COLUMNS

Richard A. Shweder

THE RESOLUTE IRRESOLUTION OF CLIFFORD GEERTZ
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 191-205 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-001 [PDF]  

Renato Rosaldo

GEERTZ'S GIFTS
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 206-210 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-002 [PDF]  

Stephen Greenblatt

THE CROWD PARTS
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 211-213 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-003 [PDF]  

SYMPOSIUM

   A “Dictatorship of Relativism”? Symposium in Response to Cardinal Ratzinger's Last Homily

Gianni Vattimo

INTRODUCTION: "SURTOUT PAS DE ZÈLE"
Translated by Robert Valgenti
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 214-218 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-004 [PDF]  

Julia Kristeva

RETHINKING "NORMATIVE CONSCIENCE": The Task of the Intellectual Today
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 219-226 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-005 [PDF]  

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

RELATIVISM, TODAY AND YESTERDAY
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 227-249 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-006 [PDF]  

David Bloor

EPISTEMIC GRACE: Antirelativism as Theology in Disguise
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 250-280 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-007 [PDF]  

Christopher Norris

DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROFESSORIAT?: Antiobjectivism in Anglo-American Philosophy
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 281-314 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-008 [PDF]  

Daniel Boyarin

THE SCANDAL OF SOPHISM: On the Epistemological Seriousness of Relativism
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 315-336 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-009 [PDF]  

Jeffrey M. Perl

T. S. ELIOT'S SMALL BOAT OF THOUGHT
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 337-361 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-010 [PDF]  

Kenneth J. Gergen

RELATIVISM, RELIGION, AND RELATIONAL BEING
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 362-378 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-011 [PDF]  

Richard Shusterman

FALLIBILISM AND FAITH
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 379-384 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-012 [PDF]  

Jeffrey Stout

A HOUSE FOUNDED ON THE SEA: Is Democracy a Dictatorship of Relativism?
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 385-403 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-013 [PDF]  

Jeffrey F. Hamburger

OVERKILL, OR HISTORY THAT HURTS
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 404-428 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-014 [PDF]  

Mary Baine Campbell, Lorraine Daston, Arnold I. Davidson, John Forrester, and Simon Goldhill

ENLIGHTENMENT NOW: Concluding Reflections on Knowledge and Belief
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 429-450 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-015 [PDF]  

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger

APPENDIX: HOMILY PRO ELIGENDO ROMANO PONTIFICE: Addressed to the College of Cardinals, April 18, 2005, in the Vatican Basilica
Translation courtesy of the Holy See Press Office
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 451-455 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-016 [PDF]  

LITTLE REVIEWS

Ian Hacking

Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson, Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 2005), 372 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 456-457 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-017 [PDF]  

Peter Burke

Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
Richard A. Shweder and Byron Good, eds., Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 160 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 457 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-018 [PDF]  

Natalie Zemon Davis

Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance
Carlo Ginzburg, Wooden Eyes: Nine Reflections on Distance, trans. Martin Ryle and Kate Soper (London: Verso, 2002), 276 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 458-459 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-019 [PDF]  

J. G. A. Pocock

Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks; Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: Mughals and Franks (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), 232 pp.
Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Explorations in Connected History: From the Tagus to the Ganges (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2005), 264 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 459 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-020 [PDF]  

Kirsten Schultz

Black Africans in Renaissance Europe
T. F. Earle and K. J. P. Lowe, eds., Black Africans in Renaissance Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 434 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 460 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-021 [PDF]  

G. Thomas Tanselle

The Shakespeare First Folio
Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio, 2 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001-3), 648 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 460-461 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-022 [PDF]  

Charlie Samuya Veric

The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City
Mary Ting Yi Lui, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 298 pp.
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 461-462 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-023 [PDF]  

FICTION AND POETRY

Juan Villoro

FROM THE WITNESS
Translated by Chris Andrews
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 463-476 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-024 [PDF]  

Grzegorz Wróblewski

TWENTY POEMS
Translated by Adam Zdrodowski and Joel Leonard Katz
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 477-496 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-025 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

Joseph Frank

THE CONSEQUENCE OF IAN WATT: A Call for Papers on Diminished Reputations
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 497-511 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-026 [PDF]  

Carlo Maria Cardinal Martini

ROAD TO JERUSALEM
Translated by Yaakov Mascetti
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 512-530 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2007-027 [PDF]  

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 13(2-3): 531-535 (2007); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-13-2-3-531 [PDF]  

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