...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...

...Miguel Tamen Lamb Jonathan , The Things Things Say ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2011 ), 320 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Pierre Bouretz, D’un ton guerrier en...

...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...

...Rowan Williams; Jeffrey M. Perl Wortley John , The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 652 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Nina Pelikan Straus © 2006 by Duke University Press 2006 C O L U M N S FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO AL-QAEDA What Fiction Says to Social Science Nina Pelikan Straus Here, for once, the line between writing...

...Rowan Williams Wortley John , The Anonymous Sayings of the Desert Fathers: A Select Edition and Complete English Translation . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 652 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 LITTLE REVIEWS John Wortley...

... , a project that Nezval says originated originated says Nezval that aproject 1935...

... say what I can say aboutsay no whatIcan say ), Ican seem) both...

...Liesl Yamaguchi Abstract As a follow‐up to the Common Knowledge symposium “Apology for Quietism” (15:1 to 16:3), this guest column asks what it means to say nothing. Strictly speaking, to “say nothing” is a contradiction in terms (unless, of course, one says “Nothing,” which is another thing...

...-ended because the present is, and meanwhile, the meaning of history is in our hands to change. Since we have that power, Eagleton suggests that we recycle figures of the past as characters in a comedy rather than tragedy. Still, it is never possible to say which figures of the past and which works...

...A. W. Price In one sense of the term current among analytical philosophers, the quietist _lacks skeptical doubts about the metaphysical or epistemological status of ethical judgments as a class of judgment. He may still have doubts about, say, the current state of morality. There are criteria...

....” Schopenhauer does indeed say much the same thing as Tolstoy says in his epilogue and elsewhere about history and the will. Each of these authors argues that history is not progressing and that it is not governed by the actions of individual political or military leaders alone, but by the infinitely many...

... is a collage of diverse original sources—Randall’s poetry and memories, Cavell’s memoir Little Did I Know , and relevant passages in Wittgenstein and Augustine—that involve the interplay of events in Cavell’s personal life with the dissertation that in time became his first book, Must We Mean What We Say...

... Lear have reached similar conclusions, using comparable means, at roughly the same time, in a context as much literary as psychoanalytic. Freud himself described the mind in literary (which is to say, dramatic) terms, but whereas he understood the human psychic drama as Oedipal and thus tragic...

...Nicholas Gaskill Abstract As the leading contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?,” this essay asks why Rorty was so often taken to be saying things that he claimed he was not. The argument is that Rorty's rhetorical approach and jargon engendered...

... to relativize what different peoples—say, Western academics and Amerindian shamans—compare things “for.” Jensen concludes that what is compared and relativized in this symposium are the methods of comparison and relativization themselves. He ventures that the contributors all hope that treating these terms...

... is entailed in relativizing one scholar's work through that of another. The author says that her “hunch” is that in both cases the analyst might wish to have the liberty of discerning—in the same breath—the multiplicities of what John Law and Annemarie Mol call perspectivalism (their very general alternative...

... of the dancer as a danced possibility. That is to say, some form of cognitive mapping takes the place of the idea of notation and takes root in the dancer's mind and body (if not on paper). Literal notation is not just secondary but tertiary with respect to this sense of scoring, which appears to preexist...

... (for example, the concept of the “partible person”), her work is mainly descriptive and centered on Melanesia. She makes no objection to discussing generally applicable principles, or to finding unity in diversity—saying only that she is somewhat wary of them and, instead, mainly reports her findings about...

... that was inclusive, rather than exclusive, and that understood all boundaries and identities as fluid or blurry, rather than as fixed and immutable. Or one might say that Husain strove to project what Ashis Nandy has called “Indian-style secularism,” celebrating creation, humanity, and beauty in the multiple...