Contains 12 essays originally published in three consecutive issues of Critical inquiry (Summer 1991 to Winter 1992), an essay by Mary Poovey, responses to the essays by various faculty members of the University of Chicago, and replies to the responses by the authors of the essays Includes bibliographical references and index Terry Castle: Contagious folly : An adventure and its skeptics Françoise Meltzer: For your eyes only : ghost citing Terry Castle: Rejoinder to Françoise Meltzer Simon Schaffer: Self evidence Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Jane Austen and the masturbating girl Lauren Berlant: Evidences of masturbation Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Against epistemology Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Belief and resistance : a symmetrical account Robert Richards: Resistance to constructed belief Barbara Herrnstein Smith: Circling around, knocking over, playing out Mark Kelman: Reasonable evidence of reasonableness Cass R. Sunstein: On finding facts Mark Kelman: Rejoinder to Cass R. Sunstein Donald Preziosi: Question of art history Joel Snyder: Response to Donald Preziosi Donald Preziosi: Rejoinder to Joel Snyder Lorraine Daston: Marvelous facts and miraculous evidence in early modern Europe James Chandler: Proving a history of evidence Lorraine Daston: Historical epistemology Carlo Ginzburg: Checking the evidence Arnold I. Davidson: Carlo Ginzburg and the renewal of historiography Carlo Ginzburg: Rejoinder to Arnold I. Davidson Pierre Vidal-Naquet: Atlantis and the nations Elizabeth Helsinger: Using and abusing fiction Pierre Vidal-Naquet: How to get beyond myth? Joan W. Scott: Evidence of experience Thomas C. Holt: Experience and the politics of intellectual inquiry Joan W. Scott: Rejoinder to Thomas C. Holt Mary Poovey: Figures of arithmetic, figures of speech : the discourse of statistics Harry Harootunian: Response to Mary Poovey Mary Poovey: Grand narrative or historical overdetermination? Ian Hacking: Two souls in one body Jean Comaroff: Aristotle re-membered Ian Hacking: Aristotle meets incest and innocence R.C. Lewontin: facts and the factitious in natural sciences William Wimsatt: Lewontin's evidence (that there isn't any) R.C. Lewontin.: Rejoinder to William Wimsatt |
