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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 510–511.
Published: 01 September 2015
...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...
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 409–410.
Published: 01 April 2019
...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 ...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 168–169.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Belle Randall C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 6 8 New Selected Poems of Thom Gunn, ed. Clive Wilmer (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018), 336 pp. Selected Poems of Thom Gunn, ed. August Kleinzahler (London: Faber and Faber, 2009), 128 pp. As the title of the American edition, New Selected...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 555.
Published: 01 August 2010
...Belle Randall Samuel Menashe, New and Selected Poems , ed. Christopher Ricks (Northumberland, U.K.: Bloodaxe, 2009), 202 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS
Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion
(Philadelphia...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 569–581.
Published: 01 August 2012
... © 2009 by Northwestern University Press 2009 not for sale Poetry
EWA LIPSKA:
A SELECTION OF POEMS
Translated by Robin Davidson and Ewa Elz˙bieta Nowakowska
From 1999
The Smells of Evil
Let them...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 149–151.
Published: 01 January 2020
...William M. Chace Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling , ed. Kirsch Adam ( New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux , 2018 ), 448 pp. Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Li tt le R ev ie w s 1 4 9Life in Culture: Selected Letters of Lionel Trilling, ed. Adam...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 182–193.
Published: 01 May 2024
... she terms “lottocracy.” Gastil's response argues (1) that random selection in politics can take many forms, none of which need resemble a lottocracy; (2) that a randomly selected body with some measure of influence or authority can complement electoral democracy without replacing it; (3...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 206–223.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Terrill G. Bouricius Abstract Part 1 of this article, which appeared in the first installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” presented reasons why elections are an inappropriate method for selecting representatives in a democracy. Part 2, published in the symposium's second...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 224–241.
Published: 01 May 2022
... would be better served by sortition — selection by lottery — than by elections when forming its representative bodies and selecting its leaders. [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 democracy elections sortition political psychology “rational ignorance...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 193–205.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Paul Demont Abstract In consonance with the view of Aristotle in book 4 of the Politics , Montesquieu wrote that “selection by lot is in the nature of democracy; election by choice is in the nature of aristocracy.” Although the drawing of lots was a marker of classical Athenian democracy, Socrates...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 324–341.
Published: 01 September 2023
... fortunate has raised some troubling questions about democracy itself. Despite its small size, classical Athens offers valuable guidance for tempering current difficulties in both the United States and elsewhere by adopting and adapting the selection of some officials by sortition, direct election by popular...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 173–186.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., it is now (except for the randomly selected jury) a largely discontinued practice. While a good deal is known about when and where this procedure was used, there is little surviving documentation of exactly why it was used and of what it was thought to contribute to the political systems in which...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (3): 317–323.
Published: 01 September 2023
... politicians from the process of selecting judges. “There can never be too much judicial interference,” he writes, “in what politicians regard as their domain.” The author reached this conclusion during attempts by the newly elected Israeli government, in the spring of 2023, to make itself absolute...
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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 (2008) 14 (1): 105–123.
Published: 01 January 2008
..., and Mendelssohn). Many of the “other” composers came from Italy, France, or Britain and became famous for opera selections and songs, some termed “popular,” and a substantial number of their pieces were performed throughout the nineteenth century. The present-day narrative of music history has canonic blind spots...
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (2): 296–336.
Published: 01 April 2014
... historiography, despite all claims to the contrary, is possible and valuable. In this monograph-length article, the texts of selected documents in the Adair Family Collection (Suffolk Record Office, Lowestoft Branch, call number 741) are set forth, often verbatim, and, though minutely contextualized...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 212–229.
Published: 01 April 2020
...Anders Blok This guest column asks how Bruno Latour has contributed to any present and future refiguring of relations between the sciences and the humanities. To answer the question, it traces three select and shifting figures of knowledge by means of which Latour himself has been charting his...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (2): 242–260.
Published: 01 May 2022
..., and this article seeks to assess those changes in the context of three ideal types that advocate the use of randomly selected minipublics. This article analyzes, each in turn, the attraction of sortition for supporters and theorists of deliberative democracy, antipolitical democracy, and radical democracy...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 56–89.
Published: 01 January 2018
... of “one mind” as a hermeneutical principle, Thoreau sought to overcome temporal and spatial distance in his reading and to integrate ideas and practices of these Hindu texts from ancient India selectively within his own life. Listening to the voices of Indic sages reinforced Thoreau’s own inclinations...
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Common Knowledge (2024) 30 (2): 226–278.
Published: 01 May 2024
... of human self‐reflection that is at the core of philosophy and of culture as a recipe for the species’ survival. Instead of answering the question “What is man?” Blumenberg proposes here a minimalist anthropology that seeks to answer a different question: “How is man possible?” The chapters selected...
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