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Barbara Herrnstein Smith

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

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Unloading the self-refutation charge

Journal article Common Knowledge · January 1, 2019 Full text Open Access Cite

Scientizing the humanities: Shifts, collisions, negotiations

Journal article Common Knowledge · September 1, 2016 Full text Open Access Cite

Anthropotheology: Latour speaking religiously

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

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

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

On Free-Wheeling Careers

Journal article the minnesota review · May 1, 2013 In this interview with Barbara Herrnstein Smith, known for her important contributions to literary theory and for an unusual interdisciplinary career, interviewer Janell Watson gives a brief account of Smith’s early interests in philosophy and scie ... Full text Open Access Cite

"Dolls, Demons and DNA"

Journal article · March 2012 Open Access Cite

Chinese comparisons and questionable acts

Journal article Common Knowledge · December 1, 2011 Full text Open Access Cite

Clearing up after the science wars: A response to emily A. Schultz

Journal article Reviews in Anthropology · April 1, 2011 Emily Schultz seeks in "Fear of Scandalous Knowledge" (Schultz 2010) to bring important approaches in science studies, along with recent developments in related fields, to the attention of fellow anthropologists. She also seeks to counter lingering misunde ... Full text Open Access Cite

THE CHIMERA OF RELATIVISM A Tragicomedy

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

“Science and Religion: Lives and Rocks”

Journal article New York Times · January 2010 ... Cite

"It’s Like Getting Married"

Journal article · February 2009 Open Access Cite

"Naturalism, Otherwise"

Journal article The Immanent Frame · June 2008 Cite

"Cognitive Machinery and Explanatory Ambitions"

Journal article Online Forum, The Immanent Frame · June 2008 Cite

Relativism, Today and Yesterday

Journal article Common Knowledge · 2007 Cite

Endurance, Otherwise: a Response to Martin Meuller

Journal article Salmagundi · 2007 Cite

Animal relatives, difficult relations

Journal article Differences · March 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Animal Ralatives, Difficult Relations,"

Journal article Differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies · 2004 Cite

Reply to an analytic philosopher

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · January 1, 2002 Full text Open Access Cite

Review of Brian Cantwell Smith, *On the Origin of Objects*

Journal article Isis: Journal of the History of Science Society · 1999 Cite

On the Origin of Objects. Brian Cantwell Smith

Journal article Isis · December 1998 Full text Cite

How the mind works

Journal article TLS-THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT · February 20, 1998 Link to item Cite

"Is it Really a Computer?"

Journal article Times Literary Supplement · February 1998 Cite

"Evaluation" and "Value"

Journal article · 1998 Cite

Review of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto’s *Truth: A History*

Journal article The Times Literary Supplement · October 1997 Cite

The Hermeneutic Circle

Journal article PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America · May 1996 Full text Cite

The Hermeneutic Circle

Journal article PMLA · 1996 Cite

Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions

Journal article University of Toronto Quarterly · May 1, 1992 There is, it appears, the appearance of truth, 'verisimilitude,' and, over and against that, the reality of truth, truth itself. Or so it appears, but perhaps it is not true, or not any longer. Certainly, the certification of true truth and genuin ... Full text Cite

Making (Up) the Truth: Constructivist Contributions

Journal article University of Toronto Quarterly · 1992 Cite

The Unquiet Judge: Activism Without Objectivism in Law and Politics

Journal article Annals of Scholarship · 1992 Cite

Unloading the Self-Refutation Charge

Journal article Common Knowledge · 1992 Cite

Belief and Resistance: A Symmetrical Account

Journal article Critical Inquiry · October 1991 Full text Cite

The Complex Agony of Injustice

Journal article Cardozo Law Review · 1991 Cite

ENDURANCE, OTHERWISE A RESPONSE TO MUELLER,MARTIN

Journal article SALMAGUNDI-A QUARTERLY OF THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES · 1991 Link to item Cite

Judgment After the Fall

Journal article Cardozo Law Review · 1990 Cite

CULT-LIT, HIRSCH, LITERACY, AND THE NATIONAL CULTURE

Journal article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1990 Link to item Cite

Issues in Contemporary Literary Education

Journal article Duke Dialogue · March 1988 Cite

Reply to Lynne V. Cheney

Journal article MLA Newsletter · 1988 Cite

Curing the Humanities, Correcting the Humanists

Journal article MLA Newsletter · 1988 Cite

Value Without Truth-Value

Journal article · 1987 Cite

Value/Evaluation

Journal article South Atlantic Quarterly · 1987 Cite

VALUE/EVALUATION

Journal article SOUTH ATLANTIC QUARTERLY · 1987 Link to item Cite

Towards the Practice of Theory

Journal article · 1984 Cite

Standards and Judgments: A Post-Axiological Essay

Journal article Tamking Review · 1984 Cite

Contingencies of Value

Journal article Critical Inquiry · 1983 Cite

Narrative Versions, Narrative Theories

Journal article Critical Inquiry · 1980 Featured Publication Cite

Fixed Marks and Variable Constancies: A Parable of Literary Value

Journal article Poetics Today, reprinted in Hebrew translation, Siman Kriya, Summer 1981 · 1979 Cite

Surfacing from the Deep

Journal article PTL: A Journal for Descriptive Poetics and Theory of Literature · 1977 Cite

On the Margins of Discourse

Journal article Critical Inquiry · 1975 Cite

Women Artists: Some Muted Notes

Journal article Journal of Communications · 1974 Cite

Review of Paul Hernandi, *Beyond Genre: New Directions in Literary Classification*

Journal article Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1973 Cite

The New Imagism

Journal article Midway: A Magazine of Discovery in the Arts and Sciences · 1969 Cite

’Sorrow’s Mysteries’: Keat’s ’Ode on Melancholy’

Journal article Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900 · 1966 Cite