Books Received

Adamson, Peter. Philosophy in the Islamic World. Vol. 3 of A History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. xxiii, 511p., bibl., index. From ad 632 to the twentieth century.

Barbier, Frédéric. Gutenberg’s Europe: The Book and the Invention of Western Modernity. Trans. Jean Birrell. Malden, Mass.: Polity, 2016. xiv, 312p., ill., index. Economic, social, and political analysis of the fifteenth century as “the age of start-ups” and the media revolution of the sixteenth century. Originally French, 2006.

Bartlett, Robert C. Sophistry and Political Philosophy: Protagoras’ Challenge to Socrates. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2016. 248p., bibl., index, $40. The origins of relativism in the Protagoras and Theaetetus.

Beynon, Graham. Isaac Watts: Reason, Passion and the Revival of Religion. New York: Bloomsbury T and T Clark, 2016. viii, 202p., bibl., index, $128. The dissenting minister sought a new reformation in the wake of the “departed glory” of the Church.

Brockliss, Laurence and Ritchie Robertson, eds. Isaiah Berlin and the Enlightenment. New York: Oxford UP, 2016. xiv, 258p., bibl., index. Sixteen essays on Berlin’s eighteenth-century sources and his twentieth-century contemporaries.

Browne, Stephen Howard. The Ides of War: George Washington and the Newburgh Crisis. Columbia: U of South Carolina P, 2016. xiii, 138p., bibl., index, $44.99. Disaffected military officers nearly staged a coup d’état in 1783.

Conze, Edward. The Principle of Contradiction. Trans. Holgar R. Heine, foreword Graham Priest. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2016. lxxv, 483p., bibl., index. A book burned in 1933 on the material conditions of theoretical knowledge.

Desan, Philippe. Montaigne: A Life. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017. xxxv, 796p., bibl., ill., index, $39.95. The Essays in four editions and their author in different contexts over the sixteenth century.

Everson, Jane E., Denis V. Reidy, and Lisa Sampson, eds. The Italian Academies, 1525–1700: Networks of Culture, Innovation and Dissent. Cambridge: Modern Humanities Research Association and New York: Routledge, 2016. viii, 348p., bibl., ill., index. Eighteen essays on intellectual societies and their relationship to political power and the arts.

Hanssen, Jens and Max Weiss, eds. Arabic Thought beyond the Liberal Age: Towards an Intellectual History of the Nahda. New York: Cambridge UP, 2016. xxiii, 437p., bibl., index, $120. Fourteen studies of the nineteenth-century “rising up” in the Arabic territories of the Ottoman Empire.

Hayden, Judy A., ed. Literature in the Age of Celestial Discovery: From Copernicus to Flamsteed. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. ix, 224p., bibl., ill., index, $95. Nine essays on science and fiction in the seventeenth century.

Hösle, Vittorio. A Short History of German Philosophy. Trans. Steven Rendall. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2017. xxiii, 275p., index, $35. From Meister Eckhart and Nicolas of Cusa to Gadamer, the Frankfurt School, and Hans Jonas.

Ihalainen, Pasi, Cornelia Ilie, and Kari Palonen, eds. Parliament and Parliamentarism: A Comparative History of a European Concept. New York: Berghahn, 2016. xi, 327p., index, $110. Eighteen essays on representative government in the various national contexts, parliamentary discourse, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century political theory.

Irvin-Erickson, Douglas. Raphaël Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2017. 312p., index, $59.95. Intellectual biography of the Polish lawyer who sought to expand the laws of war to protect people from their own governments.

Khawaja, Noreen. The Religion of Existence: Asceticism in Philosophy from Kierkegaard to Sartre. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2017. ix, 306p., index, $45. Personal authenticity in existentialism as a secular thought experiment with the traditions of European Christianity.

Kidd, Colin. The World of Mr. Casaubon: Britain’s Wars of Mythography, 1700–1870. Ideas in Context, vol. 115. New York: Cambridge UP, 2016. vi, 232p., index, $49.99. George Eliot’s Middlemarch pedant represents the use of pagan myth to defend Christianity from Enlightenment free-thinking.

Kern, Andrea. Sources of Knowledge: On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge. Trans. Daniel Smyth. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2017. 295p., bibl., index, $35. The problem of error and the possibility of epistemological certainty.

Lang, Berel. Genocide: The Act as Idea. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2017. 209p., bibl., index, $24.95. A reading of objections to the term since the United Nations Convention of...