Books Received

Cavell, Stanley. This New Yet Unapproachable America: Lectures After Emerson After Wittgenstein. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013. 128p., bibl., $17. Aesthetics and philosophy of language, first published 1989.

Dodds, Lara. The Literary Invention of Margaret Cavendish. Pittsburgh: Duquesne UP, 2013. viii, 317p., bibl., index, $58. The author as reader.

Feltham, Oliver. Anatomy of Failure: Philosophy and Political Action. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. vii, 290p., bibl., index, $32.95. Hobbes, Locke and the English Civil War.

Ferguson, Karen. Top Down: The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2013. 327p., ill., index, $45. White elites domesticate Black separatism and self-determination through the soft power of money, 1965–75.

Forst, Rainer. Toleration in Conflict: Past and Present. Ideas in Context, no. 103. Trans. Ciaran Cronin. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. xiv, 635p., bibl., index, $110. Stoicism, early Christianity, natural law, and a theory of conflict and justice.

Gobert, R. Darren. The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford UP, 2013. xv, 248p., ill., index. Blocking, set design, and character subjectivity in the seventeenth century.

Harloe, Katherine and Neville Morley, eds. Thucydides and the Modern World: Reception, Reinterpretation and Influence from the Renaissance to the Present. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xi, 256p., bibl., index, $99. Eleven essays on classics and political theory.

Jorink, Eric and Ad Maas, eds. Newton and the Netherlands: How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic. Amsterdam: Leiden UP, 2012. 256p., ill., index, $37. Nine essays on dissemination through W. J. Gravesande and Petrus van Musschenbroek and reception by Fatio de Duillier, Lambert ten Kate, and Daniel Fahrenheit.

Kaebnick, Gregory E. and Thomas H. Murray, eds. Synthetic Biology and Morality: Artificial Life and the Bounds of Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2013. vii, 211p., index, $21. Nine essays on bioethics and biotechnology.

Kasten, Madeleine, Herman Paul, and Rico Sneller, eds. Hermeneutics and the Humanities: Dialogues with Hans-Georg Gadamer. Amsterdam: Leiden UP, 2012. 320p., index, $55. Thirteen essays in German and English on practices of interpretation.

McDowell, John. The Engaged Intellect: Philosophical Essays. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2013. ix, 285p., bibl., index, $25.95. Nineteen essays on mind and body in Aristotle and Wittgenstein as responses to recent discussions in analytical philosophy, first published 2009.

McDowell, John. Having the World in View: Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2013. ix, 285p., bibl., index, $24.95. Fourteen essays on experience and perception, first published 2009.

Melamed, Yitzhak Y. Spinoza’s Metaphysics: Substance and Thought. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. xxii, 232p., bibl., index, $74. The priority of the infinite over the finite.

Miller, Peter N., ed. Cultural Histories of the Material World. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2013. xv, 295p., ill., index, $45. Twenty-three essays on objects as subjects in antiquarianism, inscriptions, archeology, art.

Ojankangas, Mika. The Voice of Conscience: A Political Genealogy of Western Ethical Experience. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. ix, 253p., bibl., index, $130. The inner voice from Thomism to psychoanalysis.

Penny, H. Glenn. Kindred by Choice: Germans and American Indians Since 1800. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2013. xvii, 372p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Karl May, masculinity, and comparative genocides.

Pietsch, Tamson. Empires of Scholars: Universities, Networks and the British Academic World 1850–1939. Manchester: Manchester UP, 2013. xiv, 242p., bibl., index, £65. Settler universities transformed from classical liberal schools for colonial elites into coeducational research institutions tied to the mother country.

Rees, Emma L. E. The Vagina: A Literary and Cultural History. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. xii, 354p., bibl., ill., index, $29.95. Gender studies metanymized.

Robinson, Douglas. Feeling Extended: Sociality as Extended Body-Becoming-Mind. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2013. 256p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Language, affect, and cognition in the mirror of the physical world.

Ryley, Peter. Making Another World Possible: Anarchism, Anti-Capitalism and Ecology in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Britain. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013. xxviii, 233p., bibl., index, $110. Peter Kropotkin, Elisée Reclus, Patrick Geddes and other late Victorians.

Schuler, Stephen J. The Augustinian Theology of W. H. Auden. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2013. ix, 213p...