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.... As the essays gathered in this special issue suggest, that behavioralist redefinition of diplomacy might apply just as well to the premodern state system, before the rise of the familiar foreign office, as to the postmodern state system, whose multilayered complexities extend, resist, and often successfully...

.... It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. authorial intention textual authority and interpretation history of criticism postmodernism Almost every interpretative university discipline in or adjacent to the Humanities makes routine, unproblematic appeal to intention...

... in postmodernism’s abiding fixation on the new, however much it might try to repackage (postmodernize) novelty as “difference” or “alterity.”12 For Lyo- tard, the postmodern continues within the purview of the modern precisely because of this abiding fixation; indeed, to account for the ongoing prolif- eration...

... in the occult may represent a continuation rather than a novel departure or an invented, postmodern tradition. Protestantism’s distinctive contribution to dispelling a magical world has also been questioned by fresh awareness of the extent to which the Catholic Reformation itself sought to eliminate...

.... Whereas the premodern grammarian overlooked the implications of sentence struc- ture as belonging properly to metaphysics, the “postmodern” grammarian rejects metaphysics altogether and therefore overlooks the implications of sentence structure. But from this worldview and this sort of “grammatol...

.... Copyright © by Duke University Press / 2000 / $2.00. JMEMS30.3-07.Brown 9/1/00 5:05 PM Page 548 But this is “now,” and there are elements about the “Middle Ages” that feel foreign—foreign in this modern, postmodern, or maybe even post- postmodern land we still...

... Modern Studies / 46.3 / 2016 by Michael B. Smith. Religion and Postmodernism Series. Chicago: Uni- versity of Chicago Press, 2015. xvi, 287 pp.; 6 figs., 5 tables. $45.00. [The long-­awaited, posthumous volume two of Certeau’s work for the Religion and Postmodernism Series. Certeau’s literary...

... collage, whose frag- ments stir and bristle at the passage of our bodies, as pendant cut-­outs once reacted to the air currents in the apartment of Henri Matisse.1 A postmodern viewer now needs to be taught that the cutting and sticking of painted paper were once considered a radically unorthodox...

..., OFM, Postmodernity and Univocity: A Critical Account of Radical Orthodoxy and John Duns Scotus (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2014). 8 Thomas Williams, “The Doctrine of Univocity Is True and Salutary,” Modern Theol- ogy 21, no. 4 (2005): 575 – 85. 9 Richard Cross, “Where the Angels...

... sixteenth-century rupture in the history of the subject, but were actually a sine qua non for the development of capitalist social formation, and, a strange thought, even for the development of ‘postmodern cultures68 This is not to say that such features are ahistorical...

... at the “problem” of The Middle Ages. Most obviously, we risk reimporting the very hegemonies we are work- ing to overthrow, making “postcolonial theory,” for example, into yet one more tool of Modern and postmodern colonization of The Middle Ages. To the extent...

... on the ruses of both premodern and postmodern racial imagination. Before looking more carefully at the premodern texts themselves, I would like first to address several questions that specifically pertain to the issue of ethnographic textual interpretation. When...

... of the fi eld, the poor and exploited humans, together against the will of power and corruption. Once again in postmodernity we fi nd ourselves in Francis’s situation, posing against the misery of power the joy of being. This is a revolution that no power will control—because bio...

... in virtue; the egg is the collapse of the shared morality of medieval Christianity that, in turn, hatches the chicken, capitalism — not the other way around.26 Moreover, despite his late, understated reference to “some intellectually sophisticated postmodern critics who are religious believers” (385...

... the periphery of the early modern cockfight tell us about how we deploy sport as a trope for narrating culture, both early modern and postmodern? These questions take me beyond Wilson’s singular focus on male subject formation, and as a way of addressing them I read his text alongside other core...

... the Big Idea? Intellectual History and the Longue Durée ,” History of European Ideas 38, no. 4 (2012): 493–507, at 506–7. 43 Jean-François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge , trans. Geoff Bennington and Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984), 53...

... Prefaces in Glossed Books of the Twelfth Century . Studies and Texts, vol. 225. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2021. xxv, 301 pp., 150 color illus. Hardcover. Hadbawnik, David, ed. Postmodern Poetry and Queer Medievalism: Time Mechanics . New Queer Medievalisms, vol. 2. Berlin: De...

... triumphantly different from the past) than discourses of modernity have tended to suggest.10 One felicitous result of the deconstruction of the modernist teleol- ogy is that medieval European history can thus become “relevant” to under- standing the “postmodern” world.11 More importantly for my...

... is dead.” “Oh dear,” says John, apparently at a worried loss for anything else to say.71 This joke about the occasional absurdities and seeming nihilism of some forms of contemporary art is, of course, a very postmodern one; it would have been incomprehensible to the late medieval and early modern...

... of Chicago Press, forthcoming); and Carolyn Dinshaw, Getting Medieval: Sexualities and Communities, Pre- and Postmodern (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 1999). 10 David Halperin, “Forgetting Foucault: Acts, Identities, and the History of Sexuality...