It is hard to imagine any scholar essaying a translation of a text without some knowledge of what it's about, and its importance, and for philosophers that "aboutness" and the importance stem from conceptions drawn from the translator's own philosophical training, which is the kernel from which the interpretation will grow.
Ms. Freedman is a scholar whose essays have appeared in News From the Republic of Letters, a magazine Mr. Bellow edits with Keith Botsford, and in Partisan Review.
In 2000, Mr. Lateiner was the subject of a festschrift, "Pianist, Scholar, Connoisseur: Essays in Honor of Jacob Lateiner," edited by the pianist Bruce Brubaker — a former pupil of his — and Jane Gottlieb.
Some fairly specialized publications took a turn at the podium to accept awards, including The Nation, for columns and commentary; Architectural Record, for general excellence for magazines with a circulation of 100,000 to 250,000; Scientific American, for single topic; The American Scholar, for essays; and Foreign Policy, for general excellence for magazines with a circulation under 100,000.
Pierre Rosenberg, president and director of the Louvre in Paris, is the principal author of both; curators and Chardin scholars contributed essays to the catalog, and the art historian Renaud Temperini is the co-author of the monograph.
Maureen Cansidy-Geiger, Americancan scholar, wrote an essay in the Steinitz catalog on such embroidery in secular interiors.
Bruce Bennett, the cinema scholar, contributes an essay tracing the film's bumpy history, and the first disc includes a 42-minute documentary on the reconstruction in German.
"The Recipe for Life" pays tribute to the Jewish scholar Gershom Scholem, whose essay "The Idea of the Golem" helped with Chabon's conception of "The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay".
Other scholars praised the essay, especially its insights into the close relationship of science and technology in ancient political affairs.
Why not instead invite a recognized scholar to contribute an essay, someone who has a lifetime of learning about the art under review?
