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Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Barbara Herrnstein Smith

Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature and English
Literature
bhsmith@duke.edu
Box 90670, the Program in Literature, Durham, NC 27708
9 Towhee Drive, Topsham, ME 04086

Featured Works

Anthropotheology: Latour speaking religiously

Journal article New Literary History · March 1, 2016 Featured Work Full text Open Access Cite

What Was "close Reading"?: A Century of Method in Literary Studies

Journal article Minnesota Review · January 1, 2016 Featured Work Full text Open Access Cite

THE CHIMERA OF RELATIVISM A Tragicomedy

Journal article COMMON KNOWLEDGE · 2011 Featured Work Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Natural reflections: Human cognition at the nexus of science and religion

Book · December 1, 2010 Featured Work In this important and original book, eminent scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith describes, assesses, and reflects upon a set of contemporary intellectual projects involving science, religion, and human cognition. One, which Smith calls "the New Naturalism," ... Cite

Scandalous knowledge: Science, truth and the human

Book · January 1, 2006 Featured Work This book explores the radical reconceptions of knowledge and science emerging from constructivist epistemology, social studies of science, and contemporary cognitive science. Smith reviews the key issues involved in the twentieth-century critiques of trad ... Cite

Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives for Critical Theory

Book · 1988 Featured Work A critique of traditional conceptions of value and judgment, primarily in aesthetics and literary studies but also in communication theory, ethics, and epistemology. ... Link to item Cite

Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories

Journal article Critical Inquiry · 1980 Featured Work Cite

Poetic Closure

Book · 1974 Featured Work Cite