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Common Knowledge Volume 16 Issue 3

Subject Areas: Literature and Literary Theory
Publisher: Duke Univ Press - Duke University Press
ISSN: 0961-754X
SJR: 13

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Epstein, Mikhail

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-001

In this guest column, Epstein offers "a new sign" that, he argues, resolves difficulties that have arisen in many theories and practices, including linguistics, semiotics, literary theory, poetics, aesthetics, ecology, ecophilology, eco-ethics, metaphysics, theology, psychology, and...
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CAN I DRIVE MY CAR FROM ITS FORM TO ITS MOVEMENT?

Bourbon, Brett

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-002

The academic dominance of cultural studies and the increasing interest and significance of cultural conflict in our world has encouraged various theories of culture, the most pervasive being theories of transculture and hybrid cultural forms and entities. In this guest column, Bourbon argues that...
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Introduction: Vanishing into Things

Allen, Barry; Faure, Bernard; Raz, Jacob; Magee, Glenn Alexander; Verbin, N.; Ofer, Dalia; Pryce, Elaine; King, Amy M.

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-003

Introducing the sixth and final installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," Allen looks at the symposium retrospectively and concludes that it has mainly concerned "sage knowledge," defined as foresight into the development of situations. The sagacious knower sees the...
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IN THE QUIET OF THE MONASTERY: Buddhist Controversies over Quietism

Faure, Bernard

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-004

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article addresses a) the extent to which the familiar term "Buddhist quietism" is legitimate, b) the use of the term by Jesuit missionaries in Asia at the time that Catholic quietism was briefly...
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"KILL THE BUDDHA": Quietism in Action and Quietism as Action in Zen Buddhist Thought and Practice

Raz, Jacob

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-005

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article proposes that, despite endless debates within Zen Buddhism between quietist tendencies ("sitting quietly, doing nothing") and the instruction to act in the world ("go wash the dishes"),...
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QUIETISM IN GERMAN MYSTICISM AND PHILOSOPHY

Magee, Glenn Alexander

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-006

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article argues that a strong strain of quietism runs through German intellectual history, from medieval mystics such as Eckhart to the main line of modern philosophers, including Kant, Fichte,...
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THE LADDER AND THE CAGE: Wittgenstein, Qoheleth, and Quietism

Verbin, N.

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-007

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article compares the worldview of Qoheleth (Ecclesiastes) and the quietism that it presumably entails to the early Wittgenstein's worldview and his quietism. The first section of the article...
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VICTIMS, FIGHTERS, SURVIVORS: Quietism and Activism in Israeli Historical Consciousness

Ofer, Dalia

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-008

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article reflects on the challenges that understanding the Holocaust posed for Jews in Palestine and has posed for them in Israel. Ofer concentrates on the images of victims, fighters, and...
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"NEGATIVE TO A MARKED DEGREE" OR "AN INTENSE AND GLOWING FAITH"?: Rufus Jones and Quaker Quietism

Pryce, Elaine

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-009

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article focuses on the early-twentieth-century Quaker historian and philosopher of mysticism, Rufus Jones, who treated Quietism as in polar opposition to the work of Quakerism "here in this...
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QUIETISM AND NARRATIVE STILLNESS

King, Amy M.

2010 Common Knowledge

doi:10.1215/0961754X-2010-010

A contribution to the sixth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Apology for Quietism," this article explores the possibilities for quietist narrative. Since quietism suggests resistance or condescension to telos, suspense, will, and the kinds of spirituality, politics, and ways of...

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