Books Received

Bacon, Francis. The Historie of the raigne of King Henry the seventh and other works of the 1620s. Ed. Michael Kiernan. Oxford: Clarendon, 2012. cxliii, 702p., bibl., index. Also Henry VIII, Holy War, Apophthegmes, and Psalms, with extensive commentaries.

Baring, Edward. The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 1945–1968. New York: Cambridge UP, 2011. xi, 326p., bibl., index, $95. The post-existentialist origins of deconstruction.

Belmessous, Saliha, ed. Native Claims: Indigenous Law against Empire, 1500–1920. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. 278p., ill., index, $74. Ten essays on legal strategies to resist colonial dispossession.

Bentham, Jeremy. Church-of-Englandism and Its Catechism Examined. Ed. James E. Crimmins and Catherine Fuller. The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xxx, 652p., indices, $160. Edition of the 1817 text.

Braver, Lee. Groundless Grounds: A Study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2012. xvi, 354p., bibl., index, $38. The finitude of being human.

Calhoun, Craig. The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. xii, 425p., bibl., index.

Craiutu, Aurelian. A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. xix, 338p., index, $49.50. Montesquieu, Jacques Necker, Mme. de Staël, and Benjamin Constant.

Copenhaver, Brian P. and Rebecca Copenhaver. From Kant to Croce: Modern Philosophy in Italy 1800–1950. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2012. ix, 859p., bibl., index, $115. Anthology of twenty-six translated readings plus a comprehensive introduction.

Corneanu, Sorana. Regimens of the Mind: Boyle, Locke, and the Early Modern Cultura Animi Tradition. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. ix, 308p., bibl., index. The cultivation of the soul through moral considerations in seventeenth-century experimental philosophy.

Elm, Susanna. Sons of Hellenism, Fathers of the Church: Emperor Julian, Gregory of Nazianzus, and the Vision of Rome. Berkeley: U of California P, 2012. xviii, 553p., bibl., index. The common intellectual and social grounding between the bishop and the neo-pagan in the eastern empire in the 360s.

Ffytche, Matt. The Foundation of the Unconscious: Schelling, Freud and the Birth of the Modern Psyche. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. ix, 310p., bibl., index, $99. Post-enlightenment liberal individualism before The Interpretation of Dreams.

Förster, Eckart. The Twenty-Five Years of Philosophy: A Systematic Reconstruction. Trans. Brady Bowman. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2012. xi, 408p., bibl., index. From the Critique of Pure Reason to the Phenomenology of Spirit.

Fyfe, Aileen. Steam-Powered Knowledge: William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820–1860. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. xvi, 313p., bibl., ill., index. Steam technology applied to printing, distribution, and communication over land and sea.

Grayzel, Susan R. At Home and Under Fire: Air Raids and Culture in Britain from the Great War to the Blitz. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xii, 343p., bibl., ill., index, $99. Zeppelin raids in 1915 and the classification of women and children as “civilians.”

Gregory, Brad S. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 2012. 574p., index. Hyper-pluralism, the unmooring of any common good, and consumer-driven capitalism as the consequences of Protestantism.

Hanegraaff, Wouter J. Esotericism and the Academy: Rejected Knowledge in Western Culture. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. x, 468p., bibl., index, $110. From Pico to Frances Yates.

Harper, William L. Isaac Newton’s Scientific Method: Turning Data into Evidence about Gravity and Cosmology. New York: Oxford UP, 2011. xviii, 424p., bibl., ill., index. Empirical answers to theoretical questions in Principia Mathematica’s argumentation.

Horowitz, Daniel. Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2012. xi, 491p., ill., index, $34.95. Social critics in Europe and the U. S. engage and embrace American style, sexuality, and consumption.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Kierkegaard’s Journals and Notebooks. Ed. Niels Jørgen Cappelørn et al. Volume 4, Journals NB-NB5, and Volume 5, Journals NB6-NB10. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. xxi, 674p. and xxi, 580p. Translation of Søren Kierkegaards Skrifter, projected in 55 volumes, here 1846–1848.

Kleingeld, Pauline. Kant and Cosmopolitanism: The Philosophical Ideal of World Citizenship. New York: Cambridge...