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The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time by Jimena Canales
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Common Knowledge (2018) 24 (1): 167–168.
Published: 01 January 2018
...Oren Harman Canales Jimena , The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson, and the Debate that Changed Our Understanding of Time ( Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 ), 479 pp. Copyright © 2017 Duke University Press 2017...
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Understanding September 11; Critical Views of September 11: Analyses from Around the World
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Common Knowledge (2005) 11 (3): 493–494.
Published: 01 August 2005
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Understanding September 11 September...
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In Defense of Louis Xvi
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (2): 205–210.
Published: 01 April 2013
...Miguel Tamen In this guest column, the author argues, first, that being at the place of an event does not guarantee that one understands what is going on and, second, that something's happening with or to me does not guarantee that I understand what has occurred. He shows that it is generally...
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FROM THE LIBRARY OF THE SUPERREAL: The Metaphysics and Consciousness of an American “Channel”
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (3): 431–452.
Published: 01 September 2016
...Peter Skafish This article is an ethnographic account of the speculative thought of Jane Roberts, a spirit medium or “channel,” important in New Age religion for the books that she dictated at the behest of a personality named “Seth.” At first, she tried to understand her strange subjectivity...
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The Humility of Hypocrisy: On the Irenic Illiberalism of Jewish Law
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 229–268.
Published: 01 April 2009
..., is reevaluated with the purpose of limiting the potential of religious law to justify acts of violence. This reevaluation is founded upon an implicit critique of the “liberal” strategies that have sought to control the dangerous potential of religious law. The author proposes an irenic understanding...
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Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing
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Common Knowledge (2019) 25 (1-3): 171–175.
Published: 01 April 2019
.... Knowing about Martin Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther’s Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change essential to understanding Martin Guerre’s village world and what happened in it. Themes...
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Reticence and the Fuzziness of Thresholds: A Bakhtinian Apology for Quietism
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 424–445.
Published: 01 August 2013
... and Mandelstam's Silentium poems), as well as to a more broadly European intellectual context (Arendt and Heidegger, for example), where thinkers understand being in terms of becoming and understand disclosure through speech. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Symposium: Fuzzy Studies, Part 6...
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Martin Luther, Martin Guerre, and Ways of Knowing
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 4–8.
Published: 01 January 2014
... Guerre brings understanding of the peasant world, which is also important for the trajectory of Luther's Reformation. Knowing about Martin Luther brings knowledge of major religious change, essential to understanding Martin Guerre's village world and what happened in it. Themes of “imposture...
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Auschwitz
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 61–65.
Published: 01 January 2022
... that enables us to understand it. . . . The need, then, is not for the context that intellectual, cultural, and social historians might provide, but for the aid of phenomenologists, because what we are hoping to understand is—in the words of Thomas Nagel's essay ‘What Is It Like to Be a Bat?’—a ‘fundamentally...
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What Is Lyric Philosophy?: An Introduction
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Common Knowledge (2014) 20 (1): 14–27.
Published: 01 January 2014
... key concepts — clarity as resonance, metaphor as gestalt shift, meaning as gesture, the overlap between philosophy and poetry, the nature of lyric truth — and suggests that they are essential to an adequate epistemology. These concepts allow us to address serious gaps in our understanding of how...
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WHAT IT BETOKENED: Waiting for Hester in The Scarlet Letter
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Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (3): 420–436.
Published: 01 September 2015
...Beverly Haviland This contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on enmity argues that there is more to the problem of enmity than understanding, preventing, and resolving it: one must also recover from it and from its effects. Drawing on a psychoanalytic theory of shame that discriminates...
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Calendars of Exopraxis: On the Temporality of Muslim-Christian Shared Celebrations in Late Ottoman Cappadocia
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 308–332.
Published: 01 April 2020
... Christians in Cappadocia. These testimonies, taken from Orthodox Christians who lived in Turkey prior to the exchange of populations between Turkey and Greece in 1923, help us to understand how the sharing of religious calendars resulted in feelings of belonging to a single collectivity. Copyright © 2020...
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Disciplinary Translations: Latour in Literary Studies and Anthropology
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 230–250.
Published: 01 April 2020
... extensions and transformations, it offers an instructive case for understanding the potentials and dynamics of traveling texts and ideas—and of their relation to existing disciplinary formations—as ecologies of knowledge change. This article examines the reception and adaptation of Latour’s ideas in two...
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NON-IDENTITY POLITICS
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 117–122.
Published: 01 January 2011
... usually been concerned. The two forms of ethnicity are equally relative, in that a given group's self-understanding and self-designation are in both cases the result of its relations with other groups. However, ethnically extensive relations of the standard anthropological variety involve symbolic...
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OF ARCHIPELAGOS AND ARROWS
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 151–154.
Published: 01 January 2011
...Debbora Battaglia These comments on Eduardo Viveiros de Castro's article, “Zeno and the Art of Anthropology,” emphasize, first, his engagement with ideas of Gilles Deleuze that open to the political dimension of Amerindian perspectivism and to a “multinatural” understanding of human-to-environment...
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Introduction: Genres of Blur
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 220–228.
Published: 01 April 2012
... boundaries a healthy alternative to rigidly maintaining them. But what precisely does the metaphor of “blurring” imply? By unpacking the varieties of visual experiences that are normally grouped under this rubric, this essay seeks to provide some precision to our understanding of the implications...
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Interior Swelling: On the Expansive Effects of Ancestral Interventions in Maputo, Mozambique
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (3): 433–450.
Published: 01 August 2012
... on the outskirts of Maputo, the article challenges conventional understandings of relational forms as the connective “glue” holding together exterior and, to a certain extent, autonomous elements. In southern Mozambique, ancestral spirits intervene in the lives of their descendants as interior agentive forces...
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Fuzziness and Perceptions of Language in the Middle Ages: Part 1: Explosive Fuzziness: The Duel
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 255–266.
Published: 01 April 2012
... of “blurred genres” is used to think through the fuzzy properties of this period's bilingualism and to argue that to understand the boundaries between English and French as blurred is revealing of the linguistic and social tensions that were the product of conflict between two closely intertwined cultures...
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Can I Drive My Car from Its Form to Its Movement?
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 404–416.
Published: 01 August 2010
... offers a more modest idea of culture, along with specific suggestions on how to study and understand what we call “products of culture,” including fictions and ourselves. Duke University Press 2010 Can I Drive My Car From Its
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All Quietist on the Marina Front?: Reading Ernst Jünger's Auf Den Marmorklippen with Fénelon
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (1): 66–78.
Published: 01 January 2010
... and develop a new language to capture it. They understand that resistance against the ruling party is futile but do not reject their own responsibility for their friends and neighbors. The article concludes that Jünger presents the protagonists' escape at the end of the story as a temporary solution. He...
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