JEWISH
AUTHORSHIP AMONG THE FIFTY TWENTIETH CENTURY WORKS MOST FREQUENTLY
CITED
IN THE ARTS & HUMANITIES LITERATURE
(42% of listed works)
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What follows is a
list
of works by Jewish scholars and writers that are among the fifty most
frequently
cited twentieth century works in the arts and humanities literature,
according
to the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, 1976-1983. The
ranking
of each work according to its relative citation frequency is indicated
in square brackets. For more information concerning the
methodology
employed in the formulation of this list, see http://home.comcast.net/~antaylor1/fiftymostcited.html.
- [1] Thomas Kuhn,1 The
Structure
of Scientific Revolutions
- [4] Ludwig Wittgenstein,2 Philosophical
Investigations
- [5] Noam Chomsky, Aspects of the
Theory of
Syntax
- [7] Jacques Derrida, Of
Grammatology
- [17] Noam Chomsky and Morris Halle, The
Sound
Pattern of English
- [21] Marcel Proust,3 Remembrance
of Things Past
- [22] Ludwig Wittgenstein,2
Tractatus
Logico-Philosophicus
- [25] Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structural
Anthropology
- [26] Sigmund Freud, The
Interpretation
of Dreams
- [30] Saul Kripke, Naming and
Necessity
- [31] Émile Benveniste,4
Problems
in General Linguistics
- [32] Sir Karl Popper, Conjectures
and
Refutations: The
Growth of Scientific Knowledge
- [34] Jacques Derrida, Writing and
Difference
- [35] Noam Chomsky, Syntactic
Structures
- [36] Roman Jakobson, Linguistics
and
Poetics
- [37] E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Validity
in
Interpretation
- [38] Claude Lévi-Strauss, The
Savage
Mind
- [44] Sir Karl Popper, Objective
Knowledge:
An Evolutionary Approach
- [46] Erich Auerbach,5 Mimesis:
The
Representation of Reality in Western Literature
- [47] Sir Ernst Gombrich, Art and
Illusion:
A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation
- [50] Sir Karl Popper, The Logic of
Scientific
Discovery
NOTES
1. See Encyclopaedia
Judaica,
Vol. 10 (Keter, Jerusalem, 1972, p. 1287).
2. Jewish father, half-Jewish
mother; see, e.g., Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius, by
Ray
Monk (Penguin, New York and London, 1990, pp. 4-7).
3. Jewish mother, non-Jewish
father.
4. According to his profile
in Thinkers of the Twentieth Century, edited
by Roland Turner (St. James Press, 1988, p. 63), Benveniste was a
former
rabbinical student.
5. See The Concise
Dictionary
of American Jewish Biography: Volume One, edited by Jacob Rader
Marcus
and Judith M. Daniels (Carlson Publishing, Brooklyn, NY, 1994, p. 25).