Books Received

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Anderson, Mark. From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2019. ix, 262p., bibl., ill., index. Assimilation, diversity, the rise of Black Studies and the reinvention of anthropology.

Bennett, Joshua. God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914. New York: Oxford UP, 2019. xii, 311p., bibl., index. The contemplation of imperial Britain’s place in the world in an age of Protestant religious awakening.

Buckland, Adelene and Sadiah Qureshi, eds. Time Travelers: Victorian Encounters with Time and History. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. xxvii, 285p., ill., index. Twelve essays explore the quest for human and natural prehistory in nineteenth-century literature, museums, and popular science.

Conti, Gregory. Parliament the Mirror of the Nation: Representation, Deliberation, and Democracy in Victorian Britain. Ideas in Context, 119. New York: Cambridge UP, 2019. xi, 408p, bibl., index, $120. Proportional representation and the variety of suffrages.

Daston, Lorraine. Against Nature. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2019. 78p., ill., $13.95. Seeking the moral order in the natural order.

Gattei, Stefano, ed. and trans. On the Life of Galileo: Viviani’s Historical Account and other Early Biographies. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2019. lxviii, 348p., bibl., ill., index, $49.95. Fourteen texts from the seventeenth-century in facing-page translation from Italian, French, and Latin to English.

Gersh, Stephen, ed. Plotinus’s Legacy: The Transformation of Platonism from the Renaissance to the Modern Era. New York: Cambridge UP, 2019. vii, 298p., index, $99.99. Ten essays on the Italian Renaissance, sixteenth-century France, the Cambridge Platonists, German Romanticism, and modern scholarship.

Gordon, Lyndall. Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2019. x, 338p., bibl., ill., index, $29.95. Short biographies of Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, and Virginia Woolf.

Grafton, Anthony. Inky Fingers: The Making of Books in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 2020. 379p., ill, index. Practices of manual and intellectual labor as scholars and artisan/craftsmen worked side by side to build the media of knowledge in the sixteenth and seventeenth century.

Granada, Miguel Ángel and Dario Tessicini, eds. Giordano Bruno, De Immenso: Letture Critiche. Bruniana e Campanelliana, Supplementi 44, Studi 19. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2020. 292p., index. Eleven authors offer book-by-book readings of the 1591 prose-verse cosmology and its arguments against Aristotelian planetary motion, the finitude of the universe, and the uniqueness of the world.

Hayes, Bruce. Hostile Humor in Renaissance France. Newark: U of Delaware P, 2020. xi, 218p., bibl., index. Satire and ridicule in theater, pamphlets, and polemics on the eve of the French Wars of Religion.

Hollander, Samuel. A History of Utilitarian Ethics: Studies in Private Motivation and Distributive Justice, 1700–1875. New York: Routledge, 2020. xxiii, 400p., index. Locke, moral sense philosophy, Smith, Bentham, Malthus, and Mill.

Jendrysik, Mark Stephan. Utopia. Medford, Mass.: Polity, 2020. viii, 125p., bibl., index. Annotated bibliography of political thought experiments from Thomas More to Edward Bellamy and twentieth-century dystopia.

Kareklas, Iacovos. Thucydides on International Law and Political Theory. Lanham, Md.: Lexington, 2020. ix, 188p., bibl., index. Political realism, just war theory, and strategic thinking in the fifth century B.C.E.

Kaymaz, Nazli Pinar. British Idealism and International Thought: The Development of Human Rights. Exeter, U.K.: Imprint Academic, 2020. vii, 253p., bibl., index, £30. Thomas Hill Greene and the ethics of imperialism from the Boer Wars to the League of Nations.

Klibansky, Raymond, Erwin Panofsky, and Fritz Saxl. Saturn and Melancholy: Studies in the History of Natural Philosophy, Religion, and Art. New ed. Phillippe Despoix and Georges Leroux. Montreal: McGill-Queens UP, 2019. xxxviii, 489p., ill., index, $55. Albrecht Dürer’s Melencolia I in the context of humoral and Scholastic medicine and medieval iconography and its legacy in imitation. (Originally 1964, Italian 1983, French 1989, German 1990.)

Lennox, John C. 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2020. 239p., index, $19.99. An argument for the existence of God.

Marmur, Michael and David Ellenson, eds. American Jewish Thought Since 1934: Writings on Identity, Engagement, and Belief. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2020. xv, 317p., index. Anthology of 79 readings presents North American Judaism as a distinct movement.

Newell, Catherine L. Destined for the Stars: Faith, the Future, and America’s Final Frontier. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2019. xi, 292p., bibl., ill., index, $45. The U. S. space program (1944–55) as less a technological and economic achievement than a divine calling to settle new frontiers.

Nicholls, Julia. Revolutionary Thought After the Paris Commune, 1871–1885. Ideas in Context, 122. New York: Cambridge UP, 2019. vii, 309p., bibl., index, $99.99. How exiled revolutionaries rebuilt an intellectually flexible movement in the changed circumstances of France’s new Third Republic.

Nussbaum, Martha C. The Cosmopolitan Tradition: A Noble but Flawed Ideal. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 2019. 309p., index, $27.95. The bifurcation of the duty of justice toward persons and the duty of aiding their material needs.

Outram, Dorinda. Four Fools in the Age of Reason: Laughter, Cruelty, and Power in Early Modern Germany. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2019. x, 167p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Court fools Jacob Paul Gundling (1673–1731), Joseph Fröhlich (1694–1757), Salomon Jacob Morgenstern (170–-85), and Peter Prosch (1744–1804).

Peterson, Mark. The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2019. xviii, 741p., ill., index, $39.95. An autonomous city and hinterland and its integration into the confederated United States.

Rée, Jonathan. Witchcraft: The Invention of Philosophy in English. xiii, 746p., ill., index, $37.50. Anecdotal history of philosophy centered around Bacon, Hobbes, Locke, Adam Smith, William Hazlitt, Mill, James, and Wittgenstein.

Scott, Joan Wallach. In the Name of History. New York: Central European UP, 2020. 133p., bibl., index. The past repudiated at the Nuremberg Trials (1946), South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (1996), and reparations for slavery in the United States.

Scott, John T. Rousseau’s Reader: Strategies of Persuasion and Education. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. ix, 328p., bibl., index. The self-conscious selection of genre, voice, and literary device in the Discourses, Emile, and The Social Contract.

Spires, Derrick R. The Practice of Citizenship: Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2019. 3412p., bibl., ill., index. Black activism from the Free Africa Society of Absalom Jones and Richard Allen to the Anglo-African Magazine in the 1850s.

VanDrunen, David. Politics After Christendom: Political Theology in a Fractured World. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 2020. 400p, index, $29.99. “The relationship of God’s people to the . . . governments of this world.”

Yoder, Douglas. Tanakh Epistemology: Knowledge and Power, Religious and Secular. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. xvi, 407p., bibl., index, $99.99. Revelation in the Hebrew Bible and misreadings of it in early modern philosophy.