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An Amazon Editors Pick for Best Book of 2009 A Time Out New York Gift Book of 2009 A Seminary Co-op Best Book of 2009
An Entertainment Weekly Shelf Life Best Book of 2009
A New Literary History of America brings together the nations many voicesT. J. Clark, Camille Paglia, Jonathan Lethem, Sarah Vowell, Gish Jen, and othersin more than two hundred original essays. Literature, music, film, art, history, science, philosophy, political rhetoriccultural creations of every kind appear in over 200 essays. Please visit our book feature: www.newliteraryhistory.com [An] essential, eclectic doorstop anthology.
NEW YORK MAGAZINE
A New Literary History of America gives us what amounts to a fractal geometry of American culture. You can focus on any one spot and get a sense of the whole or pull back and watch the larger patterns appear. What you see isnt the past so much as the present.
WES DAVIS, WALL STREET JOURNAL
The feel of the whole is epicBy the time I had made my way through about a third of this book I began to feel an emotion that comes but rarely to a reviewer: pride. Not pride in Americas politics or policies necessarily, but pride in our speech.
LARRY MCMURTRY, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
This magnificent volume is a vast, inquisitive, richly surprising and consistently enlightening wallow in our national history and cultureThis book is not so much a history of our literature as it is a literary version of our history, told through the culture weve created to recount our past and conjure our future.
LAURA MILLER, SALON Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library 2009 27 halftones 1128 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03594-2
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L IPSTICK T RACES A Secret History of the Twentieth Century

GREIL MARCUS
For anybody who wants to go deeper into the ontology of an idea that animates a kind of music, or is illuminated by that music, read Greil Marcuss Lipstick Traces, just reissued in an expanded edition for the books twentieth anniversary. I often say that Traces is the best book ever written about music, even though its not actually about music: it is about the life of an idea.
SASHA FRERE-JONES, NEW YORKER ONLINE Belknap 2009 59 halftones, 25 line illus. 496 pp. Paper $24.95 / COBE ISBN 978-0-674-03480-8
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KENNETH GRAHAME
Edited by Seth Lerer A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009
Lerers book perform[s] magic. [It] demonstrates how much of a writers life can wind up distilled in a stack of paperin this case, how Kenneth Grahames daydreams, fears, heartbreak, upbringing, era and locale all sneaked into a fanciful childrens book about talking animalsLerers preface is a thoughtful and elegant survey of the biographical and literary context for this beloved book.
MICHAEL SIMS, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
[An] exquisite new annotated edition of Kenneth Grahames masterpieceIt takes us into a premodern world of lyrical beauty, with animals that behave like humans, landscapes that are painted for us rather than described, and language more literary than spokenRereading this volume, which Harvard University Press has given all the high production values it deserves, led me to understand more fully the soporific effects of The Wind in the Willows on children.
MARIA TATAR, GLOBE AND MAIL
For all its apparent celebration of neatness and domestic orderliness The Wind in the Willows is really a book about letting go. It begins with Mole, tired of spring cleaning, putting aside his whitewash brush and taking to the road, and its true hero is Toad, who is anarchy incarnate.
CHARLES MCGRATH, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
One of the delights of this edition is the collection of beautiful illustrations from each edition, from Nancy Barnharts wonderful 1922 version to Arthur Rackhams in 1940, as well as Paul Bransoms deliciously weird 1913 images for Scribners.
LAWRENCE OSBORNE, FORBES Belknap 2009 23 color illus., 12 black and white halftones, 24 line illus. 288 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03447-1 New
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CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY
This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth centurys greatest playwrights, Arthur Miller, whose postwar decade of work earned him international critical and popular acclaim. Christopher Bigsbys gripping, meticulously researched biography examines his refusal to name names before the notorious House on Un-American Activities Committee, offers new insights into Millers marriage to Marilyn Monroe, and sheds new light on how their relationship informed Millers subsequent great plays. [A] colossal biographyThis is a fat, endlessly informative book, the work of a lifetimeIt is as definitive as we are likely to get, with plenty of new material. It also reveals much more than Miller did in his autobiography, Timebends. Above all, it is a book about the puzzle of politics and art and about the unreliable solution provided by sexor Marilyn Monroe as it was once called.
BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES
[A] meteor-size new biographyBigsbys book is crammed with piquant details.

