... 2010 Duke University Press 2010 Grant Farred “Science does not think”: The No-Thought of the Discipline For language is like the rest—it is not enough to speak of it. —Jacques Derrida, The Animal That Therefore I Am...

...Susan Gillman Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Susan Gillman Sure Identifiers : Race, Science, and the Law in Twain s Pudd nhead Wilson A book is the writer s secret life, the dark twin of a man. William Faulkner, Mosquitoes Soon after Pudd nhead Wilson was published in late...

...Steven Weiland Copyright © 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 Life History, Psychoanalysis, and Social Science: The Example of John Bollard Steven Weiland No less than today s social scientists their forerunners complained about the isolation of the disciplines from one another, questioned...

...Henry Petroski The Beginnings of the Nobel Institution: The Science Prizes, 1901–1915 . By Crawford Elisabeth . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, and Paris : Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme , 1984 . Pp. ix , 281 . Illus. $34.50 . Copyright © 1986 by Duke...

...Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 From Scopes to Creation Science: The Decline and Revival of the Evolution Controversy Willard B. Gatewood, Jr. An incongruous assortment of people converged on Dayton, Tennessee, in July 1925, to witness the trial of John...

...John Polemics Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 Three Paradigms on the Relation of Science to Society "John Polemics Introduction Medieval man was above all concerned with the condition of the human spirit. Because he regarded the study of physical man and his environment...

...Seymour H. Mauskopf In the Shadow of the Enlightenment: Occultism and Renaissance Science in Eighteenth-Century America . By Leventhal Herbert . New York : New York University Press , 1976 . Pp. 330 . $15.00 . Copyright © 1977 by Duke University Press 1977 386 The South...

...Donald Greene Samuel Johnson and the New Science . By Schwartz Richard B. . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1971 . Pp. 188 . $10.00 . Copyright © 1972 by Duke University Press 1972 Book Reviews 269 in his Liber Amoris. After his divorce, his second marriage...

...Fernando Wood Martin Copyright © 1911 by Duke University Press 1911 Science as a Rationalizing Factor in the Course of Study Fernando Wood Martin, Professsor of Chemistry in Randolph Macon Woman s College During the decade now drawing to a close, American journals of education have published...

...Walter W. Lucasse Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SCIENCE WALTER W. LUCASSE THE Walrus might well have announced his subject as science when he declared that the time had come To talk of many things ; Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, And cabbages and kings...

...W. T. Laprade Copyright © 1933 by Duke University Press 1933 SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH W. T. LAPRADE ONE may earnestly desire the success of this book1 as a pamphlet in favor of larger endowments for Southern universities, larger appropriations to them by the states, fewer teaching hours...

...Daniel McDonald Science, Literature, and Absurdity Daniel McDonald It seems to me that the concept of absurdity which underlies much of modern literature derives from the breakdown of the traditional common-sense view of reality and that the findings of modern sci­ ence have contributed notably...

...William Louis Poteat Religion in Science* By William Louis Poteat, President and Professor of Biology in Wake Forest College The invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity. Paul...

...William Louis Poteat Copyright © 1908 by Duke University Press 1908 The Scope and Function of Science* By William Louis Poteat President of Wake Forest College The experimental sciences had investigated the connection of phe­ nomena; they showed how many and what kind of links constitute...

...William Blackburn The Breaking of the Circle: Studies in the Effect of the “New Science” upon Seventeenth Century Poetry . By Nicolson Marjorie Hope . Evanston : Northwestern University Press , 1950 , pp. xxii , 189 . Copyright © 1952 by Duke University Press 1952 Book Reviews...

...Joel Colton Yivo Annual of Jewish Social Science . Vol. VII . Edited by Pinson Koppel S. . New York : Yiddish Scientific Institute—Yivo , 1952 . Pp. 304 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 Book Reviews 629 of the aspirations of the common man as the propaganda...

...Jessie Bernard Copyright © 1947 by Duke University Press 1947 SOCIAL SALVATION THROUGH SCIENCE JESSIE BERNARD A HUNDRED YEARS AGO Auguste Comte s Positive Polity appeared and shocked and embarrassed the enthusiastic follow­ ers gained for him a decade earlier by his Positive Philosophy...

...T. Swann Harding Copyright © 1938 by Duke University Press 1938 The South Atlantic Quarterly Vol. XXXVII JANUARY, 1938 Number 1 CAN SCIENCE PRODUCE LIFE? T. SWANN HARDING OVER THREE hundred years ago the great Dutch scientist Van Helmont gave the world a recipe for obtaining live mice from...

...Lewis W. Parker Copyright © 1910 by Duke University Press 1910 Science in its Relation to the Industrial Development of the South.* By Lewis W. Parker. President of the Southern Cotton Manufacturers Association. When five years ago there was celebrated the centennial of this institution...

...W. L. Poteat Copyright © 1903 by Duke University Press 1903 Science and Culture By W. L. Poteat, Professor of Biology in W ake Forest College The three-quarters of a century lying next behind us have recorded the most marked and rapid scientific progress which history has to show. Indeed, one...