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    Introduction: “The First Duty of Grown, Thinking People”.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2022 - Common Knowledge 28 (2):206-215.
    In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge introduces a long-term project titled “Antipolitics: Symposium in Memory of György Konrád.” Konrád, who died in 2019, was a founding member of the Common Knowledge editorial board, and the symposium is meant to find present-day applications for the arguments of his book Antipolitics, published in 1982 in Hungarian. Although written under Cold War conditions and to that extent dated, the book is directed against politics and politicians as such: “What Machiavelli's Prince is (...)
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    Regarding Change at Ise Jingū.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2019 - Common Knowledge 25 (1-3):220-232.
    This essay introduces the second of three installments of an “elegiac symposium” in Common Knowledge on figures and concepts devalued in what Thomas Kuhn refers to as “paradigm shifts.” The essay suggests that Kuhn’s idea is provincial, in three specified senses, and then goes on to show how differently Japanese culture regards and manages major change. The author of this introduction, who is also the journal’s editor, begins by evaluating a triptych of 1895 by Toshikata as a response to the (...)
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    Introduction.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2020 - Common Knowledge 26 (3):441-452.
    In this introduction to Part 1 of “Contextualism—the Next Generation: Symposium on the Future of a Methodology,” the editor of Common Knowledge, a “journal of left-wing Kuhnian opinion,” reports that the new symposium responds to contextualist criticism of the previous CK symposium, which was on xenophilia. The content of the earlier symposium met with objections, from contextualists, on the grounds of methodology, and the new symposium questions the methodology of contextualism for the limits that it places on content as well (...)
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    Xenophilia, Difference, and Indifference.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2018 - Common Knowledge 24 (2):234-238.
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    Introduction: Antipolitics or Antinomianism?Jeffrey M. Perl - 2023 - Common Knowledge 29 (3):317-323.
    In this introduction to part 3 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” the journal's editor argues that, apart from sortition, the best guarantees of safety in a democracy are, first, to augment judicial oversight of all political processes and, second, to exclude politicians from the process of selecting judges. “There can never be too much judicial interference,” he writes, “in what politicians regard as their domain.” The author reached this conclusion during attempts by the newly elected Israeli government, in the (...)
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    Hong Kong: Wake-Up Call.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2020 - Common Knowledge 26 (2):197-211.
    In this piece, the editor of Common Knowledge offers excerpts from his two-year correspondence with a reader in Hong Kong, who was drawn to arguments made in the journal about maintaining “quietism and resistance in the face of vile behavior.” In the summer and fall of 2019, during the insurrection in Hong Kong, his correspondent shifts rapidly from taking comfort in CK’s defense of quietism to a full embrace of “uncivil disobedience.” She implies that the solidarity the editor expresses with (...)
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    Suffocation in the Polis.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2019 - Common Knowledge 25 (1-3):332-338.
    This introduction to the third and final part of the Common Knowledge symposium “Unsocial Thought, Uncommon Lives” is reprinted here in a special issue of representative pieces from the journal’s first twenty-five years. The title is taken from an article by Isaiah Berlin in CK. Perl’s essay argues against the Aristotelian presumption that “man is a social animal” and explains that the CK symposium on unsocial thought was meant to substantiate that “societies do as a rule smother instinctive behaviors, but (...)
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    Solitary Confinement: Social Death and Its Afterlives.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2013 - Common Knowledge 21 (2):331-332.
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    The Living Death of Antiquity: Neoclassical Aesthetics.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2024 - Common Knowledge 30 (1):134-136.
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    Introduction.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2018 - Common Knowledge 24 (1):26-34.
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    Civilian scholarship.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):1-6.
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    The Hidden Advantage of Tradition: On the Significance of T. S. Eliot's Indic Studies.Jeffrey M. Perl & Andrew P. Tuck - 1985 - Philosophy East and West 35 (2):115-131.
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    Introduction: Coherent Mixtures.Jeffrey M. Perl, Noa Halevy, Edith Bruder & Jamie Gilham - 2017 - Common Knowledge 23 (3):396-403.
    In his introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, the journal's editor tours the reader through two private apartments and through two public art collections in an effort to establish that aesthetically coherent mixtures of apparently immiscible objects from widely divergent cultures are possible and also morally glamorous. Xenophobia at its least reprehensible, he argues, is a fear of ecumenism and its consequences, as well as a fear of one's own conversion — of “turning Turk.” Xenophilia (...)
