SYMPOSIUM

   Apology for Quietism: A Sotto Voce Symposium Part 1

Jeffrey M. Perl, Paul J. Griffiths, G. R. Evans, and Clark Davis

Introduction: "More Trouble than They Are Worth"
Common Knowledge 15(1): 1-6 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-038 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul J. Griffiths

THE QUIETUS OF POLITICAL INTEREST
Common Knowledge 15(1): 7-22 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-039 [Abstract] [PDF]  

G. R. Evans

SANCTA INDIFFERENTIA AND ADIAPHORA: "Holy Indifference" and "Things Indifferent"
Common Knowledge 15(1): 23-38 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-040 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Clark Davis

"NOT LIKE ANY FORM OF ACTIVITY": Waiting in Emerson, Melville, and Weil
Common Knowledge 15(1): 39-58 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-041 [Abstract] [PDF]  

FICTION

Hermynia Zur Mühlen

THE RED COUNTESS: Four Stories
Translated with an introduction and notes by Lionel Gossman
Common Knowledge 15(1): 59-91 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-042 [PDF]  

LITTLE REVIEWS

J. M. Coetzee

An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions
Daniel Defoe, An Essay on the History and Reality of Apparitions, ed. Kit Kincade (New York: AMS Press, 2007), 573 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(1): 92-93 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2008-043 [PDF]  

Marjorie Perloff

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice
Janet Malcolm, Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 229 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(1): 93-95 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2008-044 [PDF]  

Sissela Bok

Forgiveness: A Philosophical Explanation
Charles L. Griswold, Forgiveness: A Philosophical Explanation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 242 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(1): 95-96 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2008-045 [PDF]  

Natalie Zemon Davis

The Politics of the Veil
Joan Wallach Scott, The Politics of the Veil (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 208 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(1): 96 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2008-046 [PDF]  

WAR MEMOIR

Alick Isaacs

LEBANON II
Common Knowledge 15(1): 97-153 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-047 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 15(1): 154-155 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-15-1-154 [PDF]  

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