toward a third party. Attempts to dissolve or prevent marriages already arranged by one's rivals amounted to viable political tactics. During the twelfth century...

... pluralism as a way out of these unfruitful terminological debates. Each concept sheds light on some aspects of reality while obscuring others. In particular, the often-criticized ambiguity and fuzziness of the term “pagan monotheism” may help us to formulate questions that otherwise would remain marginal...

... academic administrators take toward professors more interested in their disciplines than in their employer? What is the fate of the underfunded humanities? What can be done about the stunning increase in tuition prices? Transfixed by Terman's definition of eminence, Cole ignores these difficult realities...

... sharply defined norms. Thus, such critics evince the same kind of concern about the legitimacy of literary or historical studies as intellectualist philosophers do about the reality of apparent soccer kicks or meaningful speech. Whatever the merit of these concerns, there is no comfort to be had...

... by? How well do the various versions of the idea that have been articulated so far fit the current and emerging reality of the EU? Attention in the article focuses especially on the pan-European movement that emerged after the unprecedented destruction of World War I. Duke University Press 2010...

... by Paul Cézanne and Pieter Bruegel, poems by Wallace Stevens and W. H. Auden. The essay argues that each self-deluding “reality” we construct is only temporary, destined to fall back into the elusive, undifferentiated zone of overlap and ambiguity from which it has emerged. Therefore, the author urges, we...

... inspiration for grappling with these issues in the same apparently odd place: the work of the Polish microbiologist and comparative epistemologist Ludwik Fleck. The first part of this essay explores the role of Fleck's radical constructivism in Smith's analyses of perplexing Anthropocene realities...

... this confusion and undermined his effectiveness as a philosopher and public intellectual. The focus here is on two points: first, on how, in his eagerness to shut down attempts to claim a privileged path to Reality, he gave the impression of dismissing not only hierarchies but also distinctions; and second...

... Vedāntavāglīś, exposed elements of ambiguity in the original work that expanded the possibilities for the engagement of yoga with Western discourses, while at the same time legitimating the Sanskritic past as a resource for addressing new realities. In the process, Kālīvar's translation helped enable...