...Oren Harman Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Sober Elliot , Ockham’s Razors: A User’s Manual ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2015 ), 314 pp. ...

... of concern is that, in being utterly uninterested in defining absolute scales for comparison and in focusing only on the generative potential of comparing, she relativizes the very act of comparing. What matters to her is how experimental devices simultaneously sensitize their users to the phenomena at hand...

..., formatting, and categorization—visibly exhibited in the spatial arrangement of its holdings. As its users have long felt, the Warburg is more than a library: it is a complex physical space demonstrating the formal evolution or framing of human thought. The Warburg should thus be reconceived as a “house...

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...” of any kind must be placed. Users of the collection will learn, as well, that compromises we feel that we must make with our imperfect capacities should be understood as limitations that at least some predecessors have been able to transcend by following radical premises to their logical conclusions. ...

... of works of art (some of which are themselves, in the tradition of “found art” and collage, made of works of art), a creative noncreation and akin to Goldsmith's own notion of “uncreative writing.” The radical accessibility it offers, from which so many users around the world continue to benefit, has...

... invented and unleashed by publishers in flagrant disregard of the laws of the UK, the US, and the EU, all of which allow parody and pastiche without permission of the copyright holder. Second, he “takes seriously the argument that privileged users of Standard English have no business imitating...

... and academic managers are treating the Warburg Library with so little respect. They see it as a storehouse for books that is occupying an expensive patch of real estate, whereas its happy users see it as an enormous model of Aby Warburg’s mind and like to walk about...

... and decoration, like the copying of sacred texts or the creation of figured tex- tiles, generated karmic merit for real and honorary patrons, their families, other donors, and potential users of the space. Presumably the same merit accrues to the construction of full- size rep- Copyright © 2020 Duke...

... the copying of sacred texts or the creation of figured tex- tiles, generated karmic merit for real and honorary patrons, their families, other donors, and potential users of the space. Presumably the same merit accrues to the construction of full- size rep- C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 8 6 lica caves...

... to grasp its meaning? Lauxtermann and Jeffreys provide a kind of user s guide: five chapters dealing with different aspects of Psellos and his oeuvre, fol- lowed by summaries (not translations) of all the individual letters. Even then, there is plenty to argue about. Eleventh- century Byzantine literature...

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... Distinguished Professor in Anglican and Ecumenical Studies at the University of Tulsa, she was at one time Desmond Tutu s spiritual director. Her books include the two- volume Silence: A User s Guide; The Gateropod; The Fire of Your Life; Pillars of Flame; Seasons of Death and Life; The Fountain and the Furnace...

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...Richard Shiff C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 17 2 recipient to grasp its meaning? Lauxtermann and Jeffreys provide a kind of user s guide: five chapters dealing with different aspects of Psellos and his oeuvre, fol- lowed by summaries (not translations) of all the individual letters. Even...

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...-users have posed questions and answered them; the human need to understand ourselves and our problems; the ways in which different technologies have developed in different societies at different times; power relations; political and economic aims. All these interests Ian shared with the pragmatists...

... the user’s guide to the Zenith Z-100 and built his own PC). A persisting charge against Hugh and the Kenner Canon has been hauteur, classicism, remoteness from modern living (hence “antiquarian It’s too much for accusers—appliers of ready criteria—to read more than three...