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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (3): 452–453.
Published: 01 August 2018
...Oren Harman Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Sober Elliot , Ockham’s Razors: A User’s Manual ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 ), 314 pp. ...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (1): 164–170.
Published: 01 January 2013
... treated Tiepolo's work as unhealthy, lightweight, and bizarre, but this review supports Calasso's claim that his work is actually sober and moving. The review concludes that there are artists whom the narrow sensibility of standard art historians will never be able to accommodate, Tiepolo being only one...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 110.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... and presentist archival, and conceptual whimsical, and sober both are arguments its and professorial, and personal jargonistic, and painterly methodical, and lofty both is lessness, only prose, its tonalities: ofa book contradictory is This Language andTruth inPost-­ Stefania Tutino...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 159.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the Reformation is invoked with infuriating frequency as a precedent for Brexit in the British press. The alleged parallels are largely optical illusions. To some of those living through the final act of the current unfolding drama, however, Marshall s book will be a sobering reminder that history has a habit...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 348–354.
Published: 01 April 2012
... Common Knowledge 350   believer” true sober. grow Tolstoyanupand But“Party grow...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 158–159.
Published: 01 January 2020
... will be a sobering reminder that history has a habit of repeating itself. It may also prove prophetic of the uncertain future that surely lies ahead. Alexandra Walsham doi 10.1215/0961754X-7899808 Elizabeth Morrison and Zrinka Stahuljak, The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies: Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval...
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 169–170.
Published: 01 January 2018
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (1): 135–136.
Published: 01 January 2016
...- unpopular. envied him made have could up. Nothing country the sober to try to was decision disastrous Gorbachev’smost Brezhnev- eight colorful provides author the point, this (DTs fever’ of‘white making grip collective After the in was “our Rodina era monopoly, Brezhnev the vodka...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 13–28.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., but of the whole. On coming home, sober, recovered from my cold, I set to work. I tried to strike the stylized voice. I took a run at it once, twice, three times. It would not go. I searched in vain for a handle...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (2): 318–340.
Published: 01 April 2003
... anti-Christian and corresponds to his description of God as an 321 “illeitbeyond being, an absence that leaves its trace rather than an incarnated presence.) But ethics is not, for Levinas, a drama. He likens ethics to a process of sobering up: the face...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 172–175.
Published: 01 January 2020
... a chaos of elements, a chemical soup, Peirce s powder of feelings (letter to Ladd- Franklin, 1891). To illustrate his sobering account of aesthetic practice, Gombrich reproduced a cartoon show- ing a painter at his easel, rendering the head of an ape in three stages of comple- tion. At the third stage...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 1–6.
Published: 01 January 2002
... a new life. It has not been the argument of sober theorists that “nothing is true” or that “anything goes.” What’s been claimed, first, is that being right is not such a big deal—and second, that (as Susan Sontag put it last year from a podium in Jerusalem) “something else is always going...
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Common Knowledge (2008) 14 (1): 10–15.
Published: 01 January 2008
... they made to traditional scholarship, she conducted her labors without melo- drama or resentment. In her own eyes, her books, such as Within the Plantation Household, were, at a metascholarly level, sober corrections of previous failures in American historiography...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (2): 179–185.
Published: 01 April 2003
..., and an aesthetic of simulation and dissimulation, and evidently these systems can be made compatible with one another much more readily than with sober rea- CK 9.2-01 Nádas 3/14/03 10:37 AM Page 184 son. Their politics is national and great-power selfishness raised...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 490–505.
Published: 01 August 2013
... , traced yoga’s origin to between 2600 yoga’sbetween to , traced origin A more sober reading of the historical record suggests that the types of types the that recordsuggests historical...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 275–282.
Published: 01 April 2013
... Egyptian Sudan. In an ostensibly sober Foreign Office Foreignsober Office ostensibly an In Sudan. ­Egyptian...
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 545–553.
Published: 01 September 2015
... to get to the bottom of why they are so much triter. It may be simply that I am living in a more sober world, which has no metaphysics or (to do justice to the demands of this world, let me put it this way:) no need for metaphysics. There is no longer a riddle, just simple material and intellectual...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (2): 251–279.
Published: 01 May 2023
..., Development and Heredity , 116 . 11. See Weismann, Germ-Plasm . 10. Lamarck, Zoological Philosophy , 6, 69 . 9. Fortuitous or random , in this context, refers to random genetic drift. On the role of chance in theories of evolution, see Sober, Nature of Selection , chap. 4...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 331–342.
Published: 01 September 2022
... of whatever task they set themselves? One thing is certain: we find no trace there of Mediterranean breeziness or Balkan bedlam. The final decision on all these issues was taken seventy-two years ago, not too far from Budapest, on the shores of the Wannsee in Berlin, in a remarkably sober, mundane, level...
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Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (1): 93–104.
Published: 01 January 2004
...- istically more natural, sober, self-evident—like Hegel’s world, to which Dosto- evsky returned from Siberia. Free from magic, manipulable by technology, pal- pable, and in the end limited neither by impossibility nor divinity but only by the possible, the reasonable...