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Publications of Barbara Herrnstein Smith    :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1.  Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus of Science and Religion. The Terry Lectures Series Yale University Press, Winter, 2009. [book.asp]
  2.  Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human. Edinburgh UP/Duke UP, 2005/2006. [books.php3]
  3.  Belief and Resistance: Dynamics of Contemporary Intellectual Controversy. Harvard UP, 1997.
  4.  Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory. Harvard UP, 1988.
  5.  On the Margins of Discourse: The Relation of Literature to Language. U of Chicago P, 1978.
  6.  Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End. U of Chicago P, 1968.

Edited

  1. B.H. Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, eds., with Introduction. Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory.  Durham: Duke UP, 1997.
  2. B.H. Smith and Darryl Gless, eds., with Introduction. The Politics of Liberal Education.  New York: Avon Books and New York UP, 1969.
  3. B.H. Smith, ed., with Introduction. Shakespeare's Sonnets.  New York: Avon Books, and New York UP, 1969.
  4. B.H. Smith, ed.. Discussions of Shakespeare's Sonnets.  Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1964.

Essays/Articles/Chapters in Books

  1. "Chinese Comparisons and Questionable Acts." Common Knowledge; Special Issue on Comparative Relativism  (Winter, 2011)
  2. "The Chimera of Relativism: A Tragicomedy." Common Knowledge; Special Issue on Comparative Relativism  (Winter, 2011)
  3. "The Entwinement of Religion and Economics: Comments on Bradley Bateman’s ‘In a Space of Questions’." History of Political Economy, Special Issue on The Uses of Economics-Past and Future  (Summer, 2011)
  4. "Relativism, Today and Yesterday." Common Knowledge Special double issue, “A ‘Dictatorship of Relativism?’: The Intellectual Community Responds to Cardinal Ratzinger’s Last Homily”.13.2-3 (Summer, 2007): 227-249.
  5. "Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 15.1 (Spring, 2004): 1-15.  Special issue, "Man and Beast," ed Elizabeth Weed and Ellen Rooney
  6. "Animal Ralatives, Difficult Relations,"." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 13.1 (2004): 1-15.
  7. "Reply to an Analytic Philosopher." South Atlantic Quarterly 101.1 (Winter, 2002)
  8. "Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology." South Atlantic Quarterly 101.1 (2002): 187-212.
  9. "Comment." Goodness and Advice. Ed. J. Thomson. Princeton UP, 2001. 132-144.
  10. "Sewing Up the Mind: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology." Alas, Poor Darwin: Arguments Against Evolutionary Psychology. Ed. H. Rose and S. Rose. Jonathan Cape, 2000. 129-143.
  11. "Netting Truth." PMLA 115.5 (2000): 1089-1095.
  12. "Entries for Evaluation and Value." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics. Ed. Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford UP, 1998. 
  13. "The Hermeneutic Circle (Forum)." PMLA 111.3 (1996): 465-66.
  14. "Circling Around, Knocking Over, Playing Out: Reply to Robert J. Richards." Questions of Evidence, A. Davidson, H. Haratoonian and J. Miller, eds. (Chicago: Chicago UP).  1994. 
  15. "Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions." University of Toronto Quarterly 61.4 (1992): 422-29.
  16. "The Unquiet Judge: Activism Without Objectivism in Law and Politics." Annals of Scholarship 9.1-2 (1992): 111-13.  Also in Rethinking Objectivity, ed. Allen Megill [Duke UP 1996]
  17. "Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge." Common Knowledge 2.2 (1992): 81-95.
  18. "The Complex Agony of Injustice." Cardozo Law Review 13.4 (1991): 101-04.
  19. "Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account." Critical Inquiry 18.1 (1991): 125-39.
  20. "Endurance, Otherwise: a Response to Martin Meuller." Salmagundi 88-89 (Fall 1990): 455-68.
  21. "Cult-Lit: Hirsch, Literacy and the 'National Culture'." South Atlantic Quarterly 89.1 (1990): 69-88.
  22. "Judgment After the Fall." Cardozo Law Review 11.5-6 (1990): 1291-1311.  Also in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, eds. D. Cornell, M. Rosenfeld, and D.G. Carlson (New York and London 1992)
  23. "Limelight: Reflections on a Public Year (Presidential Address to the MLA)." PMLA 104.3 (1989): 285-93.
  24. "Reply to Lynne V. Cheney." MLA Newsletter  (Fall, 1988)
  25. "Curing the Humanities, Correcting the Humanists." MLA Newsletter  (Summer, 1988)
  26. "Issues in Contemporary Literary Education." Duke Dialogue  (4 Mar. 1988)
  27. "Value Without Truth-Value." Life After Postmodernism: Essays on Value and Culture. Ed. John Fekete. New York: St. Martin's Press and Montreal: New World Perspectives, 1987. 
  28. "Value/Evaluation." South Atlantic Quarterly 86.4 (1987): 444-55.  Also in Critical Terms for Literary Study, ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin [Chicago: U of Chicago P 1990]
  29. "Masters and Servants: Theory in the Literary Academy." Making Sense: The Role of the Reader in Contemporary Fiction. Ed. Gerhard Hoffman (Munich).  1986.  Also in Explorations in Music, the Arts and Ideas: Essays in Honor of Leonard B. Meyer, ed. Eugene Narmour [Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1988]
  30. "Towards the Practice of Theory." Romanticism and Culture: A Tribute to Morse Peckham and Bibliography of his works. Ed. H.W. Matalene. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1984. 
  31. "Standards and Judgments: A Post-Axiological Essay." Tamking Review 14.1-4 (1984): 462-85.
  32. "Contingencies of Value." Critical Inquiry 10.1 (1983): 1-35.  Also appears in Canons [Polish translation], ed. Robert von Hallberg [Chicago: U of Chicago, 1984]; Pamietnik Literacki 26, vol. 2 no. 4; Twentieth Century Literary Theory: An Introductory Anthology, eds. Vassili Lambropoulos and David Neal Miller [New York: SUNY P, 1986]; The Culturology of Literature and Art in the Contemporary West [Chinese translation], eds. Luo Weng, Zhou Xian, and Dai Yun [Peking, 1989]: The Critical Tradition, ed. David H. Richter [New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989]; The National Forum [abridged] Summer 1989
  33. "Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories." Critical Inquiry 6.2 (1980): 213-36.  Also in On Narrative, ed. W.J.T. Mitchell [Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1981]; American Criticism: The Poststructuralist Age, ed. Ira Konigsberg [Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 1981]
  34. "Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Literary Value." Poetics Today, reprinted in Hebrew translation, Siman Kriya, Summer 1981 1.1-2 (1979): 1-22.
  35. "Actions, Fictions and the Ethics of Interpretation." Centrum 3.2 (1977): 117-20, 128-32.
  36. "Surfacing from the Deep." PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature 2.2 (1977): 151-82.
  37. "On the Margins of Discourse." Critical Inquiry 1.4 (1975): 769-98.
  38. "Poetic Closure." The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger at al.. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton 1993), 1974. 
  39. "Women Artists: Some Muted Notes." Journal of Communications 24.2 (1974): 146-49.
  40. "The New Imagism." Midway: A Magazine of Discovery in the Arts and Sciences 9.3 (1969): 27-44.
  41. "'Sorrow's Mysteries': Keat's 'Ode on Melancholy'." Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 6.4 (1966): 679-91.

