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...John Boardman G. W. Bowersock, From Gibbon to Auden: Essays on the Classical Tradition (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 240 pp. Duke University Press 2010 LITTLE REVIEWS Sarah McNamer, Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion...

...Tova Hartman Duke University Press 2005 Sym p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 RESTORATIVE FEMINISM AND RELIGIOUS TRADITION Tova Hartman Feminism, in its many varieties, is inherently forward-looking; it calls for reform. Is a feminism...

...Elizabeth Fox-Genovese Duke University Press 2005 Sym p osium: Talking Peace with God s, Part 2 WHY MUST RELIGIOUS TRADITION BE RECONCILED WITH FEMINISM—RESTORATIVE, RADICAL, OR OTHERWISE? A Response to Tova Hartman Elizabeth Fox-Genovese...

... an elderly scholar might also place spectacles; we obtain thereby a new perspective on the topic. Recognizing that myths “may be much more deeply entrenched in our way of life than we might think,” Keum balks at the interpretive tradition that insists Plato's is “a rational and critical enterprise divorced...

... of traditional caste-bound Hindu tion of attacks on the Ayodhya mosque and the development of the Indian bomb government the (it in fell forming (BJP) Party...

...Simon Goldhill Li tt le R ev ie w s 11 7Peter Mack, Reading Old Books: Writing with Traditions (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2019), 255 pp. Reading Old Books offers readings of an eclectic selection of literary texts Petrarch s love poetry; Chaucer and Boccaccio; Ariosto, Tasso...

... writing is connected to this rich urban creative tradition. What is striking about Zhadan's poetry is how much it varies from one collection to another, yet the variance is primarily evidence of his constant quest for the clearest possible poetic voice. At the same time, Zhadan is constant in his...

...Jochen Brüning Chemla Karine , ed., The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 ), 612 pp. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015...

...Barry Allen In this monograph-length article, which inaugurates a multipart symposium titled “Fuzzy Studies,” the significance and virtues of blur are investigated through the whole history of Chinese intellectual tradition. In the Western tradition, the blur of becoming seems to disqualify...

..., and that more recently those concerns have merged in a more focused way in her attention to ecological issues. The impulse to fix philosophy and the environment depends in her work mainly on further linguistic statements and declarations, and on occasional overt rejections of traditional political remedies...

... societies have dealt with matters of war and peace. He in particular examines and finds wanting the approach that Jared Diamond takes in The World until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? (2012). Whereas Diamond's theme is that modern states can learn much about many things from...

... concentrated on ethnography, the second focuses on the peacemaking repertoire of the Greco-Latin tradition, whose basis is psychological. That tradition is characterized by its refusal of wishful thinking about human nature and, in particular, by its doubt about claims that human drives other than thumos...

... spiritual experiences that neither fit easily into the settled doctrines of traditions nor contest those doctrines by offering new, liberal, or relativizing alternatives. Rather, productive spaces open up wherein spiritual insight and uncertainty go hand in hand, created and accentuated by study, a stubborn...

... between the analytic and Continental traditions in philosophy: like the best analytic philosophers, it is argued, she is enamored of clarity, but, like what is best in the Continental tradition, she demands of philosophy a deeper sense of meaning than philosophical analysts tend to do. It is from...

..., ren (仁), that is a type of love but never translated as love per se. Although ren initially manifests as sympathy in the Confucian tradition, it is essentially an experience of love—a kind of love that is humane and universal. What the tradition calls “pure knowing” is the ground of “one‐body...

... from her African and Aboriginal colleagues, Verran disagrees with Stengers that the only option for science is to make the terms of its defeat explicit. This comment suggests that the sciences might learn from other knowledge traditions in finding the places and the means to develop divergent practices...

... critique of what the Romantic-Symbolist tradition of English poetry had become in the twentieth century. Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and other late Symbolists had turned artists into advocates of an irrational wisdom superior to reason and common sense, thus isolating—so Kermode argued—the world of art from...

...Jack Zipes This essay proposes that storytelling be reintroduced into schools and universities, at all levels and in all languages, though in a new and quite particular way. Instead of traditional storytelling that reaffirms the values of a mindlessly competitive and materialist world, the author...

... and practice. Where traditional Western painting, Jullien argues, calls for voyeuristically intense focus, traditional Chinese painting stimulates “ dé-tente , relaxation or ‘untensing’.” Intense focus on a blur is still, Perl observes, an intense focus. In describing a painting by the Yuan Dynasty master Ni...

... have little to say about Buddhism, while they exaggerate the role of the Muslim religion. This problem is acute when treating historical circumstances in which Buddhism and Islam are involved in tandem. Although people of the two traditions interacted throughout Asia for more than a millennium, which...