Question of the Week

Week of November 2, 2026

Which book has more reviews on PhilReviews than any other?

  1. AJohn Rawls, A Theory of Justice Your pick
  2. BBob Dylan, The Philosophy of Modern Song Correct answer
  3. CAmia Srinivasan, The Right to Sex
  4. DRichard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

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Bob Dylan's The Philosophy of Modern Song (2022), with 39 reviews, one ahead of Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex (38). The book, 66 short essays on other people's songs and Dylan's first book since his 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature, was a press event: Rolling Stone, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, Variety and some thirty other papers and magazines reviewed it. Only four reviews came from philosophy and ideas outlets: Philosophy Now, Philosophy and Literature, The Philosophical Quarterly and Law & Liberty. For comparison, Rorty's Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature has 35 reviews and Rawls's A Theory of Justice 19.

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