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Allison, Henry E. Essays on Kant. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xiv, 287p., bibl., index. Seventeen essays on transcendental idealism, freedom of the will, and teleology.
Anderson, Kevin B., and Russell Rockwell, eds. The Dunayevskaya-Marcuse-Fromm Correspondence, 1954–1978: Dialogues on Hegel, Marx, and Critical Theory. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2012. lix, 267p., index, $34.99. The Frankfurt School.
Badiou, Alain. The Adventure of French Philosophy. New York: Verso, 2012. lxiii, 364p., index. Twenty-two essays, book reviews, and occasional pieces.
Badiou, Alain. The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings. Trans. Gregory Elliott. New York: Verso, 2012. 120p., $19.95. Arab Spring as a call to arms against global capital in the tradition of 1830, 1848, 1917, and 1968.
Barilan, Yechiel Michael. Human Dignity, Human Rights, and Responsibility: The New Language of Global Bioethics and Biolaw. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2012. xiv, 349p., bibl., index. The theological doctrine of imago Dei applied to ethics.
Beeley, Philip, and Christoph J. Scriba, eds. Correspondence of John Wallis (1616–1703). Vol. 3, October 1668–1671. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xiii, 630p., bibl., index. 254 letters of the Oxford geometrician and founding member of the Royal Society.
Beerbohm, Eric. In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2012. xi, 352p., bibl., index, $45. The moral exposure of individual citizens to the failings of their representatives.
Bevir, Mark, ed. Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates Since 1880. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. viii, 255p., index, $95. Ten essays.
Bew, John. Castlereagh: A Life. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xxx, 722p., bibl., index, $39.95. The British foreign secretary during and after Napoleon.
Blanchette, Patricia A. Frege’s Conception of Logic. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xiii, 190p., bibl., index, $74. Thoughts, arithmetic, geometry, models, and metatheory.
Bourdieu, Pierre. Picturing Algeria. Ed. Franz Schultheis and Christine Frisinghelli. New York: Columbia UP, 2012. xvi, 230p., ill., $27.50. Photographs by a soldier in the war, 1954–62.
Braude, Hillel D. Intuition in Medicine: A Philosophical Defense of Clinical Reasoning. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. xxiv, 232p., bibl., ill., index, $45. Aristotelian phronesis and modern statistics.
Brogaard, Berit. Transient Truths: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Propositions. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. ix, 195., bibl., index, $74. The Persistence [End Page 161] of mental states over time and how we represent them semantically through tense logic.
Cantemir, Dimitrie. L’immagine irraffigurabile della Scienza Sacro-Santa. Ed. and trans. Vlad Alexandrescu. Florence: Le Monnier Università, 2012. 490p., index. Latin edition and facing Italian translation of “The undepictable image of sacred science” (ca. 1700) by the prince of Moldavia.
Childers, Christopher. The Failure of Popular Sovereignty: Slavery, Manifest Destiny, and the Radicalization of Southern Politics. Lawrence: UP of Kansas, 2012. xii, 334p., bibl., ill., index, $39.95. The debates over local control of slavery, 1776–1861.
Clark, Maudemarie, and David Dudrick, eds. The Soul of Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xi, 282p., bibl., index, $29.99. Nietzsche as systematic philosopher despite his aphoristic style.
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas Caritat, marquis de. Political Writings Ed. Steven Lukes and Nadia Urbinati. New York. Cambridge UP, 2012. xlv, 209p., index, $29.99. Translations of the Esquisse d’un tableau historique des progrès de l’esprit humain and other texts from the 1790s.
Davies, Bill. Resisting the European Court of Justice: West Germany’s Confrontation with European Law, 1949–1979. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xix, 248p., bibl., index, $99. Constitutional sovereignty conflicts with European integration.
De Duve, Thierry. Sewn in the Sweatshops of Marx: Beuys, Warhol, Klein, Duchamp. Trans. Rosalind E. Krauss. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012. x, 81p., ill., $20. Art as labor and production from the very essence of the artist.
Dueck, Daniela. Geography in Classical Antiquity. New York: Cambridge UP, 2012. xvi, 142p., bibl., ill., index, $29.99. Descriptive, mathematical, and cartographic geography in poetry, inscriptions, and popular knowledge as well as Pliny, Strabo, et al.
Ebbeler, Jennifer. Disciplining Christians: Correction and Community in Augustine’s Letters. New York: Oxford UP, 2012. xii, 254p., bibl., index, $74. Jerome, Paulinus of Nola, the Donatists, and Pelagius.
Epstein, Steven A. The Medieval Discovery of Nature. New York...

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