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    Introduction: Self-Identity and Ambivalence.Jeffrey M. Perl, Humberto Garcia, Noa Halevy & Peter Valdina - 2017 - Common Knowledge 23 (2):225-231.
    In this introduction to the first installment of the Common Knowledge symposium on xenophilia, the editor explains the rationale of the new project, citing increases in aggressive xenophobia internationally. He comments on the intergroup-relations theorist Todd Pittinsky's argument that, since tolerance is not logically the antithesis of negative feelings toward out-groups, even long-established traditions of toleration are inadequate to prevent intergroup aggression. Pittinsky proposes that tolerance be replaced, as a principle of peacekeeping, by the encouragement of positive feelings toward out-groups, (...)
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    Introduction: Regarding change at ise jingū.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2008 - Common Knowledge 14 (2):208-220.
  16. Introduction: Historiography and Melodrama.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2005 - Common Knowledge 11 (3):370-374.
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    Books in My LifeAmerican Publishing History: The Tanselle Collection.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2023 - Common Knowledge 29 (2):241-242.
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    In This Issue.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2014 - Common Knowledge 20 (2):197-203.
    This essay, by the editor of Common Knowledge, comprises the introduction to an issue of the journal dedicated to experiments in scholarly form and to discussion of them. He explains the choice of articles and other pieces in the issue on the basis of their contributions either as experiments themselves or as discussions of experimental principles. The introduction itself contributes to the latter by suggesting a distinction between “triumphalist” and “defeatist” calls for poets and fiction writers to do the work (...)
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    (1 other version)Preface to an introduction.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2004 - Common Knowledge 10 (3):426-429.
  20. Time for Outrage!Jeffrey M. Perl - 2012 - Common Knowledge 18 (2):381-381.
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    Reintroduction: “The Rorty Shrug”.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2023 - Common Knowledge 29 (1):21-24.
    In this brief introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Whatever Happened to Richard Rorty?” the journal’s editor asks why Rorty was dependent on Thomas Kuhn, rather than Paul Feyerabend or the then-rising stars of “science studies” (such as Bruno Latour), for science-centered arguments to support his own philosophical neopragmatism. The editor cites a letter from Rorty sent to him in the early 1990s, suggesting that the differences between Feyerabend and himself were temperamental more than philosophical. Rorty enjoyed (...)
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    (1 other version)Fuzzy studies a symposium on the consequence of blur part 1.Jeffrey M. Perl, Natalie Zemon Davis & Barry Allen - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (3):441-449.
    In this introduction to Part 1 of the Common Knowledge symposium, “Fuzzy Studies,” the journal's editor discusses four essays from the 1980s by Richard Rorty, in which Rorty chose to associate himself with various neopragmatists, Continental thinkers, and “left-wing Kuhnians” under the rubric of the “new fuzziness.” The term had been introduced as an insult by a philosopher of science with positivist leanings, but Rorty took it up as an “endearing” compliment, arguing that “to be less fuzzy” was also to (...)
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    Introduction: De-differentiation.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2012 - Common Knowledge 18 (3):419-432.
    In this introduction to part three of the Common Knowledge symposium “Fuzzy Studies: On the Consequence of Blur,” the journal’s editor argues that blur is not a medium of concealment, confusion, or evasion. Making distinctions between kinds of relative unclarity, he reserves the word blur for the kind that results from de-differentiating objects or qualities or states of affairs whose differences have been overstated. To refine what blur is and is not, he compares kinds of unclarity found in images by (...)
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    Introduction: Idées Fixes and Fausses Idées Claires.Mikhail Epstein & Jeffrey M. Perl - 2013 - Common Knowledge 19 (2):217-223.
    This essay, coauthored by the editor and a member of the editorial board of Common Knowledge, introduces the fifth installment of the journal's symposium “Fuzzy Studies,” which is about the “consequence of blur.” Beginning with a review of Enlightenment ideas about ideas — especially Descartes's argument that a mind “unclouded and attentive” can be “wholly freed from doubt” (Rules III, 5) — this essay then turns to assess the validity of counter-Enlightenment arguments, mostly Russian but also anglophone and French, against (...)
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    Conference working group recommendations.Caroline Walker Bynum, Clifford Geertz, Sari Nusseibeh, Robert Weisbuch, Israel Jacob Yuval, Philip Glotzbach, Alick Isaacs, Lawrence Jones, Cason Lynley & Jeffrey M. Perl - 2006 - Common Knowledge 12 (1):13-15.
