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Bamford, Kiff. Jean-François Lyotard. London: Reaktion, 2017. 176p., bibl.,ill., $19. Biography emphasizing the particular contexts that shaped the subject's thought and writing.
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Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 1, 1752–76. Ed. Timothy L. S. Sprigge. London: U College of London P, 2017. xlv, 383p., index, £25.
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Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 2, 1777–80. Ed. Timothy L. S. Sprigge. London: U College of London P, 2017. xvi, 542p., index, £25.
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Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 3, 1781–88. Ed. Ian R. Christie. London: U College of London P, 2017. xxxviii, 646p., index, £25.
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Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 4, 1788–93. Ed. Alexander Taylor Milne. London: U College of London P, 2017. xlvi, 506p., index, £25.
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Bentham, Jeremy. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham. Vol. 5, 1794–97. ED. Alexander Taylor Milne. London: U College of London P, 2017. xxii, 402p., index, £25.
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Bronner, Stephen Eric. Critical Theory: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. xx, 140p., bibl., ill., index, $11.95. The Frankfurt School and its resistance to conformism and authoritarianism in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Brosses, Charles de, Rosalind C. Morris and Daniel H. Leonard. The Returns of Fetishism: Charles de Brosses and the Afterlives of an Idea. With a new translation of On the Worship of Fetish Gods. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2017. xvi, 425p., bibl., index, $35. The text, its eighteenth-century context, and the reception and uses of the concept from Kant, Hegel, and Marx to Freud, deconstruction, and modern anthropology.
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Debes, Remy, ed. Dignity: A History. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. 408p., bibl., ill., index. Eleven essays and three reflections on social distinction and inherent human worth under ancient paganism, medieval monotheism, and modern ethics.
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Derrida, Jacques. Artaud the Moma: Interjections of Appeal. Trans. Peggy Kamuf. Ed. Kaira M. Cabañas. New York: Columbia UP, 2017. x, 94p., $20. A 1996 lecture at New York's Museum of Modern Art confronts the museum's valorization of Antonin Artaud's originality.
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Germana, Nicholas A. The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism. Rochester, N. Y.: Camden House, 2017. xii, 266p., bibl., index, $95. Kant, Fichte, Schlegel, Novalis, and Hegel.
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Gillespie, Michael Allen. Nietzsche's Final Teaching. Chicago: U of Chicago P, [End Page 169] 2017. xv, 248p., index, $35. Eternal recurrence as an anti-metaphysics that would revalue all values.
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Holland, Ben. The Moral Person of the State: Pufendorf, Sovereignty and Composite Polities. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017. ix, 262p., bibl., index, $99.99. Freedom, personality, and the soul as theologically-based alternatives to Hobbes's secularizing doctrine of fictitious persons.
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Jelley, Jane. Traces of Vermeer. New York: Oxford UP, 2017. xiii, 339p., bibl.,ill., index, $34.95. In the absence of written documents, a painter reconstructs the materials, layering process, and perspective used to depict life and light.
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Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Commerce and Peace in the Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge UP, 2017. xii, 350p., index, $99. Twelve essays on eighteenth-century economic rivalry and the rise of public finance.
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Kindley, Evan. Poet-Critics and the Administration of Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2017. 164p., index, $35. A transition (1920–50) in arts funding from aristocratic patronage to private foundations, universities, and government agencies administered by elite technocrats.
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Kleinberg, Ethan. Haunting History: For a Deconstructive Approach to the Past. Stanford, Cal.: Stanford UP, 2017. x, 189p., index, $24.95. The new digital media present an opportunity to move historical writing and presentation away from ontological realism that sets actors and events in a specific location in space and time.
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Kolozi, Peter. Conservatives Against Capitalism: From the Industrial Revolution to Globalization. New York: Columbia UP, 2017. x, 250p., index, $60. "Movement" conservatives (Russell Kirk, Pat Buchanan, Irving Kristol) skeptical of the social changes wrought by free markets and free trade.
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La Vopa, Anthony J. The Labor of the Mind...
