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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 211–219.
Published: 01 May 2016
...Gary Saul Morson Despite their professed multiculturalism, educated Americans find it hard to imagine that others do not share their liberal values. Does not everyone love their children and want peace? The author of the article, a Tolstoy scholar and student of Russian culture, discusses topics...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 112.
Published: 01 January 2015
...Richard Jenkyns Richardson Edmund , Classical Victorians: Scholars, Scoundrels, and Generals in Pursuit of Antiquity . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2013 ), 242 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (3): 485–517.
Published: 01 August 2004
...Jeffrey J. Kripal Duke University Press 2004 Symposium: Talking Peace with Gods, Part 1
COMPARATIVE MYSTICS
Scholars as Gnostic Diplomats
Jeffrey J. Kripal
It is not difficult to see why Ulrich Beck’s cosmopolitan viewpoint would inspire...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 155–156.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., is unnecessary, and the authors but for “the layperson,” there is a whiff of the schoolroom. Some of the summary ence.Despite authors athe that preface not write claiming for “fellow scholars” leads and this to the question of Christianity, tradition with audi Judaism than long the with morefully...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 546–547.
Published: 01 September 2017
...H. R. Woudhuysen Ricketts Rita , Scholars, Poets, and Radicals: Discovering Forgotten Lives in the Blackwell Collections . ( Oxford : Bodleian Library , 2015 ), 320 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 437.
Published: 01 August 2018
...John Boardman Higbie Carolyn , Collectors, Scholars, and Forgers in the Ancient World ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 ), 276 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (2): 256–279.
Published: 01 April 2018
...John Tolan Some of the nineteenth century’s foremost scholars of the Qur’an and hadiths were German and Hungarian Jews. For many of them, their scholarly interest in Islam was entangled with their contemporary concerns about movements of reform and emancipation in European Jewry and about...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 232–253.
Published: 01 April 2017
...Humberto Garcia A contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, this article examines the travelogue of Mirza Abu Taleb ibn Muhammed Isfahani (1752–1805), the Muslim Indo-Persian scholar, poet, and Lucknow nobleman who sympathized with the Irish during his travels to England...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (1): 40–61.
Published: 01 January 2024
... coedited volume Gender and Religion (1986), the first of its kind, has figured importantly in the development of the field many call comparative religion. Here Bynum's impact on selected scholars of Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh religion — as well as of non‐Western Christianity — is assessed...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 373–378.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Christophe Fricker; Timothy J. Senior This guest column in Common Knowledge is one of three published under the heading “Economy and Humanity.” The authors argue that collaborative research projects carried out by scholars in the arts and humanities in cooperation with commercial enterprises...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 87–103.
Published: 01 January 2011
... and multiplicities, and the other on a world of not-quite repetitions. The article asks if the binary is not essential to the epistemic work that Western (Euro-American) scholars might want to do, since we forever reinvent the divide between the modern and the post-/pre-modern. Strathern assumes the anthropologist's...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 267–291.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of Castile. This case thus reveals the existence of a hybrid form of Catholic Muslim religiosity, but only to scholars who do what is required to de differentiate — that is, to blur — the categories of identity and orthodoxy that were established by the Inquisition. Scholars have for too long allowed...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 292–311.
Published: 01 April 2012
..., and claims. In some cases, the identification was made by the “new historians” themselves. While there is considerable bad blood between post-Zionist scholars and those, inside and outside the academy, who defend one or another version of the Zionist narrative, it needs to be demonstrated that postmodernism...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 April 2013
...” German Orientalists who concocted a Turco-German “jihad” against the Entente Powers in World War I — accompanied by a simultaneous plan to unleash Zionism to destroy tsarist Russia — may not have been scholars of the highest caliber, which helps explain how they could tolerate a fuzzy phrase like...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 399–410.
Published: 01 August 2013
... in the 1970s and confirmed Frank in his counterfocus on the importance of historical context, not only in criticism but also in literary creation. Above all, the interview shows how a scholar can overcome institutional pressures and the temptations of careerism by shrugging them off and concentrating attention...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 337–362.
Published: 01 April 2014
... are inseparable from questions of theory and method. This essay engages some recent experimental, postcritical responses as formulated by scholars in the fields of anthropology and STS (science, technology, and society). Following decades of reflexive debates and changing institutional and disciplinary...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 498–542.
Published: 01 August 2018
..., Velimir Khlebnikov, Osip Mandelstam, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Boris Pasternak. This article has long been a favorite among scholars of early twentieth-century Russian letters. “Interlude” offers a historical snapshot, wherein subsequently acknowledged “classics” like Akhmatova or Mayakovsky are examined...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 79–94.
Published: 01 January 2010
... a tragic writer, a radical realist who refused to yield to the temptations of political life. Veblen's quietism also helps to explain the hesitant, often unwelcome reception more ideologically minded scholars have given to his work. Attributing Veblen's quietism to timidity or confusion, they have...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 249–254.
Published: 01 April 2012
...Christopher P. Jones The subject of “the last pagans” or “the end of paganism” in the Greco-Roman world has interested scholars for over a century but begs the question “What is paganism?” Is the term usable as a tool of analysis? It originates from the Latin paganus , meaning “villager,” “rustic...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 90–125.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of French literary culture. Part 3 treats the way in which certain American critics of the 1980s and 1990s, primarily the scholars of Russian literature Caryl Emerson and Gary Saul Morson, deployed their translations and studies of Mikhail Bakhtin’s literary theory to undercut the work of French...
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