Books Received

Bass, Marisa Anne. Insect Artifice: Nature and Art in the Dutch Revolt. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2019. xi, 297p., bibl., ill., index, $65. Miniature paintings in the Four Elements manuscripts of Joris Hoefnagel (1542–1600) at the intersection of natural history and post-iconoclastic art.

Beck, Hans. Localism and the Ancient Greek CityState. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. 267p., bibl., ill., index. Attachment to the land, the gods, and home in the pan-Hellenic network.

Bennett, Joshua. God and Progress: Religion and History in British Intellectual Culture, 1845–1914. New York: Oxford UP, 2019. xii, 311p., bibl., index. The historicization of the Bible, the Church, civilization, and empire in an age of revivalism and secularization.

Brown, Michael J. Hope and Scorn: Eggheads, Experts, and Elites in American Politics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. 349p., index, $27.50. Richard Hofstadter, C. Wright Mills, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Christopher Lasch, Irving Kristol, and Cornel West.

Burawoy, Michael. Symbolic Violence: Conversations with Bourdieu. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2019. 226p., bibl., index, $25.95. Class power and cultural domination in twentieth-century Marxist sociology.

Christianson, John Robert. Tycho Brahe and the Measure of the Heavens. London: Reaktion, 2020. 288p., ill., index, $22.50. The observatory of Uraniborg as a Kunst und Wunderkammer comparable to courtly Renaissance culture elsewhere in Europe.

Dainotto, Roberto M. and Frederic Jameson, eds. Gramsci in the World. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2020. 266p., index. Thirteen essays on The Prison Notebooks—or lack of engagement with—in China, the Arab world, the United States, and Europe.

Delton, Jennifer A. The Industrialists: How the National Association of Manufacturers Shaped American Capitalism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2020. xi, 342p., index, $35. Advocacy group champions free enterprise and corporate interests through the rise of US manufacturing to mid-century dominance, then deindustrialization and globalism in the 1990s.

Diamond, Cora. Reading Wittgenstein with Anscombe, Going On to Ethics. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2019. 331p., bibl., index, $39.95. Thinking about thinking and responding when thought has gone wrong.

Delvaux, André. Barthélemy Latomus: Pédagogue et conseiller humaniste (~1497–1570). Geneva: Droz, 2020. 588p., bibl., index. Logic, eloquence, and the art of oratory in religious and legal reasoning during the sixteenth-century Germanic Renaissance and Reformation.

Friedlander, Judith. A Light in Dark Times: The New School for Social Research and Its University in Exile. New York: Columbia UP, 2019. xvii, 457p., ill., index, $40. The early years under Alvin Johnson, then the Graduate Faculty in the late twentieth century.

Gansell, Amy Rebecca and Ann Shafer, eds. Testing the Canon of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology. New York: Oxford UP, 2020. xiv, 418p., bibl., ill, index. Twenty-four historiographical essays critique modern approaches to understanding antiquity.

Goldin, Paul R. The Art of Chinese Philosophy: Eight Classical Texts and How to Read Them. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2020. xi, 341p., bibl., index, $24.95. The Analects of Confucius, Mozi, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuangzi, Sunzi, Xunzi, and Han Feizi.

Gozzi, Gustavo. Rights and Civilizations: A History and Philosophy of International Law. Trans. Filippo Valante. New York: Cambridge UP, 2019. xviii, 379p., index, $125. The rights of nations in ius gentium from the Spanish conquest of the New World to the Third World, Islam, and human rights.

Gurukkal, Rajan. History and Theory of Knowledge Production. New Delhi: Oxford UP, 2019. x, 308p., bibl., index. The coexistence of codified knowledge systems in several Asian regions until the imposition of European knowledge during colonialism.

Güthenke, Constanze. Feeling and Classical Philology: Knowing Antiquity in German Scholarship, 1770–1920. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. xviii, 323p., bibl., ill., index, $99.99. Biography and longing for antiquity as central to individual Bildung, from F. A. Wolf to Wilamowitz.

Haffemayer, Stéphane. Les Lumières radicales de la Révolution anglaise: Samuel Hartlib et les réseaux de l'Intelligence (1600–1660). Paris: Garnier, 2018. 640p,. bibl., ill., index, 69 €. The "Intelligencer" and the advancement of learning in the English civil war and empirical science.

Hetherington, Stephen, gen. ed. The Philosophy of Knowledge: A History. 4 vols. New York: Bloomsbury, 2019. 1,040p., indices. Forty-nine essays in four volumes (ancient, medieval, modern, contemporary) survey epistemology from the pre-Socratics to the present focusing on individuals and schools of thought.

Holyoak, Keith J. The Spider's Thread: Metaphor in Mind, Brain, and Poetry. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT P, 2019. xvii, 270p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Analogy and conceptual combination in psychology and literature.

Howes, Anton. Arts and Minds: How the Royal Society of Arts Changed a Nation. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2020. 387p., bibl., ill., index, $35. Utilitarian programs of social reform from the archives of the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.

Hutcheson, Francis. Philosophical Writings: Essays on Ethics, Taste, Laughter, Politics, Economics. Ed. Robin Downie. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2019. 211p., bibl., index, £25. Anthology from treatises on aesthetics and moral philosophy, originally Everyman 1994.

