Book Reviews
“Madame
Bovary’s Ovaries, by David and Nanelle Barash,”
in Washington Post , August 7, 2005.
“David
S. Landes’s The Wealth and
Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor,”
in The Press, June 19, 1999.
“The
Pleasures of Fiction: Joseph Carroll’s Literary
Darwinism,” in Philosophy and Literature
28 (2004): 453-66.
“Once Upon a Time: on Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots,” in Washington Post, May 8, 2005.
“Doubt’s
Work Is Never Done: on Jennifer Hecht’s Doubt,”
in Washington Post, February 1, 2004.
“Knowledge Replacement Therapy,” in Philosophy and Literature 21
(1997): 208-21.
“Paul Theroux on the South Pacific,”
in The Press, August 1, 1992.
“John
Carey’s What Good Are the
Arts?” in The Press, September 9, 2006.
“Requiem
for the Shroud of Turin,” in Michigan
Quarterly Review 23 (1984): 243-55.
“Wendy Steiner’s The Scandal of Pleasure,”
in Philosophy and Literature 23 (1999): 252-55.
“Art of the Piano:
Charles Rosen’s Piano Notes,”
in Philosophy and Literature 27 (2003): 485-96.
“Art
and Sexual Selection: Geoffrey Miller’s The Mating
Mind,” in Philosophy and Literature
24 (2000): 512-21.
“Richard
Etlin on Humanism,” in Philosophy and
Literature 23 (1999): 243-55.
“Debunking Deconstruction,” in Philosophy and Literature
13 (1989): 430-34.
“Darwin and Political Theory: Paul Rubin’s Darwinian Politics,” in Philosophy and Literature 27
(2003): 241-54.
“Mad About
Flowers: Elaine Scarry on Beauty,” in Philosophy
and Literature 24 (2000): 249-60.
“Richard
Rorty’s Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity,”
in Philosophy and Literature 14 (1990): 232-35.
“Christopher Steiner on African Art,” in Philosophy and Literature 18 (1994): 428-34.
“Alain Finkielkraut’s The Defeat of the Mind,” in Philosophy and Literature 19
(1995): 432-35.
“Susan Vogel on Baule Art,” in Philosophy and Literature 22
(1998): 264-69.
“Alfred W. Crosby’s The Measure of Reality,” in Philosophy and Literature 23
(1999): 243-55.
“Umberto Eco on Interpretation,” in Philosophy and Literature 16
(1992): 432-37.
“Writing Classic
Prose,” on Clear and Simple as the Truth,
by Mark Turner and Francis-Noël Thomas, in Philosophy
and Literature 21 (1997): 504-507.
“Is Aesthetics a Cross-Cultural Category?,” in Pacific Arts 11/12
(1995): 139-141.
“Greener
Than You Think,” in Washington Post,
October 21, 2001.
“What Is Genius?” in Philosophy and Literature 25
(2001): 181-96.
“A
Hanging Judge,” in Philosophy and Literature
26 (2002): 224-38.
“America’s
Most Wanted, and Why No One Wants It,” in Philosophy
and Literature 22 (1998): 530-43.
“Which Came
First, the Language or its Grammar?” in Philosophy
and Literature 22 (1998): 261-69.
“What Are Editors For?” in Philosophy
and Literature 20 (1996): 551-66.
“Arthur Danto
as Art Critic,” in Philosophy and Literature
15 (1991): 185-88.
“Jean
Baudrillard,” in Philosophy and Literature
14 (1990): 234-38.
“Anthropology,
Art, and Aesthetics,” in Pacific Arts 9/10
(1994): 107-110.
“Sally Price on Primitive Art,” in Philosophy and Literature
15 (1993): 382-87.
“Joseph M. Williams on Style,” in Philosophy and Literature
19 (1995): 201-205.
“What’s Wrong
with Philosophers?,” in Philosophy and Literature
17 (1993): 185-92.
“A Postmodern Lexicon,” in Philosophy
and Literature 15 (1991): 182-85.
“Heavy Traffic,” in Philosophy
and Literature 21 (1997): 208-221.
“The Death of Primitive Art,” in Philosophy and Literature
23 (1999): 243-51.
“Kaufmann, Heidegger,
and Nazism,” in Philosophy and Literature 12
(1988): 325-36.
“Skeptical Environmentalism,” in Wilson Quarterly, Autumn 2002, pp. 243-46.
“Theodor Adorno on Astrology,” in Philosophy and Literature
19 (1995): 424-30.
“John Reichert on Literature,” in Philosophy
and Literature 2 (1978): 258-65.
“The Empire Writes Back, with a Vengeance,” in Philosophy
and Literature 19 (1995): 198-203.
“Faking Your
Way to Tenure,” in Philosophy
and Literature 17 (1993): 402-409.
“Decontextualized
Crab,” in Philosophy
and Literature 16 (1992): 239-44.
“Nietzsche Dreams of Detroit,” in Philosophy
and Literature 16 (1992): 244-49.
“Forgers
and Critics,” in Philosophy and Literature
15 (1991): 182-88.
“What’s
Wrong with Philosophers?,” in Philosophy and
Literature 17 (1993): 182-87.
“Arnold Krupat’s
Ethnocriticism,” in Philosophy and Literature
17 (1991): 188-92.
“Tomas Kulka on Kitsch,” in Philosophy and Literature
21 (1997): 208-11.
“Sociobiology and Art,” in Philosophy and Literature
23 (1999): 451-57.
“On Ellen Dissanayake,” in Philosophy and Literature
18 (1994): 205-10.
“Barthes and
Barzun,” in Philosophy and Literature 13
(1989): 221-29.
“H. Gene Blocker on Tribal Art,” in Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53
(1995): 321-23.
“Colin
Martindale’s The Clockwork Muse,”
in Philosophy and Literature 18 (1994): 199-204.
“Michael
A. Simon’s Understanding Human Action,”
in Philosophical Books 25 (1984): 39-42.
“Stephen
P. Turner’s Sociological Explanation as Translation,”
in Philosophy of the Social Sciences 14 (1984): 581-82.
“Robert
Jastrow on Genesis and the Big Bang,”
in Sky and Telescope, July 1979, pp. 66-67.
“Mike
Moore on Globalization,” in The Press, October
10, 1998.
“Hollywood, Enemy of the
People,” in The Press, July 3, 1994.
“Edward
Marriott’s The Lost Tribe,”
in The Press, February 28, 1998.
“Richard
Dawkins’s Climbing Mount Improbable,”
in The Press, December 14, 1996.
“The
Incredible Stories of Charles Fort,”
in The Press, February 15, 1992.
“Paul
Davies on the Existence of God,”
in Sky and Telescope, September 1984, pp. 229-30.
