SYMPOSIUM

   Apology for Quietism: A Sotto Voce Symposium Part 2

Jeffrey M. Perl, Mita Choudhury, Lesley Chamberlain, Andrea R. Jain, and Jeffrey J. Kripal

Introduction: "The Need for Repose"
Common Knowledge 15(2): 157-163 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-055 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mita Choudhury

A BETRAYAL OF TRUST: The Jesuits and Quietism in Eighteenth-Century France
Common Knowledge 15(2): 164-180 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-056 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lesley Chamberlain

QUIETISM AND POLEMIC: A Dialectical Story
Common Knowledge 15(2): 181-196 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-048 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrea R. Jain and Jeffrey J. Kripal

QUIETISM AND KARMA: Non-Action as Non-Ethics in Jain Asceticism
Common Knowledge 15(2): 197-207 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-049 [Abstract] [PDF]  

LITTLE REVIEWS

Caroline Walker Bynum

Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination
Aviad Kleinberg, Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination, trans. Jane Marie Todd (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), 352 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 208-209 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-050 [PDF]  

J. G. A. Pocock

A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century
John Burrow, A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles, Romances, and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century (London: Allen Lane, 2007), 576 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 209-210 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-051 [PDF]  

Joseph Frank

Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal
Rob Riemen, Nobility of Spirit: A Forgotten Ideal, trans. Marjolijn de Jager (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 115 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 210-212 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-052 [PDF]  

Stanley N. Katz

Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights
Bill Ivey, Arts, Inc.: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 342 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 212-213 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-053 [PDF]  

Michael Cook

Russia's Islamic Threat
Gordon M. Hahn, Russia's Islamic Threat (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 349 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 213-214 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-054 [PDF]  

Maud W. Gleason

Stoicism and Emotion
Margaret R. Graver, Stoicism and Emotion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 289 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 214-215 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-057 [PDF]  

Philip Gossett

Song and Season: Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice
Eleanor Selfridge-Field, Song and Season: Science, Culture, and Theatrical Time in Early Modern Venice (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), 400 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 215-216 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-058 [PDF]  

Alexander Nehamas

Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960
Douglas Mao, Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile Development, and Literature, 1860-1960 (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008), 332 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 216 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-059 [PDF]  

G. Thomas Tanselle

Books: A Memoir
Larry McMurtry, Books: A Memoir (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2008), 259 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 217-218 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-060 [PDF]  

Michael Fagenblat

Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein
Hilary Putnam, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 121 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 218 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-067 [PDF]  

Bruce Krajewski

The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat
Santiago Zabala, The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), 199 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 219 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-061 [PDF]  

Barry Allen

Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry
Gloria Davies, Worrying about China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 312 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(2): 219-220 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-062 [PDF]  

POETRY AND FICTION

Haizi

FROM LEGEND
Translated by Gerald Maa
Common Knowledge 15(2): 221-223 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-064 [PDF]  

Gábor Németh

FROM JEWISH ARE YOU?
Translated by Tim Wilkinson
Common Knowledge 15(2): 224-228 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-063 [PDF]  

ARTICLES

   Humility and Religious law

Alick Isaacs

THE HUMILITY OF HYPOCRISY: On the Irenic Illiberalism of Jewish Law
Common Knowledge 15(2): 229-268 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-065 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Aidan O'Neill

ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND THE TEMPTATION OF SHARI'A
Common Knowledge 15(2): 269-315 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2008-066 [Abstract] [PDF]  

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 15(2): 316-318 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-15-2-316 [PDF]  

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