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Harvard University Press

Contingencies of Value: Alternative Perspectives f...

Charges of abandoned standards issue from government offices; laments for the loss of the best that has been thought and said resound through university corridors. While revisionists are perplexed by questions of value, critical theory haunted by the heresy of relativism remains captive to classical..

Yale University Press

Natural Reflections: Human Cognition at the Nexus ...

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,” is the effort to explain religion on the bas..

University of Chicago Press

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

In Poetic Closure, distinguished literary scholar Barbara Herrnstein Smith explores the provocative question: How do poems end To answer it, Smith examines numerous individual poems and examples of common poetic forms in order to reveal the relationship between closure and the overall structure and..