Kelty, Christopher M. The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2019. 326p., bibl., ill., index. Ethnology of agency and refusal in industrial, educational, agricultural, and political organizational systems.

Kierkegaard, Søren. Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks. Volume 11, part 2: Loose Papers, 1843–1855. Ed. N. J. Cappelørn et al. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2020. xlviii, 731p., ill., $150. From Either/Or to final reflections on "Christendom."

Kotrosits, Maia. The Lives of Objects: Material Culture, Experience, and the Real in the History of Early Christianity. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. 242p., bibl., index. Ruins, monuments, bodies, and eroticism in cultural and literary theory.

Kraebel, Andrew. Biblical Commentary and Translation in Later Medieval England: Experiments in Interpretation. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. xiv, 302p., bibl., ill., index, $99.99. John Wyclif, Richard Rolle, and Middle English Matthew commentaries.

Landauer, Matthew. Dangerous Counsel: Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2019. viii, 240p., bibl., ill., index. Declamations, debates, and demagoguery in Herodotus, Thucydides, and Plato's Gorgias.

Mangrum, Benjamin. Land of Tomorrow: Postwar Fiction and the Crisis of American Liberalism. New York: Oxford UP, 2019. x, 203p., index. The activist-managerial state of the New Deal cast as enfeebling, alienating, and latently tyrannical, to be replaced with self-management, authenticity, and private judgments of value.

Maudlin, Tim. Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2019. xiii, 233p., bibl., ill., index, $24.95. Wavefunction, particle theory, and Many Worlds.

Mayse, Ariel Evan and Sam Berrin Shonkoff, eds. Hasidism: Writings on Devotion, Community, and Life in the Modern World. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2020. xxx, 305p., index. Anthology of 37 texts from the Ba'al Shem Tov to the voices of contemporary Hasidic women.

Merchant, Carolyn. The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2020. xvi, 212p., bibl., ill., index. The awareness of human-induced environmental transformation in art, literature, religion, and philosophy.

Moore, Scott H. How To Burn a Goat: Farming With the Philosophers. Waco, Tex.: Baylor UP, 2019. The scatological meditations of a philosopher who bought a farm.

O'Gorman, Ned. Politics for Everybody: Reading Hannah Arendt in Uncertain Times. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. xv, 173p., bibl., ill., index. Happiness for private individuals depends on social conditions.

Pearce, Trevor. Pragmatism's Evolution: Organism and Environment in American Philosophy. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. xiii, 365p., ill., index. Darwinism and social Darwinism in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century US education, post-Hegelian idealism, ethics, and pragmatism.

Perrakis, Manos, ed. Musik und Lebensphilosophie. Studien zur Wertungsforschung, no. 64. Graz: Institut für Musikästhetik, 2020. 166p. Nine essays on the reception, valuation, and judgment of music.

Pietrzyk-Reeves, Dorota. Polish Republican Discourse in the Sixteenth Century. Ideas in Context, no. 129. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. vii, 268p., bibl., index, $99.99. The development of a republican language of politics from ancient rhetoric and affinities with Venetian, Florentine, and English counterparts.

Pinto, Sarah. The Doctor and Mrs. A.: Ethics and CounterEthics in an Indian Dream Analysis. New York: Fordham UP, 2020. 242p., bibl., index, $28. Gender, sexuality, feminism, and psychiatry in late colonialism (1940s).

Rampton, Vanessa. Liberal Ideas in Tsarist Russia: From Catherine the Great to the Russian Revolution. Ideas in Context, no. 126. New York: Cambridge UP, 2020. ix, 229p., bibl., index, $99.99. The Kadet party of 1905, its nineteenth-century genealogy, and its legacy to 1917.

Sauter, Michael J. The Spatial Reformation: Euclid Between Man, Cosmos, and God. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2019. xv, 327p., bibl., ill., index. The concept of three-dimensional space, a construct of the human imagination, from 1350 to 1850.

Schabas, Margaret and Carl Wennerlind. A Philosopher's Economist: Hume and the Rise of Capitalism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. xv, 316p., bibl., index. David Hume on property, money, trade, and public finance.

Serber, Robert. The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb. Intro. Richard Rhodes. Oakland: U of California P, 2020. xlii, 115p., ill., index, $17.95. Five lectures as an indoctrination course sketching the principles and goals of the Manhattan Project in 1943; first published 1992.

Stroumsa, Sarah. Andalus and Sefarad: On Philosophy and Its History in Islamic Spain. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2020. xvii, 220p., bibl., index, $35. The development of Neoplatonism and Aristotelianism in Jewish and Muslim philosophy.

Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers. Church State Corporation: Construing Religion in US Law. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. xi, 210p., bibl., index. Twenty-first century Supreme Court rulings on religious organizations as exempt from federal regulations.

Wayland-Smith, Ellen. The Angel in the Marketplace: Adwoman Jean Wade Rindlaub and the Selling of America. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2020. 273p., ill., index, $30. Advertising domesticity on Madison Ave., 1920s to 1960s.

Werrett, Simon. Thrifty Science: Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2019. x, 315p., bibl., ill., index. Household items like sour beer repurposed in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century empirical science.