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..., A Taste for the Secret, trans. Giacomo Donis (Cambridge, U.K.: Polity Press, 2001), 168 pp. Derrida’s recent religious turn might have been predicted by a psychoanalyst. The forces waiting for his writings, as he puts it, parallel as a rhetorical gesture the forces that he sees as waiting...

... the Cultural Turn (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999), 350 pp. This is an uneven, but in places suggestive, collection of papers on the present status of the concept of culture and cultural analysis in the historical sciences. There is an overall...

...Mikhail Epstein Grusin Richard , ed., The Nonhuman Turn . ( Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2015 ), 255 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Charlie Samuya Veric; Jeffrey M. Perl Lui Mary Ting Yi , The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2005 ), 298 pp. Copyright © 2019 Duke University Press...

...Charlie Samuya Veric Mary Ting Yi Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 298 pp. Duke University Press 2007 L I T T L E R E V I E W S...

...Baogang He Abstract In the fourth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” Nadia Urbinati criticized the lottocratic turn in political thought by, in part, using the case of China to cast doubt on whether lottocracy is a democratic form at all. This article, in response...

...David Bellos [email protected] Richard Scholar , Émigrés: French Words That Turned English ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2020 ), 253 pp. Copyright © 2022 by Duke University Press 2022 Etymologies are often entertaining, but it is not always obvious...

..., replying, Surely discovered what was true: Don t you too nd my songs implying That I am one but also two? 1814 15 G o et h e T en P o em s 1 3 55. Limitless (To Hafez) You cannot end that is what makes you great, Nor did you ever start that is your fate. Your song turns like the starry vault...

... 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...

.... More profoundly, Atwood's widely shared commonsense impression that consumer debt is a measure of self-indulgence does not hold up empirically. It turns out that our unprecedented levels of household indebtedness were overwhelmingly a function of nondiscretionary spending. Even as Americans owed one...

...Noa Halevy This article is the first installment of a three-part contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia. The series of three examines the ways in which Anglo-American writers, from the mid-nineteenth until the late twentieth century, turned to Russian literature and literary...

...Noa Halevy This second installment in a chronologically arranged, three-part sequence continues the author's examination of Anglo-American literati who, in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, turned — in acts of combined xenophilia and xenophobia — to Russian literature and literary...

...Noa Halevy This third installment in a chronologically arranged, three-part sequence concludes the author’s examination of Anglo-American literati who, in the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, turned—in acts of combined xenophilia and xenophobia—to Russian literature and literary theory...

...Jeffrey M. Perl This essay, by the editor of Common Knowledge , responds to a piece by Dionigi Albera that, in turn, responds to Jeffrey Perl’s introduction, published in May 2017, to CK ’s multipart symposium on xenophilia. Albera argues that the ambivalence that Perl observes in many instances...

..., including Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger. Magee treats each of these in turn, establishing case by case that the relation of the individual to the universal is the central issue of German thought, as it is of quietist thinking generally. The identity...

..., Toulmin's teacher and a lover of Tolstoy. All three men understood philosophy as having taken a wrong turn with the rise of rationalism, which occasioned to the idea that social life could be shown to conform to a hard science modeled on Newtonian physics. They saw the dream of a social science as entirely...

... the perception and being of the practitioner, and thereby to ensure his or her happiness. Later in his career, Hadot, influenced by German Romanticism and above all by Goethe, turned to study the history of the concept of nature from classical to modern times. The breadth of his interests and the novelty of his...

... have never been modern.” They accept the STS thesis that, while modern practices purport to be entirely rational and coherent, on closer inspection they turn out to be as much noncoherent as coherent. This article poses the question of what forms “noncoherences” take and how they are managed. The basic...