DWIGHT GARNER, NEW YORK TIMES 2009 44 halftones 776 pp. Cloth $35.00 / USA ISBN 978-0-674-03505-8
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A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009
Sen is a world-renowned economist and one of the greatest public intellectuals of India, who has been a leading voice for social and economic reforms, breaking new ground in the analysis of gender inequality, famine, and illiteracy. Sens range is amazing. His intimacy with the Hindu, Buddhist, and Muslim cultures of India, which is beautifully woven into the book, gives him access to a far greater range of argumentation and reasoning than is common among philosophers who were educated exclusively in the Western analytical tradition.
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M EANING OF S IN AND F AITH With On My Religion

JOHN RAWLS
Edited by Thomas Nagel; with commentaries by Joshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, and by Robert Merrihew Adams
No recent secular moralist has been more influential than John Rawls[A Brief Inquiry into the Meaning of Sin and Faith] undoubtedly reveals an interesting stage in the development of a highly significant philosopher.
ANTHONY KENNY, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
In the courtliest of tones, Sen charges John Rawlswith sending political thinkers up a tortuous blind alleySuch a spirited attack against possibly the most influential English-speaking political philosopher of the past 100 years will alone excite attention. The Idea of Justice serves also as a commanding summation of Sens own work on economic reasoning and on the elements and measurement of human well-beingThe Idea of Justice is a feast.
THE ECONOMIST Belknap 2009 496 pp. Cloth $29.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03613-0
Allows us to see how a very intelligent believer, who once considered the priesthood, lost his Christian faith as a young man.
JAMES WOOD, NEW YORKER 2010; 2009 288 pp. Cloth $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03331-3 Paper $16.95 / 12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04753-2
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MICHAEL HARDT AND ANTONIO NEGRI
With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articulating a possible constitution for our common wealth. Everyone seems to agree that our economic system is broken, yet the debate about alternatives remains oppressively narrow. Hardt and Negri explode this claustrophobic debate, taking readers to the deepest roots of our current crises and proposing radical, and deeply human, solutions. There has never been a better time for this book.
NAOMI KLEIN, AUTHOR OF THE SHOCK DOCTRINE
Commonwealth, last and richest of the Empire trilogy, is a powerful and ambitious reappropriation of the whole tradition of political theory for the Left. Clarifying Foucaults ambiguous notion of biopower, deepening the authors own proposal for the notion of multitude, it offers an exhilarating summa of the forms and possibilities of resistance today. It is a politically as well as an intellectually invigorating achievement.
Empire Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
2001; 2000 504 pp. Paper $24.00 / 17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00671-3 FREDRIC JAMESON, DUKE UNIVERSITY
Commonwealth [is] the much-anticipated final volume of the Empire trilogy.

ARTFORUM Belknap 2009 448 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03511-9
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On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture

PAUL GILROY
Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding of W. E. B. Du Boiss intellectual and political legacy. At a time of economic crisis, environmental degradation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate over human rights, how should we reassess the changing place of black culture? Paul Gilroys most important gift to cultural criticism is the deft manner in which he finds novel ways to explicate his great concern: the interweaving of ethics and aesthetics, through the example of the African American tradition. In Darker than Blue, Gilroy brilliantly examines some basic tensions within African American culturein particular the changing relation, over the past halfcentury especially, between expressions of group consciousness and atomistic individualism. Gilroy is delightfully curious and rigorously analytical, making this book a pleasure to read and to argue with. It reaffirms his position as one of the leading cultural critics of our time.
HENRY LOUIS GATES JR., HARVARD UNIVERSITY Belknap / The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures 2010 224 pp. Cloth $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03570-6
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T HE D IALECTIC OF C OUNTER E NLIGHTENMENT

