....” This article concludes by asking and in part answering what the world looks like, what sort of human cognition and activity is most appropriate, in the absence of clear purposes, definite knowledge, and unambiguous facts. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013...

...Miguel Tamen Duke University Press 2005 ARTICLES: Reading and Writing the Self THE SORT OF PERSON WE ALL ARE Miguel Tamen The sort of person we are is something that is ultimately not up to any of us to decide. Should it be so, we...

...G. Thomas Tanselle Dane Joseph A. , Out of Sorts: On Typography and Print Culture ( Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2011 ), 254 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS T. J...

...Wayne Andersen This review essay emphasizes the distinction between academic art history, based ultimately on the model of scientific research, and the sort that Roberto Calasso practices in his 2009 study Tiepolo in Pink . It is difficult to locate the book's genre, and the reviewer rejects...

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... – 1988) mounted Zionist arguments of a sort that we now regard as poststructuralist or postmodern. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 2 “PRE-POSTMODERN”­ Four Jewish Nationalist Thinkers of the Last Century Avinoam Rosenak...

...Richard Shiff This article, a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” documents how some modern artists and critics have argued against any sort of verbal thinking about art. Beyond describing works of visual art and pronouncing on their relative...

... Russians tend to scorn, and the intensely emotional and intimate sort of friendship, usually shared in a group rather than a dyad, that Russians consider uniquely their own. Both types, however, have long histories in Russia, which this article undertakes to trace. Intimate friendship appears...

..., is a more effective way of approaching them. The latter sort of interpretation entails another risk, however, which is that concepts like those of Roberts may get taken for mere illustrations of the arguments made by academic philosophers, whereas marginal thinking of Roberts's kind can form sophisticated...

... not only that her interpretation of Eliot's relationship to analytic philosophy is demonstrably incorrect but also that there is no point in valorizing vagueness or “fuzzy studies” if the upshot is not a sort of mutual respect and acceptance that scientistic clarity in the arts and humanities does...

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..., these four revisionists have shown that the interaction of conscious and unconscious elements of the mind can be comical and thus benign. The sorts of ambivalence, conflictedness, or multi-mindedness that Freud described as departures from a normative singlemindedness, Cavell and company have redescribed...

... realization it can occasion that the Real has absolutely nothing to do with the social or with any sort of ethical action. We argue that Jain asceticism cannot function as an adequate resource for contemporary ethics. Our normative concerns lie exclusively with the adequacy of Jain quietism in supporting...

... and his pneumatological realism about the church under postmodern conditions of rapid change and radical diversity. While Ratzinger fears that nonfoundational thought will result in the dictatorial imposition of successively less defensible and lasting sorts of order, for Bergoglio the problem...

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... that there are two radically different sorts of philosophical genius. One sort of philosophical genius—Aristotle and Kant were, for their respective epochs, ideal exemplars—proposes a highly believable (at least in its own time), coherent, and profound account...

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