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    On Cultivation (2002, 2023).Natalie Zemon Davis & Jeffrey M. Perl - 2024 - Common Knowledge 30 (2):149-151.
    Half of this piece appeared under the title “Postscript on Cultivation: Editorial Note” in Common Knowledge 8, no. 2 (spring 2002), and half was written in 2023 by one of the coauthors as a posthumous tribute to the other. The historian Natalie Zemon Davis died on the fourteenth day of the latest war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. The relevance of “Postscript,” which was written following the attacks by al-Qaeda in the United States on September 11, 2001, is that (...)
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    Peace and Mind: Seriatim Symposium on Dispute, Conflict, and Enmity.Alick Isaacs, Randall Collins, Bruno Latour, Peter Burke, G. Thomas Tanselle, Alexander Goehr, Anne Carson, Marcel Detienne, Daniel Herwitz, Frank R. Ankersmit, Vicki Hearne, Jeffrey M. Perl & Elizabeth Key Fowden - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):20-23.
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    (1 other version)Postscript on Method: Editorial Note.Alick Isaacs & Jeffrey M. Perl - 2002 - Common Knowledge 8 (1):147-151.
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    A Dictatorship of Relativism?: Symposium in Response to Cardinal Ratzinger’s Last Homily.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2007 - Duke University Press.
    In the last homily he gave before becoming Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger described modern life as ruled by a “dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely” of satisfying “the desires of one’s own ego.” An eminent scholar familiar with the centuries-old debates over relativism, Ratzinger chose to oversimplify or even caricature a philosophical approach of great sophistication and antiquity. His homily depicts the relativist as someone blown about “by every (...)
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    (1 other version)Apology for quietism a sotto voce symposium part 4.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2010 - Common Knowledge 16 (1):22-30.
    In this introduction to the fourth part of an ongoing symposium on quietism, Perl, the editor of the sponsoring journal Common Knowledge, remarks on a new question raised in this latest grouping of articles. Can there be such a thing as a “mezza voce quietism”? Can there be activist quietists or quietist activists or active teachers of quietism without self-contradiction? Perl takes Gandhi and “passive resistance” as his own test case, concluding that Gandhi was a teacher of quietism and that (...)
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    (1 other version)A Pelican in the Wilderness: Hermits, Solitaries, and Recluses.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2003 - Common Knowledge 9 (3):552-553.
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    Afterword to an introduction.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2005 - Common Knowledge 11 (1):18-21.
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    Blindfolded.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2022 - Common Knowledge 28 (1):66-142.
    In a monograph-length contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium on contextualism, the journal's editor decontextualizes and then recontextualizes the medieval iconographic trope of Ecclesia and Synagoga in an effort to make plausible a news story about Pope Francis that received little coverage in the press. During 2015, the fiftieth anniversary of the Vatican II declaration Nostra Aetate, Francis paid a surprise visit to a new statue in the United States, “Synagoga and Ecclesia in Our Time” by Joshua Koffman, as a (...)
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    Between text and performance symposium on improvisation and originalism.Jeffrey M. Perl, Philip Gossett, Robert Levin, Jeffrey Kallberg, Steven E. Jones, Martin Puchner, Tiffany Stern, Mark Franko & Roger Moseley - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (2):221-230.
    This essay introduces a Common Knowledge symposium on the relationship between texts (for instance, musical scores or dramatic scripts) and performance in the arts by drawing out its implications for the interpretation of publicly consequential texts (such as constitutions, legal statutes, and canon law). Arguing that judges and clerics could learn much from studying the work of Philip Gossett and other practitioners of textual criticism in the arts, the essay suggests that a wider array of choices exists for legal interpretation (...)
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    Beyond Xenophilia.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2020 - Common Knowledge 26 (1):65-87.
    This essay, by the editor of Common Knowledge, responds to a piece by Dionigi Albera that, in turn, responds to Jeffrey Perl’s introduction, published in May 2017, to CK’s multipart symposium on xenophilia. Albera argues that the ambivalence that Perl observes in many instances of xenophilia needs genealogical explanation, and Albera turns for this purpose to analysis of the relationship between Aphrodite and Ares in Greco-Roman mythology. In the present piece, Perl extends that exploration in analysis of a series of (...)
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    Classical Art: A Life History from Antiquity to the Present.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2022 - Common Knowledge 28 (3):464-466.
