Editing Festschrift (section)

==Critique==
As [[Irving Louis Horowitz]] summarized, "''Festschriften'' persist and multiply. Why? Because they are not just retrospective, but prospective. That is to say the ''Festschrift'' is a ''[[:wikt:Beruf|Beruf]]'', a call to further work, effort, and energy, a call to the improvement of learning, of a discipline, a science, an artistic vision, or an intellectual position. Even in this age of mass ''Festschriften'', they remain a special literary genre".<ref>{{cite book|title=Communicating Ideas: The Politics of Scholarly Publishing|first=Irving Louis|last=Horovitz|page=237}}</ref>

[[Endel Tulving]], a Canadian neuroscientist, proposed that "a Festschrift frequently enough also serves as a convenient place in which those who are invited to contribute find a permanent resting place for their otherwise unpublishable or at least difficult-to-publish papers."<ref name="Tulving">{{cite book|author=Endel Tulving|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eoh9AAAAMAAJ&q=%22Festschrift+frequently+enough%22&pg=PA39|title=The foundations of remembering: essays in honor of Henry L. Roediger III|publisher=[[Psychology Press]]|year=2007|isbn=978-1-84169-446-7|editor=James S. Nairne|page=39|chapter=Are there 256 different kinds of memory?|author-link=Endel Tulving}}</ref>

In a review of the book ''Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger'', [[Marxist]] [[archeologist]] [[Randall H. McGuire]] (at  [[Binghamton University]]) observed in 2014 that "the festschrift [book] and the memorial volume are dying enterprises", and suggested that creating festschrift websites instead, because many observers think that the festschrift volumes are a waste of time, often lack coherence and frequently include articles that the authors could not publish elsewhere. He suggested that because of the weaknesses, festschrifts do not sell and publishers are reluctant to publish them.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=McGuire|first1=Randall H.|date=1 October 2014|title=Human Expeditions: Inspired by Bruce Trigger|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/1461957114Z.00000000092|journal=European Journal of Archaeology|volume=17|issue=4|pages=720–723|doi=10.1179/1461957114Z.00000000092|s2cid=162371119|issn=1461-9571}}</ref> However, about 3,400 'festschrifts' or 'essays in honor of...' scholarly works have been published since McGuire's 2014 review.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Google Scholar |url=https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_vis=1&q=intitle:festschrift+OR+intitle:%22essays+in+honor+of%22&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&as_ylo=2014 |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=scholar.google.com}}</ref>

Philosopher [[Alan Soble]], in a review of the book ''[[Fact and Value]]'' in honor of [[MIT]]'s philosopher [[Judith Jarvis Thomson]], has formulated – somewhat tongue-in-cheek – 13 conditions that should be satisfied by a ''Festschrift''.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Soble|first=Alan G.|author-link=Alan Soble|date=2003|title=Review of Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson, ed. Alex Byrne, Robert Stalnaker, and Ralph Wedgwood|url=http://www.pdcnet.org/oom/service?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=&rft.imuse_id=eip_2003_0004_0001_0070_0075&svc_id=info:www.pdcnet.org/collection|journal=[[Essays in Philosophy]]|volume=4|issue=1|pages=70–75|doi=10.5840/eip20034125|issn=1526-0569}}</ref>