Columns

Stanley N. Katz

DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTIONALISM AFTER MILITARY OCCUPATION: Reflections on the United States' Experience in Japan, Germany, Afghanistan, and Iraq
Common Knowledge 12(2): 181-196 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-001 [PDF]  

Nina Pelikan Straus

FROM DOSTOEVSKY TO AL-QAEDA: What Fiction Says to Social Science
Common Knowledge 12(2): 197-213 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-002 [PDF]  

Symposium

   Unsocial Thought, Uncommon Lives, Part 1

Jeffrey M. Perl, Gregory B. Stone, Sissela Bok, Tom McCall, Susan Gubar, and Isabel Colegate

INTRODUCTION: UNSETTLING OTHERS
Common Knowledge 12(2): 214-218 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-003 [PDF]  

Gregory B. Stone

THE NAMELESS WILD ONE: The Ethics of Anonymous Subjectivity—Medieval and Modern
Common Knowledge 12(2): 219-251 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-004 [PDF]  

Sissela Bok

"NO ONE TO RECEIVE IT"?: Simone Weil's Unforeseen Legacy
Common Knowledge 12(2): 252-260 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-005 [PDF]  

Tom McCall

SOCIETY—"A GANG OF MURDERERS": Freud on Hostility and War
Common Knowledge 12(2): 261-278 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-006 [PDF]  

Susan Gubar

FALLING FOR ETTY HILLESUM
Common Knowledge 12(2): 279-301 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-007 [PDF]  

Isabel Colegate

AN INHERITED PREFERENCE FOR SOLITUDE: Great-Grandson of the Isolated Baronet
Common Knowledge 12(2): 302-304 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-008 [PDF]  

Little Reviews

Richard Rorty

Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community
Hauke Brunkhorst, Solidarity: From Civic Friendship to a Global Legal Community, trans. Jeffrey Flynn (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), 253 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 305 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-009 [PDF]  

Natalie Zemon Davis

Prometheus Revisited: The Quest for Global Justice in the Twenty-first Century
Arthur Mitzman, Prometheus Revisited: The Quest for Global Justice in the Twenty-first Century (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), 319 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 306 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-010 [PDF]  

William Dalrymple

The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identity
Amartya Sen, The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian History, Culture, and Identity (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005), 432 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 307 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-011 [PDF]  

Caryl Emerson

Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia
Lesley Chamberlain, Motherland: A Philosophical History of Russia (London: Atlantic, 2004), 331 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 308-309 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-012 [PDF]  

Sharon Cameron

Petre Tutea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide
Alexander Popescu, Petre Tutea: Between Sacrifice and Suicide (Aldershot, U.K.: Ashgate, 2004), 325 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 309-310 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-013 [PDF]  

Caroline Walker Bynum

Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World: The First Nine Centuries AD
Peter Dronke, Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World: The First Nine Centuries AD (Florence: SISMEL, Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2003), 261 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 310 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-014 [PDF]  

Joseph Frank

Shakespeare and the French Poet
Yves Bonnefoy, Shakespeare and the French Poet, ed. John Naughton (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004), 304 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 310-311 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-015 [PDF]  

John Boardman

Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans
John R. Clarke, Art in the Lives of Ordinary Romans (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003), 383 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 312 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-016 [PDF]  

Helen Cooper

Piers Plowman and the Poor
Anne M. Scott, Piers Plowman and the Poor (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2004), 263 pp.
Common Knowledge 12(2): 313 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-017 [PDF]  

Poetry and Fiction

Friederike Mayröcker

NINE POEMS
Common Knowledge 12(2): 314-322 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-018 [PDF]  

César Aira

FROM AN EPISODE IN THE LIFE OF A LANDSCAPE PAINTER
Common Knowledge 12(2): 323-343 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-019 [PDF]  

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 12(2): 344-346 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-12-2-344 [PDF]  

Erratum

Erratum
Common Knowledge 12(2): 347 (2006); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2005-020 [PDF]  

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