CHRISTIAN THORNE
At its heart, The Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment is a plea not to take doubt at its worda plea for the return of a vanished philosophical intelligence and for the retirement of an anti-Enlightenment thinking that commits, over and over again, the very crimes that it lays at Enlightenments door. Although thoughtful and carefully contextualized, Thornes claims are delivered with the wit and sense of repartee of a brilliant conversationalist, almost as if Samuel Johnson were resurrected to join the fray of posttheory debates.
GEORGE HOFFMANN, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
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ROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS
Here, in a major addition to American studies and the first book-length philosophical treatment of Du Boiss thought, Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual foundations of Du Boiss interpretation of black politics. Gooding-Williams brings to his rich and original study of twentieth (and twenty-first) century African American thought a philosophers respect for argument, a historians appreciation of context and influence, a writers care for fine and textured readings, and a political theorists concern with power, identity, and democracy. This is an extraordinary book, one that will elicit gratitude as well as admiration for its thoroughness, intelligence, and measure.
WENDY BROWN, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
The Dialectic of Counter-Enlightenment reminds us that literary studies matter: this field can illuminate the very biggest questions, in this case the very form and future of thought itself.
HELEN DEUTSCH, UCLA
This thoroughly original book is not only the most sophisticated philosophical study to date of Du Boiss early thought, but it is also a provocative and noteworthy contribution to the contemporary debate over the content and contours of black politics in the post-segregation era.
TOMMIE SHELBY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY 2009 368 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03526-3
Christian Thornes delightful and stimulating [book] manages a stunning achievement. You begin reading in the presence of such an engaging and encouraging narrative voice that you feel as if you are negotiating the trickiest Adornian turns without training wheels, only to realize, as the argument twists and soars, that you have been strapped into the Batmobile all along. However sure you are of your take on Montaigne, the emergence of utopian literature, seventeenth century theater, Hobbes, eighteenth century satire or the rise of the novel, this book will unsettle it.
CRYSTAL L. BARTOLOVICH, SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 2010 390 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03522-5
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P HILOSOPHY, P OLITICS , D EMOCRAC Y Selected Essays

JOSHUA COHEN
Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues facing the American public: campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and robust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of democracies to address important practical problems. In this highly anticipated volume, Cohen draws on this work to develop an argument about what he calls, following John Rawls, democracys public reason. With arguments that have long been at the cutting edge of political philosophy, Joshua Cohen develops a distinctive conception of democracy as based upon reasongiving among equals, and he does so in a way that never ignores political reality. Daily political discourse, Cohen argues, contains conceptions of the social world that border on philosophical thought. Good philosophical argument develops those conceptions more rigorously and generally, and then returns to the world of politics to show how the conception might be realized there. All too often, Cohen observes, we respond to political ideals with a knowing irony of the intellect and a lassitude of the heart. Realistic without cynicism, idealistic without navet, Cohens book responds to the real world with rigorous intellectual aspiration and undaunted practical hope.
MARTHA C. NUSSBAUM, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Cohen is the leading political philosopher of deep democracy of his generation. This book is profound, subtle, and relevant. We need his wise and powerful voice in this age of Obama.
New in paperback CORNEL WEST, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 2009 408 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03448-8 New
T HE C ASE AGAINST P ERFECTION Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering

MICHAEL J. SANDEL
M INERVAS O WL The Tradition of Western Political Thought

JEFFREY ABRAMSON
Sandels arguments ultimately speak to our gut-level qualms about enhancement; and his aim in fact is to give these qualms a coherent moral basisSandel wants us at least to think about the line [between health and enhancement], however imaginaryand to think about where, in a hyper-competitive world, re-engineering our natures will ultimately lead.
MICHELE PRIDMORE-BROWN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
This book serves as a lively and accessible guide for readers discovering the tradition of political thought that dates back to Socrates and Plato. A splendid book. I cant imagine a better way to introduce general readers and students to the study of politics.
MICHAEL WALZER, INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY
Sandel reminds us that the proper starting point for bioethics is not, what should we do? but rather, what kind of society do we want? And what kind of people are we?
FAITH MCLELLAN, THE SCIENTIST Belknap 2009; 2007 176 pp. Cloth $20.00 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01927-0 Paper $12.95 / 9.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03638-3
Abramson bestows upon readers the benefit of his decades of teaching political philosophy[with] straightforward and lucid explorations of the canonical thinkers.
STEVEN CHABOT, LIBRARY JOURNAL 2009 400 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03265-1
Radical Hope Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation Jonathan Lear

