Books Received

Baldwin, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870–1945. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xii, 959p., bibl., index, $60. Sixty-four essays.

Berkeley, George. The Correspondence of George Berkeley. Ed. Marc A. Hight. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. xxxviii, 674p., bibl., index, $125. Three hundred ninety-three letters from 1706 to 1752.

Cocco, Sean. Watching Vesuvius: A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013. xi, 322p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Geological observation following the 1631 eruption.

Coen, Deborah R. The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013. 348p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Seismology in Scotland, the Alps, and California.

Combes, Muriel. Gilbert Simondon and the Philosophy of the Transindividual. Trans. Thomas LaMarre. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2013. xxii, 119p., $27. How the individual might persist in a “technical” culture.

Costelloe, Timothy M. The Sublime: From Antiquity to the Present. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xiii, 304p., bibl., ill., index, $34.99. Fifteen essays on aesthetics, mostly eighteenth and nineteenth century.

Desmond, William. Philosopher-Kings of Antiquity. New York: Continuum, 2011. viii, 256p., bibl., index, $120. Marcus Aurelius and Julian the Apostate.

Farwell, James P. Persuasion and Power: The Art of Strategic Communication. Washington, D. C.: Georgetown UP, 2012. xxi, 282p., index, $29.95. A primer on propaganda and double-speak.

Fore, Devin. Realism After Modernism: The Rehumanization of Art and Literature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2012. xi, 404p., ill., index, $34.95. Bauhaus art, industrial novels, Brecht’s plays, and interwar political caricatures.

Förster, Eckart and Yitzhak Y. Melamed, eds. Spinoza and German Idealism. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xii, 285p., bibl., index, $99. Fourteen essays on appropriations by Kant, Herder, Goethe, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Trendelenburg.

Goss, Erin M. Revealing Bodies: Anatomy, Allegory, and the Grounds of Knowledge in the Long Eighteenth Century. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell UP, 2013. The subjective experience of physicality in Edmund Burke, William Blake, and Mary Tighe.

Grace, Eve and Christopher Kelly, eds. The Challenge of Rousseau. New York: Cambridge UP, 2013. xi, 330p., index, $99. Fourteen essays attempt to move Rousseau into the mainstream of philosophy.

Greiner, Rae. Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2012. viii, 203p., bibl., index. Adam Smith, Jeremy Bentham, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Henry James.

Hedstrom, Matthew S. The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. 278p., ill., index. Marketing bestsellers for middlebrow psychological spirituality.

Hoppit, Julian, ed. Nehemiah Grew and England’s Economic Development: The Means of a Most Ample Increase of the Wealth and Strength of England, 1706–7. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xlii, 114p., index. Critical edition of a manuscript treatise on political economy.

Hui, Alexandra. The Psychophysical Ear: Musical Experiments, Experimental Sounds, 1840–1910. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2013. xxii, 233p., bibl., ill., index, $34. Romantic era concert performance unifies body (physical hearing) with mind (psychical sensation) in Fechner, Helmholtz, Mach, Wundt, Stumpf.

Isakhan, Benjamin and Stephen Stockwell, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 2012. x, 557p., index, $200. Forty-three essays depict an indigenously global political form, not specifically western.

Jewett, Andrew. Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xii, 402p., index, $99. What it meant to be scientific before the concept of value-free.

Kafka, Ben. The Demon of Writing: Powers and Failures of Paperwork. New York: Zone, 2012. 182p., ill., index, $28.95. Complaints against “bureaucracy” from the French Revolution to Roland Barthes.

Keats, Jonathon. Forged: Why Fakes are the Great Art of Our Age. New York: Oxford UP, 2013. viii, 197p., bibl., index, $19.95. Profiles of forgers by a critic.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks. Ed. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn et al. Volume 6, Journals NB11–NB14. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. xxi, 705p., ill., $150. Translation of Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter, projected in 11 volumes, here 1849.

LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski. Science on American Television: A History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2013. x, 306p., bibl., ill...