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... they differ, and of what those similarities and differences say about the societies that conceived the forms. The expressiveness of the body means that “knowing the body” is never simply once and for all. —Don Seeman Steve Fuller, Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical...

...Anthony Kenny Turner Denys , Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 312 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

... of trust that most of our contempo- raries bestow only on self- sufficient, self- describing individuals and unthreaten- ing house pets. Such a community was the true and only possible home of the wondrous Edward Lear. Miguel Tamen doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723263 Robyn Arianrhod, Thomas Harriot: A Life...

... in Northumberland, among other places, and producing a wonderfully lucid and rich new account. Rescuing a brave mind from the talons of time is a special kind of service. Finally, for all to see, Harriot comes to light. Oren Harman doi 10.1215/0961754X-8723279 Thomas Elyot, The Image of Governance and Other...

...James Olney Matthew J. Bruccoli, ed., The Sons of Maxwell Perkins: Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, and Their Editor (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2004), 361 pp. © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008...

...John Watkins Wyatt Thomas Sir , The Complete Works , vol. 1, Prose , ed. Powell Jason ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2016 ), 528 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

...Anthony Kenny; Jeffrey M. Perl Turner Denys , Thomas Aquinas: A Portrait ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2014 ), 312 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...H. R. Woudhuysen; Jeffrey M. Perl Farge Arlette , The Allure of the Archives , trans. Scott-Railton Thomas , foreword by Natalie Zemon Davis ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2013 ), 152 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press 2019 ...

...Stephen Thomas Common Knowledge 26:3 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-8521657 © 2020 by Duke University Press 552 THE WHEEL Stephen Thomas 1 My old man made me reinvent the wheel, and this was everyday. Yesterday s invention never did. That just won t do, he d say. I did what I could with parts and parts...

...Keith Thomas Koslofsky Craig , Evening's Empire: A History of the Night in Early Modern Europe ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 431 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS...

...Downing Thomas Duke University Press 2003 CK 9.2-09 Thomas 3/14/03 10:50 AM Page 286 CONDILLAC’S OTHER AMBITIONS Scholarship after the Heyday of Heydays Downing Thomas If we were to sketch out...

...Keith Thomas; Jeffrey M. Perl This guest column comprises both a review of the English translation of Carlo Ginzburg’s book Threads and Traces: True False Fictive (2012) and some general comments on the merits and demerits of microhistory as a genre poised between historical writing and fiction...

...Keith Thomas This guest column comprises both a review of the English translation of Carlo Ginzburg's book Threads and Traces: True False Fictive (2012) and some general comments on the merits and demerits of microhistory as a genre poised between historical writing and fiction. The column...

...Colin Richmond The author here extends a dialogue with Jeffrey M. Perl, published in the Spring 2010 issue of Common Knowledge , under the title “`Decorate the Dungeon.'” That dialogue concerns whether Thomas More could have avoided martyrdom though he acted with heroic quietism during...

...Jeffrey M. Perl; Colin Richmond; Abdulaziz Sachedina; Branka Arsić; Anonymous Envoi In the place of an introduction to part 5 of the Common Knowledge symposium on forms of quietism, the journal's editor and one of its longtime columnists discuss, in dialogue format, the case of Thomas More. Could...

...Colin Richmond This essay takes the Morte Darthur of Sir Thomas Malory as a test case for the applicability of Thomas Kuhn's notion of “paradigm shifts” to the history of culture. While Kuhn apparently found inspiration in the disciplines of cultural and art history for his idea that scientific...

... legal roll, and finally a pair of French poems about the death of the English commander, Thomas Montagu, fourth earl of Salisbury, at the English siege of Orléans in 1428, contrasted with some English translations of poems by Charles d'Orléans. The essay argues that blurriness in medieval bilingualism...

..., with the distinction between narrative history and fiction, or between discursive philosophy and poetry, is a time-honored maneuver. Hence the appearance in this special issue of three pieces (by historians Natalie Zemon Davis, Sir Keith Thomas, and Colin Richmond) on microhistory, along with the first installment...

...Nicolas Langlitz Based on anthropological fieldwork on the revival of hallucinogen research as well as on the epistemic culture of neurophilosophy, this Common Knowledge guest column examines two very different philosophical engagements with psychedelic drugs. In Thomas Metzinger's evidence-based...

...Terry Eagleton This essay introduces a cluster of articles titled “Devalued Currency: An Elegiac Symposium on Paradigm Shifts.” Eagleton's piece addresses, from a perspective indebted to Walter Benjamin, the notion of Thomas Kuhn that “shifts” in the controlling paradigms of disciplines...