...Douglas Mao Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 288 pp. Duke University Press 2008 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York...

...Caroline Walker Bynum Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination , trans. Jane Marie Todd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 352 pp. Duke University Press 2009 Little Reviews Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints...

...George Bornstein Foster R. F. , Words Alone: Yeats and His Inheritances ( Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2011 ), 236 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Robin Fox, The Tribal Imagination...

... UNFINISHED BUSINESS WHEN METAPHYSICAL WORDS BLOSSOM Pierre and Hélène Clastres on Guarani Thought Renato Sztutman Translated by Julia Frajtag Sauma This essay is about neither the Guarani people nor the work of Pierre and Hélène Clastres. Rather, it concerns the nature...

...Marina Vanzolini Kopenawa Davi and Albert Bruce , The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman , trans. Elliot Nicholas and Dundy Alison . ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2013 ), 648 pp. © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

...Anthony Pagden Subrahmanyam Sanjay , Europe’s India: Words, People, Empires, 1500 – 1800 ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2017 ), 416 pp. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 ...

... students requested the use of “trigger warnings” before the utterance of words like rape . The instructor and her teaching assistant Katharine Wallerstein individually give their views of this disconcerting experience and comment on the difficulties of teaching critical thinking in the current political...

...Miguel Tamen Morson Gary Saul , The Words of Others: From Quotations to Culture . ( New Haven, CT : Yale University Press , 2011 ), 352 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

... available source of comfort since he has been gone. Aden Bar- Tura doi 10.1215/0961754X-8525990 David Bromwich, How Words Make Things Happen (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), 113 pp. It is notoriously hard to argue for the political and moral import of words from the claim that nothing necessarily...

...David Bellos dbellos@princeton.edu 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...

...Anna Wierzbicka This essay argues that, since Kant wrote in German and since German has no word for “right” corresponding in meaning to the English word, it is a case of conceptual anglocentrism to say, as many anglophone philosophers do, that Kant reformulated the foundations of ethics...

...Christopher S. Wood “ Dromenon ” was and is the rubric governing the fourth and final floor of Aby Warburg's Library. The word means “the thing done,” “the action,” and in the context of the Greek Mysteries referred to rites, as opposed to words and images. In the Warburg Library in London...

... and symptoms of Warburg's psychosis, which uncannily prefigure real historical terrors, this article represents the lecture as (in Warburg's words) a powerful “seismograph” of the European soul. Placing us at Warburg's writing desk at the pivotal moment of the author's cure-by-writing, the title page also...

... apology for quietism and seeks to contribute to recent work in Common Knowledge on that subject. Bakhtin's conception of reticence is usefully understood with reference to threshold situations: in withholding a future word, a human being hovers on the borders of nonbeing and being, on the borders...

... that yoga is an essentially Hindu practice, making their case by appealing to the Yoga Sutras, a text by the Sanskrit author Patanjali. However, on closer examination, the Yoga Sutras seem to exist in a fuzzy, indeterminate space that is not quite “Hindu” in the way the word is understood today...

... perception or imagination-enriched perception, (c) issues in the analysis of meaning down to constituent parts and the problematic legacy of atomistic approaches to word-meaning, (d) the inflection of experience across time and across context and the role of sensibility in both perception and linguistic...

... writing marginalia for his own later use while reading. Thus, the historian does all the archival work necessary for readers to arrive at their own hypotheses about how rurality related to urbanity in fifteenth-century Suffolk and, perhaps, also about the meaning of the word urbane . © 2014 by Duke...

... achieve a preverbal intuition of its meaning, the article suggests that, when we attend carefully to the words of the poem, we will be intriguingly perplexed. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Colloquium: Lyric Philosophy, Exempla and Responsa “NOW I GET...

... emotional force of a visual presentation is diminished or even destroyed by the generalizing classifications that verbal thinking entails. Sensation suffers from any reconstitution in words. “Watch Out for Thinking” focuses on the views of two critics (Clement Greenberg, Charles Harrison) and two artists...

...Karen Pinkus In this contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” the words ambiguity, ambivalence , and ambience are shown to share the common prefix, from Latin, ambi -, defined in most modern dictionaries as “around, on both sides.” Ambi captures...