2008; 2006 4 halftones 208 pp. Paper $15.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02746-6
Unmaking the Public University The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class Christopher Newfield
2008 9 line illus., 10 tables 408 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02817-3
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K ANT AND THE L IMITS OF A UTONOMY

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T HE F ORM OF P RACTIC AL K NOWLEDGE A Study of the Categorical Imperative

STEPHEN ENGSTROM
Stephen Engstrom provides an illuminating new interpretation of the categorical imperative, arguing that we have exaggerated and misconceived Kants break with tradition: Kant never departs from the classical conception of practical reason as a capacity for knowledge of the good. By developing an account of practical knowledge that situates Kants ethics within his broader epistemology and rethinks numerous topics in his moral psychology and in his account of practical reason (including desire, intention, choice, will, as well as pleasure, happiness, and the good), Engstroms work promises to deepen and to reshape our understanding of Kantian ethics. Stephen Engstrom provides a highly original interpretation of the categorical imperative as the criterion of rational knowledge and action. In focusing on the general formula and the law-ofnature variant, and trying to make them work, the book presents a welcome counterweight to currently fashionable interpretations that dismiss these formulations in favour of the second variation, commonly called the formula of humanity.
JENS TIMMERMANN, UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS 2009 278 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03287-3 New
Kant and the Limits of Autonomy is both a rigorous, philosophically and historically informed study of Kantian autonomy and an extended meditation on the foundation and limits of modern liberalism. Susan Shells commitment to bringing the pre-critical together with the critical writings, and to exploring questions of development without losing track of overall coherence in Kants philosophical adventures, demonstrates that she is at the cutting edge of Kant scholarship.
JOHN H. ZAMMITO, RICE UNIVERSITY
Not only a magnificent work of scholarship, this book is exceptionally well-written and a pleasure to read.
PETER FENVES, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 2009 444 pp. Cloth $55.00 / 40.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03333-7 New in paperback
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Kants Legal and Political Philosophy

ARTHUR RIPSTEIN
This book is both an illumination of Kants thought and an important contribution to contemporary legal and political theory. This is one of the best books on Kants legal philosophy to appear to date. It is both an outstanding commentary on Kant and an important work of legal-political philosophy with much contemporary relevance. What is perhaps most impressive about this book is how much unity it uncovers in Kants legal and political thought.
MARTIN J. STONE, BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW
BrilliantI wish every philosopher wrote like Appiah. Experiments in Ethics is clear and accessible (and often very funny), and Appiah is generous when it comes to discussing the work of those he disagrees with. But this book has teeth, particularly when Appiah looks hard at the emphasis on moral dilemmas.
PAUL BLOOM, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
This masterful treatment of Kants legal and political philosophy gets to the heart of Kants endeavor and its virtues with wonderful clarity a terrific achievement.
A. JOHN SIMMONS, UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 2009 416 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03506-5
What can experimentation in the human and natural sciences contribute to moral philosophy? Appiahs answer in this concise and balanced book is effectively something but not everything. Reconnecting the empirical with moral theory may, he argues, have productive consequences for both areas of thought.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College 2009; 2008 288 pp. Paper $15.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03457-0
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D OES E THICS H AVE A C HANCE IN A W ORLD OF C ONSUMERS ?

