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...Mikhail Epstein Li tt le R ev ie w s 4 3 3Eleonory Gilburd, To See Paris and Die: The Soviet Lives of Western Culture (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018), 480 pp. Geography can be real or fictional. There exist detailed atlases of imaginary realms. Gilburd s study maps an imaginary...

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... critic, applying an artillery of theoreti- cal neither-nors to recent chapters in the ongoing story of human barbarism. Someone else might one day draw a good argument from these musings, espe- cially those on “sovereignty,” but there is too much pontificating to see...

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... of manufacturing history that books contain. He has accordingly included a the to someattention requires broader topicalso his that herecognizes books, like. looks evidence relevant the what see ofbooks) use this about they well,part serve their function readersletting (who may never have...

... of vital flow to which a complex of descriptive terms including slippery and deep—but not rhythmic—could be applied. Rather than just better or worse sci- COMMON KNOWLEDGE COMMON ence, Kuriyama sees in these distinctions a clue to the changeable aesthetics and lived...

... evidence in reading—failed, in other words, to see that primary sources are not simply words, but words attached to physical objects made and used at particular past times. (Baker is not, by the way, saying that reproductions should not be made...

... hermeneutics. Zammito traces the relationship between the two men and places them in the “Early Enlightenment” world sur- rounding them, with great skill and precision, and sees the origins of modern anthropology in the formulations, reformulations, and counterreformulations that finally drove them...

... critic, applying an artillery of theoreti- cal neither-nors to recent chapters in the ongoing story of human barbarism. Someone else might one day draw a good argument from these musings, espe- cially those on “sovereignty,” but there is too much pontificating to see...

...Jan Zwicky In this essay, part of a cluster of pieces on her concept of “lyric philosophy,” the author explores connections between imagination, understood as the capacity to think in images, and what Wittgenstein called “seeing-as.” In seeing-as, we focus on what Wittgenstein identifies as inner...

... and to comment on other medieval theories about and incidents of inexplicable or miraculous seeing on the part of the “spiritually gifted.” Her conclusion is that students who ask what such people do see must be told that they have indeed seen what they have claimed to see, just “as I saw The Woman...

... nonhuman subjectivities enables them to see other species as they see themselves—namely, as humans partaking in human culture. Perspectivism influences both the practices that Amerindian peoples adopt toward nonhuman species and their attitudes toward other human groups, especially in the context...

... meaning, and (e) the larger problem of what Simone Weil called “enslavement to one's own method.” What Jan Zwicky urges, and philosophically as well as poetically works toward, is, in Wittgenstein's terms, “a changed way of seeing,” though in her work the focus is specifically on a changed way of seeing...

... 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...

... sees as defining the “collective games” of science. Brown invokes the behavioral approach to experimental psychology of the early to mid-twentieth century to contextualize Stengers's treatment of continuous comparison conducted by scientists around “matters of concern.” Her use of the metaphor...

...Lesley Chamberlain This guest column marks the tenth anniversary of the death of Jacques Derrida. The journal in which it appears, Common Knowledge , was not especially receptive to deconstruction during Derrida's lifetime, but Lesley Chamberlain in retrospect sees reasons to reconsider his role...

... and otherwise—ought to see themselves in much the same way. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 play games simulation urban planning UGS COLUMNS PLAY AND GAMES Advice for Urban Gaming Simulators Ermanno...

... in the journal for almost twenty years, he explains that the editors' assumption has been that any authentic case for the less adamant modes of thinking, or the less focused ways of seeing, needs to be unenthusiastic and carefully ramified. To establish the distinction between overenthused and unemphatic...

... Spain, it analyzes polemical texts of diverse natures and from different centuries to see how their authors, by attacking both dogmatic and legal opinion, aimed to harden the amorphous boundaries between groups. On the Christian side, polemicists argued for the restriction of the rights of Muslims...