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Publications of Barbara Herrnstein Smith     :recent first  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

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

Edited Volumes

  1. B.H. Smith, ed.. Discussions of Shakespeare's Sonnets. Boston: D.C. Heath and Company, 1964 ().
  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 and Arkady Plotnitsky, eds., with Introduction. Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory. Durham: Duke UP, 1997 ().

Articles in a Journal

  1. "Animal Ralatives, Difficult Relations,"." Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 13.1 (2004): 1-15.
  2. ""Figuring and Reconfiguring the Humanities and the Sciences." Profession 2005  (Winter, 2005).
  3. "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.

Articles in a Collection

  1.  "'Sorrow's Mysteries': Keat's 'Ode on Melancholy'." . 1966, 679-91.
  2.  "The New Imagism." . 1969, 27-44.
  3.  "Poetic Closure." The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Ed. Alex Preminger at al.. (Princeton, NJ: Princeton 1993), 1974.
  4.  "Women Artists: Some Muted Notes." . 1974, 146-49.
  5.  "On the Margins of Discourse." . 1975, 769-98.
  6.  "Actions, Fictions and the Ethics of Interpretation." . 1977, 117-20, 128-32.
  7.  "Surfacing from the Deep." . 1977, 151-82.
  8.  "Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Literary Value." . 1979, 1-22.
  9.  "Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories." . 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])
  10.  "Contingencies of Value." . 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)
  11.  "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.
  12.  "Standards and Judgments: A Post-Axiological Essay." . 1984, 462-85.
  13.  "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])
  14.  "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.
  15.  "Value/Evaluation." . 1987, 444-55. (Also in Critical Terms for Literary Study, ed. Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin [Chicago: U of Chicago P 1990])
  16.  "Issues in Contemporary Literary Education." . 4 Mar. 1988.
  17.  "Curing the Humanities, Correcting the Humanists." . Summer, 1988.
  18.  "Reply to Lynne V. Cheney." . Fall, 1988.
  19.  "Limelight: Reflections on a Public Year (Presidential Address to the MLA)." . 1989, 285-93.
  20.  "Cult-Lit: Hirsch, Literacy and the 'National Culture'." . 1990, 69-88.
  21.  "Judgment After the Fall." . 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))
  22.  "Endurance, Otherwise: a Response to Martin Meuller." . Fall 1990, 455-68.
  23.  "The Complex Agony of Injustice." . 1991, 101-04.
  24.  "Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account." . 1991, 125-39.
  25.  "Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions." . 1992, 422-29.
  26.  "The Unquiet Judge: Activism Without Objectivism in Law and Politics." . 1992, 111-13. (Also in Rethinking Objectivity, ed. Allen Megill [Duke UP 1996])
  27.  "Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge." . 1992, 81-95.
  28.  "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.
  29.  "The Hermeneutic Circle (Forum)." . 1996, 465-66.
  30.  "Entries for Evaluation and Value." The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics Ed. Michael Kelly. New York: Oxford UP, 1998.
  31.  "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.
  32.  "Netting Truth." . 2000, 1089-1095.
  33.  "Comment." Goodness and Advice Ed. J. Thomson. Princeton UP, 2001, 132-144.
  34.  "Reply to an Analytic Philosopher." . 2002, 229-42.
  35.  "Cutting-Edge Equivocation: Conceptual Moves and Rhetorical Strategies in Contemporary Anti-Epistemology." . 2002, 187-212.
  36.  "Animal Relatives, Difficult Relations," Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies." . Spring, 2004, 1-15. (Special issue, "Man and Beast," ed Elizabeth Weed and Ellen Rooney)

Book Reviews

  1.  Review of Paul Hernandi's Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 32:2 (1973): 296-98.
  2.  Review of Rom Harre and Michael Krausz's Varieties of Relativism. Common Knowledge 6:2 (1997): 104.
  3.  Review of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's Truth: A History. The Times Literary Supplement  (31 Oct. 1997): 18.
  4.  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])
  5.  Review of Brian Cantwell Smith's On the Origin of Objects. Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society 89:4 (1999): 772-773.

Articles Online

  1. B. Smith. ""Cognitive Machinery and Explanatory Ambitions"." Online Forum, The Immanent Frame  (June 16, 2008). June 16, 2008
    <http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/16/cognitive-machinery-explanatory-ambitions/>
  2. B. Smith. ""Naturalism, Otherwise"." The Immanent Frame  (June 23, 2008). June 23, 2008
    <http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/06/23/naturalism-otherwise/>>