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN
T HE S ECOND P ERSON S TANDPOINT Morality, Respect, and Accountability

STEPHEN DARWALL
Gracefully, provocatively, Zygmunt Bauman urges us to think in new ways about a newly flexible, newly challenging modern world. As Bauman notes, quoting Vaclav Havel, hope is not a prognostication. It is, alongside courage and will, a mundane, common weapon that is too seldom used. Baumans voice is as exemplary as it is powerful. He writes not only in Max Webers spirit, but also in that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. This is a very important collection by one of the leading thinkers of our time.
RON EYERMAN, YALE UNIVERSITY
Why should we avoid doing moral wrong? The inability of philosophy to answer this question in a compelling manner results, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure to appreciate the essentially interpersonal character of moral obligation. [An] innovative and engaging new bookIt is a mine of insight into an aspect of morality that has escaped sustained exploration.
PHILIP PETTIT, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
This thoughtful and elegant little book by one of the worlds most humble but distinguished intellectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a lifetime is being distilled here in a pithy but above all in a usable form.
PAUL GILROY, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series 2009; 2008 288 pp. Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03351-1 New in paperback
A rigorous and convincing volume of utmost importance to ongoing discussions of the foundations of rights and obligations in ethics and jurisprudence, as well as to the current debates on the foundations of practical rationality.
DANIEL M. LAYMAN, REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS 2009; 2006 362 pp. Cloth $55.50 / 41.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02274-4 Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03462-4 New in paperback
B EYOND M ORAL J UDGMENT

ALICE CRARY
W HAT I S G OOD AND W HY The Ethics of Well-Being

RICHARD KRAUT
Alice Crary challenges us to overcome our fixation on moral judgments and direct attention to responses that animate all our individual linguistic habits. The result is a powerful case for transforming our understanding of the difficulty of moral reflection and of the scope of our ethical concerns. The argument is grounded in Wittgenstein and Austin, but it is informed by perceptive readings of Cavell, Murdoch, and Diamond, and textured by readings of Henry James, Forster, Austen, and TolstoyViewing ethics as cramped by near-exclusive attention to the nature of moral judgments, Crary offers a widening viewThis book may well change the course of thought about its topic.
J. CHURCHILL, CHOICE
Have Rawls and Nozick met their match? The titans of late-twentiethcentury social philosophy do indeed find an acute criticand possible successorin Kraut. For in this groundbreaking inquiry into the nature of goodness, Kraut exposes the inadequacy of all previous ethical thinking, including Rawls and Nozicks. Kraut is particularly thorough in his demolition of the cognitive theory that requires each individual to construct his or her own definition of the good.
BRYCE CHRISTENSEN, BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
This [is an] important new examination of moral thinking.

DUNCAN RICHTER, METAPSYCHOLOGY 2009; 2007 252 pp. Cloth $42.00 / 31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02457-1 Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03461-7
The view [Kraut] develops, while having affinities with other recent work, is nevertheless substantially original and worked out in impressive detail.
GUY KAHANE, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 2009; 2007 304 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02441-0 Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03237-8
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U NDERSTANDING P RIVAC Y
DANIEL J. SOLOVE
D EATH AND C HARACTER Further Reflections on Hume

ANNETTE C. BAIER
As rapidly changing technology makes information increasingly available, scholars, activists, and policymakers have struggled to define privacy, with many conceding that the task is virtually impossible. Instead of reducing this subject to an academic parlor game, Solove uses interdisciplinary sources to offer a convincing argument about why everyone should care deeply about understanding the nature of privacy. Legal scholars will want to read this book, but so will psychologists, communication specialists, public policy makers, philosophers, and anyone interested in where to draw the line between public and private life.
D. S. DUNN, CHOICE
Provides readers with a rare opportunity to share the thoughts of someone who has been reading Hume and meditating on his thoughts and life for over 60 yearsBaier, a first-rate Hume scholar, effortlessly weaves together personal reflection, discussion of Hume the man, and scholarly argument, with the result that this book is engaging and highly readable.
J. H. SPENCE, CHOICE 2008 304 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03090-9
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Soloves bookand his approach to classifying and dealing with privacy problemswill have a profound impact on all future privacy debates. In that sense, it is a vital text; a must read for all who follow, or engage in, privacy debates.
ADAM THIERER, TECHNOLOGY LIBERATION FRONT 2009; 2008 1 line illus. 272 pp. Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03507-2 New in paperback
Award, North American Society for Social Philosophy
Rescuing Justice and Equality is an exceptionally rich and challenging work. Cohen develops his ideas with a remarkable degree of ingenuity, subtlety, and textual attentiveness. Furthermore, they are presented with extraordinary clarity.
MICHAEL ROSEN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 2008 448 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03076-3
E THICS Twelve Lectures on the Philosophy of Morality

