...Lionel Ruffel Copyright © 2011 Qui Parle 2011 Do Books Have a Place in a Shanghai World? lionel ruffel Translated by Simon Porzak For those who haven’t yet noticed, there’s a tune everyone’s whis- tling nowadays, and it’s the tune of rankings and evaluations. We’re...

... pluralist conception of culture and history that one associates with Herder, Humboldt, and Ranke. The latter tradition is usually the referent of the term historicism (especially in German scholarship), but Karl Popper—cited frequently in this essay—confusingly uses the word in an unconventional manner...

..., Douglass describes how, upon the death of a master, the enslaved were divided and appraised: We were all ranked together at the valuation. Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine. There were horses and men, cattle and women...

... as “to be in debt forever” is in some sense “to refuse to be in debt at all.” In the section’s closing essay, Lionel Ruffel examines the insti- tution of international rankings, which are the very lifeblood of Biesta’s notion of the global university. More commonly known as the Shanghai rankings...

..., the administration de- molished gates to the main Río Piedras campus and hired a private fi rm, Capitol Security, for $1.5 million instead of using its own unionized campus security guards. A former high-ranking police and fi re department offi cial now at the fi rm hired youth through...

...- representation of completion and job placement rates. Because mil- lions of former students are now “under water” with debt from on- line courses of study they never completed and/or whose benefi t they never reaped. Indebted alumni of online education are thus joining the ranks...

... for cabriolets to Paris was a young aristocrat accustomed to making no distinction in rank between horses and the common folk. Busying himself mornings with his hunt- ing dogs and evenings with the virtuous woman he is ruining, always politely bored, he...

... —then yes: a dog can be a man’s best friend. Aristotle recognized a third motive for friendship: friends because they are of use to us— utility friends —and in this category dogs would unquestionably qualify. Indeed, they would rank high: sheep dogs and guard dogs and seeing-eye dogs and companion dogs...

... score of names of the rank of Tolstoy, Melville, Flaubert, Hofmannsthal, and many more).3 And it is such writers (of fiction), with their tragic sense of the irremediableness of suf- fering — for to have a body is to suffer— who constitute a rebuke to Hegel, make...

... for Blumenberg, Ernst Cassirer probably ranks as second in importance. Cassirer developed in his works a conception of man as the animal symbolicum, grounding all of his various cultural productions in- cluding language, myth, religion, art, and scientific activity in a more generalized notion...

... committed by English and US American sailors, soldiers, and statesmen marauding in newly “opened” Japanese port cities and in China during and after the Opium Wars. Murders, beatings, rapes, and other attacks on Chinese and Japanese workers were so quotidian, and so ignoble to the tastes of high-ranking...

... criticism from that candidate herself, who chose ultimately not to accept a belabored invitation to join the ranks. As a result of this clash (not to mention the occasionally rancorous nature of the board's movement toward consensus regarding the articles that fol- low), the journal now finds...

... mirrors the global model with which they have increasingly come to interpret their social lives.” 1 “Transnational religions” can therefore be found in “cultures that make a radical and ranked distinction between the transcendental and mundane.” 2 For Beliso–De Jesús, the problem...

... its own kind. Expressed as a general rule: What is derives solely from what was.29 Techne is ranked very low in the organiza- tion of this cosmic process: The produced does not perpetuate it- self. Only indirectly — precisely through the unavoidable depen- dence...

... of compromise on quality at Kalamandalam when it came to the appointment of teachers and selection of students. The trainers and the trainees were fi ltered by the best available experts in kathakali and mohiniyattam. The top-ranking artists in acting, dancing, and music found shelter at Kalamandalam...

... us in the shoes and in the skin of others. But commitment does not belong to writers or to artists as such, and still less does it belong to them more than to men of other ranks. The elementary duties one has to others concern every man; to be loy- al, helpful, sincere...

... aspect of inheriting, inheritance, and heir: “The person who is entitled by law to succeed another in the enjoyment of property or rank, upon the death of the latter; one who so succeeds; in general use, one who receives or is entitled to receive property of any kind as the legal representative...

... else, which then concerns us just as little as what went before. Many people to- day take the view that they are doing great honor to something by fi nding it interesting. The truth is that such an opinion has already relegated the interesting thing to the ranks of what...

... by a high-ranking administrator at the University of Illinois in the late 1990s. I was simply troping on it at the time. But then, more recently—indeed, just as I was writing this essay in the spring semester of 2011—an invitation appeared in my e- mail, courtesy of the Penn State Alumni Association...

... liter- ary, fi lmic, and intellectual history. As is well known, the archive is a recurring concern in German thought. While the formulation of state archives originally represented a means to construct a na- tional German story for German historicists such as Leopold von Ranke, Negt and Kluge...