COLUMNS

Julia Kristeva

REFOUNDATION AS SURVIVAL: An Interrogation of Hannah Arendt
Common Knowledge 14(3): 353-364 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-001 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ermanno Bencivenga

THE TROUBLE WITH CEPHALOPODA
Common Knowledge 14(3): 365-373 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-002 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eugene Ostashevsky

THE CASE OF "THE YELLOW NOTEBOOK": Wittgenstein in Leningrad
Common Knowledge 14(3): 374-379 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-003 [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYMPOSIUM

   Devalued Currency: Elegiac Symposium on Paradigm Shifts Part 3

Miguel Tamen, Wayne Andersen, Velcheru Narayana Rao, Sanjay Subrahmanyam, Ingrid D. Rowland, J. Paul Hunter, and Yoke-Sum Wong

INTRODUCTION: FROM SCRATCH
Common Knowledge 14(3): 380-383 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-004 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wayne Andersen

MOVING CONSTANTS—IN THE WEST: A Response to "Change at Ise Jing"
Common Knowledge 14(3): 384-395 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-005 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Velcheru Narayana Rao and Sanjay Subrahmanyam

AN ELEGY FOR NTI: Politics as a Secular Discursive Field in the Indian Old Régime
Common Knowledge 14(3): 396-423 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-006 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ingrid D. Rowland

What Giordano Bruno Left Behind: Rome, 1600
Common Knowledge 14(3): 424-433 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-007 [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. Paul Hunter

MISSING YEARS: On Casualties in English Literary History, Prior to Pope
Common Knowledge 14(3): 434-444 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-008 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yoke-Sum Wong

MODERNISM'S LOVE CHILD: The Story of Happy Architectures
Common Knowledge 14(3): 445-471 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-009 [Abstract] [PDF]  

FICTION AND POETRY

Félix Fénéon

MORE NOUVELLES
Translated and with an introduction by Luc Sante
Common Knowledge 14(3): 472-477 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-010 [PDF]  

Eric McHenry

FIVE POEMS
Common Knowledge 14(3): 478-483 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-011 [PDF]  

LITTLE REVIEWS

Alick Isaacs

The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama
Thomas Laird, The Story of Tibet: Conversations with the Dalai Lama (New York: Grove, 2006), 383 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 484 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-033 [PDF]  

J. G. A. Pocock

What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe
Anthony Grafton, What Was History? The Art of History in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 330 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 485-487 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-012 [PDF]  

Peter Burke

The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock
D. N. DeLuna, ed., with Perry Anderson and Glynn Burgess, The Political Imagination in History: Essays concerning J. G. A. Pocock (Baltimore, MD: Owlworks, 2006), 174 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 487 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-013 [PDF]  

G. Thomas Tanselle

Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice
Michael Hunter, Editing Early Modern Texts: An Introduction to Principles and Practice (Houndmills, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 171 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 488 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-014 [PDF]  

Philip Gossett

Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky
David J. Levin, Unsettling Opera: Staging Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Zemlinsky (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 272 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 489 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-015 [PDF]  

Jeffrey F. Hamburger

Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror
Bruce Holsinger, Neomedievalism, Neoconservatism, and the War on Terror (Chicago: Prickly Paradigm, 2007), 117 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 489-490 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-016 [PDF]  

Giles Constable

The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West
Susan Wood, The Proprietary Church in the Medieval West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), xiii + 1020 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 490-491 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-017 [PDF]  

David A. Hollinger

William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism
Robert D. Richardson, William James in the Maelstrom of American Modernism (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006), 622 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 491-492 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-018 [PDF]  

Jeffrey M. Perl

My Unwritten Books
George Steiner, My Unwritten Books (New York: New Directions, 2008), 192 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 492-494 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-034 [PDF]  

Lorraine Daston

Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives
Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and M. Norton Wise, eds., Science without Laws: Model Systems, Cases, Exemplary Narratives (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 287 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 494 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-019 [PDF]  

Andrew Plaks

Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness
François Jullien, Vital Nourishment: Departing from Happiness, trans. Arthur Goldhammer (New York: Zone Books, 2007), 170 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 495 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-020 [PDF]  

Randy Malamud

Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution
Saleem H. Ali, ed., Peace Parks: Conservation and Conflict Resolution (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007), 406 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 495-496 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-021 [PDF]  

Mordechai Bar-On

Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine
David Shulman, Dark Hope: Working for Peace in Israel and Palestine (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 236 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 496-497 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-022 [PDF]  

Robert E. Lerner

Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence
Zachary Karabell, Peace Be upon You: The Story of Muslim, Christian, and Jewish Coexistence (New York: Knopf, 2007), 343 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 497-498 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-023 [PDF]  

David Konstan

War in Human Civilization
Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), 822 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 498 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-024 [PDF]  

William M. Chace

Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939
Mark Antliff, Avant-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909-1939 (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007), 352 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 499 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-025 [PDF]  

Charles R. Sullivan

The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution
John Shovlin, The Political Economy of Virtue: Luxury, Patriotism, and the Origins of the French Revolution (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006), 265 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 499-500 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-035 [PDF]  

William Weber

The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow
Gabriel Banat, The Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Virtuoso of the Sword and the Bow (Hillsdale, NY: Pendragon, 2006), 565 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 500-501 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-026 [PDF]  

Richard Jenkyns

James "Athenian" Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity
Susan Weber Soros, ed., James "Athenian" Stuart: The Rediscovery of Antiquity (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 688 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 501 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-027 [PDF]  

Barry Allen

Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow
Stanley Cavell, Philosophy the Day after Tomorrow (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005), 302 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 501-502 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-036 [PDF]  

Douglas Mao

On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word
Angela Leighton, On Form: Poetry, Aestheticism, and the Legacy of a Word (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 288 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 502 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-028 [PDF]  

John Boardman

Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C.
Oliver Taplin, Pots and Plays: Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century B.C. (Los Angeles: Getty, 2007), 310 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 503 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-029 [PDF]  

Susan Stephens

Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture
Jean Bingen, Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, ed. and intro. Roger Bagnall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 302 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 503-504 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-030 [PDF]  

Richard A. Shweder

Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations
João Biehl, Byron Good, and Arthur Kleinman, eds., Subjectivity: Ethnographic Investigations (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007), 464 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 504-505 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-031 [PDF]  

Barry Allen

The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals
Adi Ophir, The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals, trans. Rela Mazali and Havi Carel (New York: Zone Books, 2005), 699 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 505 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-037 [PDF]  

Avner Offer

Planet of Slums
Mike Davis, Planet of Slums (London: Verso, 2006), 228 pp.
Common Knowledge 14(3): 506 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-032 [PDF]  

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 14(3): 507-511 (2008); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-14-3-507 [PDF]  

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