DAVID WIGGINS
Almost every thoughtful person wonders at some time why morality says what it says and how it speaks to us. David Wiggins surveys the answers most commonly proposed for such questionsand does so in a way that the thinking reader can follow. There are few moral philosophers who will not learn something by studying this book and giving it the concentration it demands. Whether he is talking about Kant or John Stuart Mill, Rawls or John Mackie, Wiggins has subtle and interesting things to say.
SIMON BLACKBURN, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT
A book well-worth spending time with.

SIRINE SHEBAYA, METAPSYCHOLOGY 2009; 2006 408 pp. Paper $19.95 / OBEE ISBN 978-0-674-03498-3
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W HEN I S D ISCRIMINATION W RONG ?

DEBORAH HELLMAN
Deborah Hellman has taken on the important and difficult task of trying to establish logically consistent rules for determining just where in that fuzzy territory the line between legitimate and illegitimate discrimination should be drawn. Hellmans writing is clear and engaging, her examples relevant to the daily lives of manyRead Hellmans book as a very competent spur to thinking through for yourself the issues involved in appropriate and inappropriate discrimination.
WENDY JOHNSON, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 2008 216 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02797-8
M ORAL D IMENSIONS Permissibility, Meaning, Blame

T. M. SCANLON
The first half of the book, on permissibility and meaning, amounts to masterful and insightful philosophical housekeeping. The second half is revolutionary in the ways it tells us to think about blame.
ALLAN GIBBARD, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Belknap 2008 264 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03178-4
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MICHAEL THOMPSON
An exceptional piece of philosophy that is a reservoir of deep insights concerning life, action, and practicesThompsons theory of action is dazzlingdeep, original, revolutionary, and in certain respects (I suspect) just plain right.
PAUL HURLEY, NOTRE DAME PHILOSOPHICAL REVIEWS 2008 1 table 240 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01670-5
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ROBERT B. BRANDOM
L OOKING AWAY Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno

REI TERADA
Transcendentalism never came to an end in America. It just went underground for a stretch, but is back in full force in Robert Brandoms new book. An emphasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely to represent, has been growing in philosophy over the last thirty years, and Brandom has been at the center of this development. This is a paradigmatic work of contemporary philosophy. This work is a formidable achievement that demonstrates deep historical knowledge and awesome hermeneutic and systematic philosophical powers that, in this degree, are conjoined at best in a handful of people alive. This is in every way a superior work of philosophy, and shows why Robert Brandom holds a singular position in the discipline worldwide.
SEBASTIAN RDL, UNIVERSITT BASEL
Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternative to aesthetics that expresses our right to desire something other than experience as is, even those parts of it that really cannot be otherwise. We have Looked Awry with iek, and now we Look Away with Teradaand what do we see? Teradas scintillating study reveals all that is to be gainedintellectually, aesthetically, politicallyfrom tarrying with the apparent. This slender volume is the best of guides to what its author calls phenomenophilia, a strong inclination to cultivate ephemeral perceptual experience, and the perils and pleasures thereof, as these are anatomized in the writings of Kant, Coleridge, Nietzsche, and Adorno. This work of Teradas helps us imagine how to think more freely, and her accounts of these writers respective takes on experiences of the fleeting, the glimpsed, the evanescent are themselves queer in the most errant sense of the term.
MICHAEL MOON, EMORY UNIVERSITY
This book represents a new collection of papers by one of the most important systematic philosophical thinkers of our time. As such it will be welcomed by those already familiar with Brandoms thought. At the same time, by connecting his views to familiar historical themes, Brandom has provided what is, to my mind, the most accessible route into his often dauntingly complex ideas, a route strongly recommended to those new to his work.
MARK LANCE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY Belknap 2009 248 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03449-5
This original books contribution is of the best kind: not to provide a set of answers, but to open up a whole new area of questions.
SIMON JARVIS, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE 2009 1 halftone 240 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03268-2
Providence Lost Genevieve Lloyd