Book Reviews

  1.  Review of Brian Cantwell Smith's On the Origin of Objects.  Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 89.4 (1999): 772-773.
  2.  Is it Really a Computer?.  Times Literary Supplement (20 Feb. 1998): 3-4. (Review of Steven Pinker's How the Mind Works [New York: Norton 1997])
  3.  Review of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's Truth: A History.  The Times Literary Supplement (31 Oct. 1997): 18.
  4.  Review of Rom Harre and Michael Krausz's Varieties of Relativism.  Common Knowledge 6.2 (1997): 104.
  5.  Review of Paul Hernandi's Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification.  Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32.2 (1973): 296-98.

Articles Online

  1. Nathan Schneider and BHS. "“Religion, Science, and the Humanities: An Interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith”." The Immanent Frame June 21, 2010.
    <http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/06/21/religion-science-and->
  2. "“Science and Religion: Lives and Rocks”." New York Times January 25, 2010.
    <http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/science-and->  [abs]
  3. ""Naturalism, Otherwise"." The Immanent Frame June 23, 2008.
    <http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/23/naturalism-otherwise/>>
  4. ""Cognitive Machinery and Explanatory Ambitions"." Online Forum, The Immanent Frame June 16, 2008.
    <http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/16/cognitive-machinery-explanatory-ambitions/>

Reviews

  1.  Review-essay on Steven Shapin, *The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation* in London Review of Books.  *London Review of Books* 31.3 (February 12, 2009): 10-12.
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