...Victoria Kahn Victoria Kahn Political Theology and Reason of State in Samson Agonistes In his treatise on Political Theology of 1922, Carl Schmitt defined the sovereign as he who de­ cides on the exception. 1 Schmitt, a conservative scholar of constitutional law during the Weimar Republic...

...Manuel De Landa Copyright © 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Manuel De Landa Virtual Environments and the Emergence of Synthetic Reason ^\t the end of World War II, Stanislav Ulam and other scientists previously involved in weapons research at Los Alamos discovered the huge potential...

...Alistair M. Duckworth The Impossible Observer: Reason and the Reader in 18th-Century Prose . By Uphaus Robert W. . Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky , 1979 . Pp. 160 . $14.00 . Copyright © 1981 by Duke University Press 1981 Book Reviews 237 Thackeray s Canvass...

... : Monthly Review . Tort Michel . 2000 . “Quelques consequences de la différence psychanalytique des sexes” (“Some Consequences of the Psychoanalytic Difference of the Sexes”) . Les Temps Modernes , no. 609 : 176 – 215 . Christine Delphy Preface: Critique of Naturalizing Reason...

...George F. Newbrough Copyright © 1948 by Duke University Press 1948 /z>T' REASON AND UNDERSTANDING IN THE WORKS OF THEODORE PARKER* GEORGE F. NEWBROUGH HEODORE PARKER was generally acknowledged in his X day as a leading spokesman of the transcendentalist school of thought. He was our...

...Frances Acomb The Faith of Reason: The Idea of Progress in the French Enlightenment . By Frankel Charles . New York : King’s Crown Press , 1948 . Pp. 165 . $3.00 . Copyright © 1949 by Duke University Press 1949 154 The South Atlantic Quarterly torted in tradition...

...Carl B. Cone Man of Reason: the Life of Thomas Paine . By Aldridge Alfred Owen . Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1959 . Pp. 348 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 439 implicit on every page and explicit on many. What s more...

...Arthur B. Ferguson Right Reason in the English Renaissance . By Hoopes Robert . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1962 . Pp. viii , 248 . $5.75 . Copyright © 1962 by Duke University Press 1962 544 The South Atlantic Quarterly Of these able discussions of American...

...Ronald Berman Copyright © 1964 by Duke University Press 1964 Shakespearean Comedy and the Uses of Reason Ronald Berman The dialogue of The Courtier begins after Cesar Gonzago suggests that every man doe his best to grounde his opinion upon some sure signs and argument. With a kind...

...William Van O’connor The Inclusive Flame . By Cambon Glauco . Bloomington : Indiana University Press , 1963 . Pp. 248 . $6.95 . Swifter Than Reason . By Day Douglas . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , 1963 . Pp. 228 . $5.00 . The Poetry of W. H...

...Harold T. Parker Progress in the Age of Reason . By Sampson R. V. . Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press , 1957 . Pp. 259 . $4.25 . Copyright © 1958 by Duke University Press 1958 144 The South Atlantic Quarterly offer the reader a glimpse, at least...

...Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze Transition and the Reasons of Memory Forgiveness is not, it should not be, normal, normative, normalizing. It should remain exceptional and extraor...

... critical—tainted by the particularity of religious tradition and thus disqualified from the alleged universality of secular reason. On this account, critical thought could be informed only by secular reason. Criticism, in this picture, is bound up with the disenchantment of the world. This confidence...

... alone, God descends to permeate our entire personal being, body and soul. Second, liturgy completes thought because the governing of our senses by reason was disturbed by the fall of Adam. Disordered reason cannot recover this ordering, but our senses remain relatively innocent, like animals...

... of the social is accepted has to be defended against the “new antidemocrats” (such as Slavoj Žižek, Alain Badiou, or the Invisible Committee). For this reason, a democratic notion of solidarity is proposed that is based on the never-ending play between politics and the political. Second, a notion of “minimal...

... labor of plantation and maquiladora, which are seen as unrelated to the centers of profit. More is involved in this turn than the reappearance of what was once sardonically called “critical criticism.” There are fully economic reasons as well. To what degree, for example, is contemporary theory a labor...

..., tenure and its lifetime job security). Without the Platonic cover of academic freedom, the exorbitant job guarantees of tenure would, it seems, have precious little reason to exist. However, in the Platonic spirit of academic freedom, I want to propose that we jettison the entire notion of academic...

... and scientific reason. These concepts also provided the foundation for the Renaissance and Enlightenment in Europe, in which feudalism and theological absolutism—two structures of power and domination that marked the Middle Ages—collapsed. Scientific rationality and individual property, which formed the basis...

...Cheryl Suzack This essay undertakes a cultural analysis of law and literature to analyze the relationship between the Supreme Court of Canada's reasoning in Delgamuukw and Eden Robinson's novel Monkey Beach . It shows how legal texts enact a foreclosure of social space by transforming human...

...Mark Driscoll U.S. president Barack Obama bowed deeply to the Japanese emperor Akihito in November 2009, which set off a huge outcry by conservatives and neoconservatives. Dick Cheney steamed, “There is no reason for an American president to be bowing to anyone. Our friends and allies don't expect...