2008 384 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03153-1
Moral Literacy Barbara Herman

2008; 2007 352 pp. Cloth $47.50 / 35.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02467-0 Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03052-7
Naturalism in Question Edited by Mario De Caro and David Macarthur

Reasonably Vicious Candace Vogler

2009; 2002 304 pp. Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03072-5
Thinking How to Live Allan Gibbard

2008; 2003 6 tables 320 pp. Cloth $57.50 / 42.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01167-0 Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02730-5
PHILOSOPHY
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L ONELINESS
AS A
W AY
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L IFE
THOMAS DUMM
Thomas Dumm is a wise guide and learned counselor for the great Socratic question: How to live? We are deeply enriched owing to his wisdom and compassion.
CORNEL WEST
The greatest writers may have shown how language itself is inadequate to the experience of loneliness. But we have written our experience of loneliness deeply into the language. That too, though, goes to underscore the point that Mr. Dumms honest book makes: While the lonely self will always be with us, we can at least come together in search of imaginative ways of expressing that loneliness. We can write and read to tell each other how we are to be lonely together.
ANDREW STARK, WALL STREET JOURNAL 2010; 2008; 208 pp. Cloth $23.95 / 17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03113-5 Paper $16.95 / 12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04788-4 New in paperback
T HE S ELF AWAKENED Pragmatism Unbound

ROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER
This book reads like something from a bygone age. Unger has given readers a humanist manifesto, a text more at home in the 1930s than in the postmodern age. It is that rarest of things: an earnest bookUnger contests the claims of academic philosophy to naturalize all aspects of human existence in the name of science. Instead, he offers readers the hope that human beings will be able to transcend their limitations through imagination, and thereby become authentically futural beings.
C. R. MCCALL, CHOICE
The Self Awakened shows [Unger] to be one of the few living philosophers whose thinking has the range of the great philosophers of the pastIt is a polemic and a call to action, but what it challenges us to do most of all is to experiment with how we live and think. It is many years since I found myself as inspired and provoked by a book of non-fiction. Unger aims at nothing less than to invent a new kind of politics, which is evolutionary in style but revolutionary in outcomeThis is a philosophy as ambitious as any being written now.
LEE SMOLIN, TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT 2009; 2007 288 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03496-9
Y O !
AND
L O !
The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons

REBECCA KUKLA AND MARK LANCE
Yo! and Lo! is an innovative investigation into the philosophy of language. It moves the pragmatics of language center-stage in a way unlike anything I have seen before. The authors offer us a new way of approaching important questions about what language does and what we can do with it. This is a truly seminal work.
WILLEM DEVRIES, UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 2009 1 halftone, 8 line illus. 256 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03147-0
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H AVING THE W ORLD IN V IEW Essays on Kant, Hegel, and Sellars