    To write a history “from antiquity to the present” of classical art or literature (or, worst of all, classicism) is the ultimate nightmare aspiration for a scholar whose colleagues are attentive methodologists. The product, when there is one (which I add because the aspiration can yield paralysis), is always in part an apologetic treatise on historical method. Professor Vout—of Christ's College, Cambridge—apologizes with the first word of her subtitle, A, which stresses that many differing histories may be as valid as (...)
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    Choosing Peace: The Catholic Church Returns to Gospel Nonviolence ed. by Marie Dennis.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2021 - Common Knowledge 27 (1):112-113.
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    “Decorate the Dungeon”: A Dialogue in Place of an Introduction.Jeffrey M. Perl, Colin Richmond, Abdulaziz Sachedina, Branka Arsić & Anonymous Envoi - 2010 - Common Knowledge 16 (2):223-232.
    In the place of an introduction to part 5 of the Common Knowledge symposium on forms of quietism, the journal's editor and one of its longtime columnists discuss, in dialogue format, the case of Thomas More. Could he have evaded martyrdom at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell? One discussant argues that More could not have done so without contemptibly abandoning his principles and surrendering fully to despotism. The other discussant disagrees, suggesting that More had to abandon some (...)
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    Hugh Kenner.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2004 - Common Knowledge 10 (3):371-376.
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    Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2011 - Common Knowledge 17 (1):189-191.
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    Introduction: A Brighter Past.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2003 - Common Knowledge 9 (2):199-203.
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    Introduction: A Caveat on Caveats.Jeffrey M. Perl, Christian B. N. Gade, Rane Willerslev, Lotte Meinert, Beverly Haviland, Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Daniel Grausam, Daniel McKay & Michiko Urita - 2015 - Common Knowledge 21 (3):399-405.
    In this introduction to part 4 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means,” the journal's editor assesses the argument made by Peace, the spokesperson of Erasmus in his Querela Pacis, that the desire to impute and avenge wrongs against oneself is insatiable and at the root of both individual and social enmities. He notes that, in a symposium about how to resolve and prevent enmity, most contributions have to date expressed caveats about how justice and truth must take (...)
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    Introduction: Bland Blur.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2013 - Common Knowledge 19 (3):411-423.
    This essay, by the editor of Common Knowledge, introduces the sixth and final installment of “Fuzzy Studies,” the journal's “Symposium on the Consequence of Blur.” Suggesting that “Fuzzy Studies” should be understood in the context of a desultory campaign against zeal conducted in the journal for almost twenty years, he explains that the editors' assumption has been that any authentic case for the less adamant modes of thinking, or the less focused ways of seeing, needs to be unenthusiastic and carefully (...)
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    Introduction: Further trauma?Jeffrey M. Perl - 2006 - Common Knowledge 12 (1):34-35.
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    Introduction: Greco-Latin Findings.Jeffrey M. Perl, Sara Forsdyke, Colin Davis, Richard Ned Lebow & Yvonne Friedman - 2015 - Common Knowledge 21 (1):10-18.
    In this introduction to part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Peace by Other Means,” the journal's editor reflects on the difference between the contributions to parts 1 and 2. Whereas the first installment concentrated on ethnography, the second focuses on the peacemaking repertoire of the Greco-Latin tradition, whose basis is psychological. That tradition is characterized by its refusal of wishful thinking about human nature and, in particular, by its doubt about claims that human drives other than thumos — the (...)
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    Introduction: Implications of Ambivalence.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2003 - Common Knowledge 9 (1):37-41.
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    Introduction: Margin Release.Jeffrey M. Perl, Peter Burke & Colin Richmond - 2022 - Common Knowledge 28 (1):1-10.
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    Introduction: “More Trouble than They Are Worth”.Jeffrey M. Perl, Paul J. Griffiths, G. R. Evans & Clark Davis - 2009 - Common Knowledge 15 (1):1-6.
    This essay, which is the editor's introduction to part 1 of a multipart symposium on quietism, also constitutes his call for symposium papers. The symposium is meant be comprehensive. It is described as political and broadly cultural as well as religious, and in religious terms is said to cover not only the Catholic and Protestant quietisms (most properly so called) of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but also the proto-quietisms of the medieval Western church and reputedly quietist aspects of (...)
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    Impasse Or Interlude?Jeffrey M. Perl - 2018 - Common Knowledge 24 (3):474-482.
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    Introduction: Punctuation and boxing.Jeffrey M. Perl - 2003 - Common Knowledge 9 (3):394-398.
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