...James Brewer Stewart Copyright © 1976 by Duke University Press 1976 Politics and Belief in Abolitionism: Stanley Elkins Concept of Antiinstitutionalism and Recent Interpretations of American Antislavery James Brewer Stewart It is hardly a paradox that Stanley Elkins Slavery seems at once...

...A. Leigh Deneef Copyright © 1983 by Duke University Press 1983 The Shadow of Eternity: Belief and Structure in Herbert, Vaughan, and Traherne . By Seelig Sharon Cadman . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press , 1981 . Pp. 194 . $16.50 . Book Reviews 233 study. If it offers...

...Benjamin Boyce Fiction and the Shape of Belief: A Study of Henry Fielding With Glances at Swift, Johnson and Richardson . By Sacks Sheldon . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 1964 . Pp. viii , 278 . $7.00 . Copyright © 1965 by Duke University Press...

...Eugene Chesnick Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 William James: Fictions and Beliefs Eugene Chesnick The word play with which James introduces his topic The Will to Believe is well prescribed: I have brought with me to-night some­ thing like a sermon on justification by faith...

...Saba Mahmood; Peter G. Danchin A central claim of the right to religious liberty is to protect the right of individuals and groups, particularly religious minorities, to practice their beliefs freely without state coercion and threat of discrimination. Through a comparative reading of Egyptian...

... of belief. This cultivated speculative mentality is both replicated and reinforced by Victorian literary narrative's structural and thematic illumination of the constructed nature of the real, down to its most banal everyday manifestations. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Helen Groth Domestic...

... invulnerability is a symptom of the deeply embedded belief in security that has shaped modern discourses on subjectivity tout court. Rejecting this representation, this essay argues that the United States is not a subject that aspires to security but one that is convinced only of its radical vulnerability. Rather...

...Amy Austin Holmes It is never just rage against injustice that leads to mass uprisings, but also the millenarian belief in something better. The better life that the Egyptian and Turkish people fought for has not yet and may never materialize. A fleeting glimpse of an alternative future...

... truths, each of which claims to be the only possible truth. It is argued that these truths are products of a situated antagonistic struggle, which, rather than indicating a firm belief, are used to serve the purposes of a game of power seeking. The search for truth in the battle of good against evil...

... of pain. To theorize these events and remain true to suffering and grief, I consider psychoanalytic understandings of melancholy, then turn to Walter Benjamin. In his theses on the philosophy of history, he writes against the forgetting that is required by a belief in history-as-progress, and warns...

... in the US where the political divide between for‐or‐against lockdown, that is, for or against free access to public spaces, made the right‐wing refer to Sweden in positive terms. In Sweden it was the extreme right‐wing party, the Swedish Democrats (founded by neo‐Nazis), that expressed an explicit belief...

...?) of belief, new questions about the nature and operations of scientific knowledge, and new assessments of the role of academic philosophy both in posing such questions and in grounding or adjudicating their answers...

.... The second general feature to be noted is that, throughout his commen- tary, Boghossian produces statements about belief, reasons, evidence, and truth as if the meanings of those terms were transparent and the concepts...

... but from a political-juridical one.” Once these acts were made inconsequential to salvation, they could then be brought under the regulation of civil law. Hunter concludes that long before conceptions of subjective natural right or the inviolable autonomy of indi- vidual belief were ever on offer...

... of this assumption, expressed his optimistic view of the benefits of scientific discoveries. One explanation of this faith in the necessary goodness of truth, in whose name the Christian world view was destroyed, was the op­ timistic belief of many thinkers and scientists that the universe is somehow good...

... of the deepest sub­ ject matters of poetry. Robert Frost in conversation and in his letters vacillated from one extreme to the other in religion, and his attitudes were more changeable than Aleutian winds. From youth to age he may have moved from some belief to skepticism and back toward belief, but at any given...

...Roy P. Basler Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 AS ONE SOUTHERNER TO ANOTHER Concerning Lincoln and the Declaration of Independence ROY P. BASLER IS IT possible for human beings to live permanently at peace and in amity, and at the same time hold absolute beliefs totally di­...

... address questions of the organization of thought rather than 6820 THE SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY / 102:1 / sheet 221 of 286 specific beliefs and opinions. In other words, Rousseau and Kant might have authored modern liberalism by arguing for the accommodation of many dif...

... of these themes are examined by Leventhal in a logically or­ ganized monograph. His conclusion about the persistence of these beliefs is moderate: he sees most of what may be roughly called the scientific (such as the geocentric world view) ones as giving way rather quickly in the early decades of the century...

.... There are only inferences and assumptions derived from long-known collateral external evidence and from the critical belief that Donald Pizer, Pierce Butler Professor of English at Tulane University, has published widely on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American fiction. His most recent book...