COLUMNS

   On The New Country

Mikhail Epstein

CHRONOCIDE: Prologue to the Resurrection of Time
Translated by Edward Skidelsky
Common Knowledge 9(2): 186-198 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-186 [PDF]  

SYMPOSIUM

   Peace and Mind: Seriatim Symposium on Dispute, Conflict, and Enmity. Part 5: Benefits of the Doubt

Jeffrey M. Perl

Introduction: A Brighter Past
Common Knowledge 9(2): 199-203 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-199 [PDF]  

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

TWO HUNDRED YEARS TOGETHER
Translated by Jamey Gambrell
Common Knowledge 9(2): 204-227 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-204 [PDF]  

Israel J. Yuval

THE SILENCE OF THE HISTORIAN AND THE INGENUITY OF THE STORYTELLER: Rabbi Amnon of Mayence and Esther Minna of Worms
Translated by Naomi Goldblum
Common Knowledge 9(2): 228-240 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-228 [PDF]  

Colin Davis

THE COST OF BEING ETHICAL: Fiction, Violence, and Altericide
Common Knowledge 9(2): 241-253 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-241 [PDF]  

Dale Kent

CHARITY AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE FLORENCE: Surmounting Cynicism in Historiography
Common Knowledge 9(2): 254-272 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-254 [PDF]  

Georges Didi-Huberman

ARTISTIC SURVIVAL: Panofsky vs. Warburg and the Exorcism of Impure Time
Translated by Vivian Rehberg and Boris Belay
Common Knowledge 9(2): 273-285 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-273 [PDF]  

Downing Thomas

CONDILLAC'S OTHER AMBITIONS: Scholarship after the Heyday of Heydays
Common Knowledge 9(2): 286-310 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-286 [PDF]  

POETRY

Charles Borkhuis

TWO POEMS
Common Knowledge 9(2): 311-317 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-311 [PDF]  

BOOK REVIEWS

   Replay

Val Vinokurov

LEVINAS'S DOSTOEVSKY: A Response to "Dostoevsky's Derrida"
Common Knowledge 9(2): 318-340 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-318 [PDF]  

LITTLE REVIEWS

Richard Rorty

Evil in Modern Thought: An Alternative History of Philosophy
Susan Neiman, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002), 358 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 341 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-341 [PDF]  

Marjorie Perloff

Bed Hangings
Susan Howe, with pictures by Susan Bee, (New York: Granary Press, 2001), 48 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 341-342 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-341-a [PDF]  

Linda Hutcheon

Collaborative Circles: Friendship Dynamics and Creative Work
Michael P. Farrell, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 328 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 343 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-343 [PDF]  

Robert B. Pippin

The Power of Intellectuals in Contemporary Germany
Michael Guyer, ed., (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001), 459 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 343 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-343-a [PDF]  

Mordechai Bar-On

Civil and Uncivil Violence in Lebanon
Samir Khalaf, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), 224 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 344 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-344 [PDF]  

Glenn Holland

Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe
Brad S. Gregory, Harvard Historical Studies, vol. 134 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999), 528 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 344 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-344-a [PDF]  

Joseph Frank

Dostoevsky the Thinker
James P. Scanlan, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002), 251 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 345 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-345 [PDF]  

Shira Wolosky

The Metaphysical Club
Louis Menand, (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002), 560 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 346 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-346 [PDF]  

Gadi Taub

Oliver Wendell Holmes and the Culture of Conversation
Peter Gibian, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 398 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 346 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-346-a [PDF]  

Caryl Emerson

Diplomacy and Murder in Tehran: Alexander Griboyedov and Imperial Russia's Mission to the Shah of Persia
Laurence Kelly, (London: Tauris, 2002), 314 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 347 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-347 [PDF]  

Gabriella Safran

The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage
Jeffrey Veidlinger, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2000), 432 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 347-348 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-347-a [PDF]  

Rebecca Bushnell

Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Helene P. Foley, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 410 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 348 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-348 [PDF]  

Donald Wesling

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions
Martha C. Nussbaum, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), 751 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 348-349 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-348-a [PDF]  

Anthony Rudd

The New Wittgenstein
Alice Crary and Rupert Read, eds., (London: Routledge, 2000), 403 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 349-350 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-349 [PDF]  

Andrew Gamble

Development as Freedom
Amartya Sen, (New York: Knopf, 2000), 366 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 350 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-350 [PDF]  

Michael P. Kramer

Religion and Cultural Studies
Susan L. Mizruchi, ed., (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001), 269 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 351 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-351 [PDF]  

Andrew Wachtel

Shakespeare and Eastern Europe
Zdenek Stribrny, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 192 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 351 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-351-a [PDF]  

Douglas R. Weiner

Einstein and Soviet Ideology
Alexander Vucinich, (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001), 291 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 352 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-352 [PDF]  

Charles Sullivan

From Reliable Sources: An Introduction to Historical Methods
Martha Howell and Walter Prevenier, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001), 207 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 352-353 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-352-a [PDF]  

Barry Allen

The Dawn of Human Culture
Richard G. Klein, with Blake Edgar, (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2002), 288 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 353 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-353 [PDF]  

Ruth Mazo Karras

The Paston Family in the Fifteenth Century: Endings
Colin Richmond, (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000), 344 pp.
Common Knowledge 9(2): 353-354 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-353-a [PDF]  

FICTION

Colin Richmond

BETWEEN WARS
Common Knowledge 9(2): 355-358 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-355 [PDF]  

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 9(2): 359-362 (2003); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-9-2-359 [PDF]  

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