COLUMNS

Václav Havel and Adam Michnik

"THE PERIOD AFTER 1989"
Translated by Clare Cavanagh
Common Knowledge 15(3): 319-323 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-012 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Aidan O'Neill

NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR (AND -FIVE): A Brit Looks Back
Common Knowledge 15(3): 324-330 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-013 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Greil Marcus

1968
Common Knowledge 15(3): 331-335 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-014 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Colin Richmond

1509
Common Knowledge 15(3): 336-339 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-015 [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYMPOSIUM

   Apology for Quietism: A Sotto Voce Symposium Part 3

Jeffrey M. Perl, A. W. Price, John McDowell, Matthew A. Taylor, Caleb Thompson, and Douglas Mao

Introduction: The Promise of Apathy
Common Knowledge 15(3): 340-347 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-016 [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. W. Price

INTUITIONS OF FITTINGNESS
Common Knowledge 15(3): 348-364 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-017 [Abstract] [PDF]  

John McDowell

WITTGENSTEINIAN "QUIETISM"
Common Knowledge 15(3): 365-372 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-018 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Matthew A. Taylor

THE "PHANTASMODESTY" OF HENRY ADAMS
Common Knowledge 15(3): 373-394 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-019 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Caleb Thompson

QUIETISM FROM THE SIDE OF HAPPINESS: Tolstoy, Schopenhauer, War and Peace
Common Knowledge 15(3): 395-411 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-020 [Abstract] [PDF]  

Douglas Mao

THE LACK OF REPOSE
Common Knowledge 15(3): 412-437 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-021 [Abstract] [PDF]  

POETRY AND FICTION

José Kozer

SIX POEMS
Translations by David Frye
Common Knowledge 15(3): 438-467 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-022 [PDF]  

Javier Marías

FROM POISON, SHADOW, AND FAREWELL
Translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Common Knowledge 15(3): 468-471 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-023 [PDF]  

ARTICLE

Dominique Garand

Misunderstanding: A Typology of Performance
Translated by Kevin B. Shelton
Common Knowledge 15(3): 472-500 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-024 [Abstract] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

   Little Reviews

Josiah Ober

What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship
Loren Samons II, What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004), 327 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 501 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-025 [PDF]  

Stanley N. Katz

The Declaration of Independence: A Global History
David Armitage, The Declaration of Independence: A Global History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007), 320 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 501-502 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-026 [PDF]  

Stanley N. Katz

Nongovernmental Politics
Michel Feher, ed., Nongovernmental Politics (New York: Zone Books, 2007), 672 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 503 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-027 [PDF]  

John Boardman

The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece
Yannis Hamilakis, The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and National Imagination in Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 352 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 503-504 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-028 [PDF]  

Peter Burke

Europe between the Oceans, 9000 BC - AD 1000
Barry Cunliffe, Europe between the Oceans, 9000 BC - AD 1000 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2008), 518 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 504-505 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-029 [PDF]  

Andrew P. Tuck

Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika
Tsong Khapa, Ocean of Reasoning: A Great Commentary on Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, trans. Geshe Ngawang Samten and Jay L. Garfield (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006), 632 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 505 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-030 [PDF]  

Caryl Emerson

Soul and Other Stories
Andrey Platonov, Soul and Other Stories, trans. Robert Chandler and Elizabeth Chandler (New York: New York Review of Books, 2007), 335 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 506 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-031 [PDF]  

Mikhail Epstein

The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia
Orlando Figes, The Whisperers: Private Life in Stalin's Russia (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2007), 740 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 506-507 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-032 [PDF]  

Michael Fagenblat

The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage
Marlène Zarader, The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), 255 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 507-508 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-033 [PDF]  

David Konstan

Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur
Ben Kiernan, Blood and Soil: A World History of Genocide and Extermination from Sparta to Darfur (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 724 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 508 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-034 [PDF]  

Alick Isaacs

Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe
James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation of Modern Europe (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008), 304 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 509 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-035 [PDF]  

Denis Donoghue

The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary
Robert Alter, The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (New York: W. W. Norton, 2007), 518 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 509-510 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-036 [PDF]  

David Cannadine

Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid
Daniel Martin Varisco, Reading Orientalism: Said and the Unsaid (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007), 501 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 510 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-037 [PDF]  

Don Seeman

Postcolonial Disorders
Mary-Jo Delvecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde, Sarah Pinto, and Byron J. Good, eds., Postcolonial Disorders (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), 480 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 510-511 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-038 [PDF]  

Prasenjit Duara

Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle between East and West
Anthony Pagden, Worlds at War: The 2,500 Year Struggle between East and West (New York: Random House, 2008), 656 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 511 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-039 [PDF]  

Simone Roberts

Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond
Tina Chang, Nathalie Handal, and Ravi Shankar, eds., Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and Beyond (New York: W. W. Norton, 2008), 734 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 512 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-040 [PDF]  

Wolfgang G. Schwanitz

For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia
Robert D. Crews, For Prophet and Tsar: Islam and Empire in Russia and Central Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), 463 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 512-513 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-041 [PDF]  

William M. Chace

EIMI: A Journey through Soviet Russia
e. e. cummings, EIMI: A Journey through Soviet Russia, ed. George J. Firmage (New York: Liveright, 2007), 384 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 514 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-042 [PDF]  

David Bromwich

New Writings of William Hazlitt
New Writings of William Hazlitt, ed. Duncan Wu, 2 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 672 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 514 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-043 [PDF]  

Philip Gossett

The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms
William Weber, The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Brahms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), 334 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 515 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-044 [PDF]  

William Weber

W. A. Mozart
Hermann Abert, W. A. Mozart, trans. Stewart Spencer, ed. Cliff Eisen (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 1515 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 515-516 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-045 [PDF]  

James Trilling

The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton, The Architecture of Happiness (New York: Pantheon, 2006), 280 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 516 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-046 [PDF]  

Barry Allen

A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression
Howard Risatti, A Theory of Craft: Function and Aesthetic Expression (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), 327 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 517 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-047 [PDF]  

Richard Jenkyns

The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture
Craig Kallendorf, The Other Virgil: "Pessimistic" Readings of the Aeneid in Early Modern Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 280 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 517-518 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-048 [PDF]  

Belle Randall

Rumble, Young Man, Rumble
Benjamin Cavell, Rumble, Young Man, Rumble (New York: Vintage, 2003), 191 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 518 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-049 [PDF]  

Susan Stephens

Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece
Joan Breton Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007), 415 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 518-519 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-050 [PDF]  

William Tronzo

The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance
Christopher MacEvitt, The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 272 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 519-520 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-051 [PDF]  

Miguel Tamen

Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science
Lorraine Daston, ed., Things That Talk: Object Lessons from Art and Science (New York: Zone Books, 2004), 250 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 520-521 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-052 [PDF]  

G. Thomas Tanselle

Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England
William H. Sherman, Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), 279 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 521-522 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754x-2009-053 [PDF]  

Wayne Andersen

DEPRESSION: Financial, Post-manic, and Floral
Anne Goldgar, Tulipmania: Money, Honor, and Knowledge in the Dutch Golden Age (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007), 426 pp.
Common Knowledge 15(3): 523-532 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-2009-054 [Abstract] [PDF]  

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Notes on Contributors
Common Knowledge 15(3): 533-538 (2009); DOI:10.1215/0961754X-15-3-533 [PDF]  

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