Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10333059
Caryl Emerson
O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 3 0 attempt to understand political violence in a particular time and place as justifying terrorism always and anywhere, honest biographers have no choice but to try to explain why their subjects made the choices they did. In this context, Alexandrov’s judicious treatment of Savinkov’s argument that, given the political realities of tsarist Russia, violence could be a moral response to evil is especially valuable. The paradox of Savinkov and the other “moral terrorists” discussed in To Break Russia’s Chains is that they justified targeted violence against prominent politicians and influential bureaucrats without rejecting the fifth commandment. According to their reasoning, assassination could be a moral act if the victim was responsible for brutal and unjust policies and if the perpetrator accepted punishment for what was, without question, a sin. Given the reality of tsarist arbitrary rule, the absence of any legal avenues to protest unjust policies, and the terrorists’ belief that inaction meant complicity in a criminal regime, their conclusion that violence and inevitable punishment was the only moral choice is neither incomprehensible nor illogical. Whatever one thinks of Savinkov’s personality and methods, and despite his ultimate failure to achieve his goal, there is something undeniably heroic in his devoting his entire adult life to the struggle against the forces of political tyranny in his homeland. Today, when fantasies of redemptive violence have become a staple of the daily news cycle, Savinkov’s story is particularly relevant. — Anthony Anemone doi 10.1215/0961754X-10333045
在试图将某一特定时间和地点的政治暴力理解为任何时候、任何地方的恐怖主义的正当理由时，诚实的传记作家别无选择，只能试图解释为什么他们的主人公做出了他们所做的选择。在这种背景下，亚历山德罗夫对萨文科夫的论点的明智处理尤其有价值，萨文科夫认为，鉴于沙皇俄国的政治现实，暴力可能是对邪恶的道德反应。《打破俄罗斯的枷锁》一书中讨论的萨文科夫和其他“道德恐怖分子”的悖论在于，他们为针对著名政治家和有影响力的官僚的针对性暴力辩护，却没有拒绝第五诫。根据他们的推理，如果受害者对残酷和不公正的政策负有责任，如果行凶者接受毫无疑问是一种罪行的惩罚，暗杀可能是一种道德行为。鉴于沙皇专制统治的现实，缺乏任何法律途径来抗议不公正的政策，以及恐怖分子认为不作为意味着与犯罪政权共谋，他们认为暴力和不可避免的惩罚是唯一的道德选择，这既不是不可理解的，也不是不合逻辑的。无论人们如何看待萨文科夫的个性和方法，尽管他最终未能实现自己的目标，但他将整个成年生活都投入到反对祖国政治暴政的斗争中，这无疑是一种英雄主义。今天，当救赎性暴力的幻想已经成为每日新闻周期的主要内容时，萨文科夫的故事尤为重要。- Anthony Anemone doi 10.1215/0961754X-10333045
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10332877
C. Bynum
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10332989
P. Stephenson
chapters focus on that time period, leaving the reader interested in learning more about its place in the early modern period, though the editor does take care to include chapters relating to this period as well. Particularly interesting for bridging the gap between the Middle Ages and modernity is Ann W. Astell’s chapter, “The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx’s Liturgical Preaching,” which analyzes the almost utter disappearance of the Song of Songs from modern Christian lectionaries and preaching, pointing to Aelred of Rievaulx as a model of “preaching ‘from’ the Song,” which can overcome the difficulties attendant on preaching about the Song of Songs in modernity (162). This volume will serve as an excellent resource both to those seeking an introduction to the reception of the Song of Songs and those who are intimately familiar with its reception.
章节集中在那个时期，让读者有兴趣了解更多关于它在早期现代时期的地位，尽管编辑也很小心地包括了与这个时期有关的章节。尤其有趣的是，安·w·阿斯特尔(Ann W. Astell)的一章“《里瓦克斯的礼仪讲道》中的《雅歌》(the Song of Rievaulx’s Liturgical Preaching)”弥合了中世纪与现代之间的鸿沟，分析了《雅歌》在现代基督教讲道和讲道中几乎完全消失的原因，指出《里瓦克斯的雅歌》是“从《雅歌》中讲道”的典范，它可以克服在现代性中讲道《雅歌》所伴随的困难(162)。这本书将作为一个极好的资源，既为那些寻求一个介绍，以接受的歌和那些谁是非常熟悉它的接待。
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10332775
S. Fuller
Richard Rorty is easily cast as the intellectual godfather of our post-truth condition. But unlike Nicholas Gaskill, whose article in Common Knowledge 28, no. 3, has engendered a continuing symposium in the journal, Professor Fuller sees Rorty's role as being to his credit rather than detriment. Rorty extended W. B. Gallie's idea of “essentially contested concepts” from the moral and political spheres to the epistemic, thereby rendering such terms as truth, reason, and evidence inherently vague, which means that they are defined not a priori but only in the context of exemplary concrete cases. Doing so invariably results in a “redescription” of what is observed that explains the “meta” level of understanding that philosophy brings to whatever it discusses. In this sense, all that the post-truth condition does is turn everyone into a philosopher.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10332863
Thibault De Meyer
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Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10332919
Roi Tartakovsky
{"title":"Duchamp Is My Lawyer: The Polemics, Pragmatics, and Poetics of UbuWeb","authors":"Roi Tartakovsky","doi":"10.1215/0961754x-10332919","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-10332919","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45679,"journal":{"name":"Common Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45336831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10333003
Simon Goldhill
{"title":"The First Pagan Historian: The Fortunes of a Fraud from Antiquity to the Enlightenment by Frederic Clark (review)","authors":"Simon Goldhill","doi":"10.1215/0961754x-10333003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-10333003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45679,"journal":{"name":"Common Knowledge","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48895642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-10046572
O. Harman
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