John E. Becker

Professor Emeritus at Fairleigh Dickinson University

Bio

John E. Becker is professor emeritus of English at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Currently an editor of The Literary Review, he once served as literary editor of WORLDVIEW, a long-running (1958-1985) Carnegie Council publication.

Featured Work

Science, Truth, and Democracy

DEC 2, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Philip Kitcher, "Science, Truth, and Democracy"

Kitcher cuts a clear path between those who worship science as a religion and those who fashionably insist that science is merely a set of ...

Reverence

NOV 1, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Paul Woodruff, "Reverence"

Woodruff doesn't lament the absence of reverence in our life; he asks us to discover it where it already is. We could not live ...

The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics

OCT 1, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Mark Lilla, "The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics"

"Lilla's book summarizes the thought of some of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, some of whom are well known but others of ...

SEP 2, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Thomas Cahill, "Pope John XXIII"

Cahill tells two stories, the story of the papacy and the story of John XXIII. The first gives context to the second. And that context--the ...

AUG 1, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Stephen E. Ambrose, "Nothing Like It in the World", David Howard Bain, "Empire Express"

Reading the story of the transcontinental railroad, looking back at the relentless advance of European immigration across the North American continent, it seems that the ...

book cover image Sources of the Self

JUL 1, 2002 Article

"To Be Read" Book Review Column: Charles Taylor, "Sources of Self", Ruth Abbey, "Charles Taylor"

"Abbey's book is an excellent introduction for those who have not read Taylor and a fine retrospective for those who have been following his thought ...