JOHN MCDOWELL
T HE E NGAGED I NTELLECT Philosophical Essays

JOHN MCDOWELL
A crucial moment came in the developing split between Anglo-American and continental European philosophers when G. E. Moore and Bertrand Russell rebelled against the Hegelianism of their teachers and inaugurated the tradition of analytic philosophy. In this new book, John McDowell builds on his much discussed Mind and Worldone of the most highly regarded books in contemporary philosophy. McDowell, who has long commanded attention for his fresh approach to issues in contemporary epistemology, philosophy of language, and philosophy of mind, shocked some mainstream analytic philosophers in Mind and World by drawing inspiration not only from analytic philosophers but also from continental philosophers, most notably Hegel. McDowell argues that the roots of some problems plaguing contemporary philosophy can be found in issues that were first discerned by Kant, and that the best way to get a handle on them is to follow those issues as they are reshaped in the writings of Hegel and Sellars. Having the World in View will be a decisive further step toward healing the divisions in contemporary philosophy, by showing how central methods of the two traditions remain deeply entangled and by revealing how philosophers in both camps might still learn from each other.
2009 304 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03165-4
The Engaged Intellect collects important essays of John McDowell. Each involves a sustained engagement with the views of an important philosopher and is characterized by a modesty that is partly temperamental and partly methodological. It is typical of McDowell to represent his own best insights either as already to be found in the writings of his heroes (Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, and Sellars) or as inevitably emerging from a charitable modification of the views of those (such as Anscombe, Sellars, Davidson, Evans, Rorty, Dreyfus, and Brandom) subjected here to criticism. McDowell therefore develops his own philosophical picture in these pages through a method of indirection. The method is one of intervening in a philosophical dialectic at a characteristic juncturein which it is difficult to avoid the feeling that further progress is required. McDowell shows how progress is to be achieved by preserving what is most attractive in the views of those he is in conversation with, while whittling away their weaknesses. As he practices this method, what emerges through the volume is the unity of McDowells own views. The combination of philosophical breadth with dialectical depthof intricate argumentative detail with overall philosophical coherencemarks McDowell as one of the most compelling philosophers of our time.
2009 360 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03164-7
Mind in Life Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of Mind Evan Thompson
Honorable
Truth and Predication Donald Davidson

Edited by Kevin Sharpe Belknap 2008; 2005 192 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-67403040-4
Expression and the Inner David H. Finkelstein

2008; 2003 194 pp. Paper $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-67403044-2
SelfConsciousness Sebastian Rdl

2007 222 pp. Cloth $42.00 / 31.95 ISBN 978-0-67402494-6
In the Space of Reasons Selected Essays of Wilfrid Sellars Wilfrid Sellars

Edited by Kevin Scharp and Robert B. Brandom 2007 5 line illus. 528 pp. Cloth $47.50 / 35.95 ISBN 978-0-67402498-4
Mention, Canadian Philosophical Association Awards

Belknap 2007 8 color illus., 12 line illus., 2 tables 568 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-67402511-0
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Q UANTUM L EAPS
JEREMY BERNSTEIN
E VOLUTION The First Four Billion Years

EDITED BY MICHAEL RUSE AND JOSEPH TRAVIS
This is a lively, erudite book on a subject that Jeremy Bernstein has lived with for most of its history. His experience and deep understanding are apparent on every page. Bernstein, a former New Yorker staff writer and prolific popular-science author, embarks on an almost quixotic attempt to explain the mysteries of quantum mechanics. Its a daunting topic. The legendary nuclear physicist Niels Bohr once said, Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it. Bernstein seamlessly interweaves the story of his own growing fascination with quantum theory and the people who were influential in nurturing his career with the theoretical conundrums that abound in quantum theory. He also is very eclectic in the sources he draws on to explain some of the more remarkable aspects of quantum theory: the Dalai Lama, W. H. Auden and the plays of Tom Stoppard all provide relevant points of interest.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Belknap 2009 240 pp. Cloth $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03541-6
Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
Evolution opens with a series of major essays dealing with the history and philosophy of evolutionary biology, with major empirical and theoretical questions in the science, from speciation to adaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary development, and concluding with essays on the social and political significance of evolutionary biology today. If ever there were an education in a book, theres one in this massive volumeWhat is most probably the commemorative par excellence of the Origin of Species sesquicentennial.
RAY OLSON, BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)
Half essay collection, half encyclopedia, its packed with everything youll ever want or need to know about the science of evolution.
ZELDA ROLAND, WIRED Belknap 2009 145 figures 1008 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3
D EPTH An Account of Scientific Explanation

MICHAEL STREVENS
P ERSONS
AND
T HINGS
BARBARA JOHNSON
Persons and Things secures Barbara Johnsons place as the most important literary critic of our day. This exhilaratingly intelligent book is an American grammatology of pop culture, advertisements, and political rhetoric. Johnson provides lucid, even thrilling insights into the rhetorical framing of living subjects, legal persons, non-persons and things. Filled with the phantasmagoria of talking tombstones, babbling Barbies, puppets, pets, and golden calves, Persons and Things is a trove of cracklingly decoded insight.
PATRICIA WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OF ALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS 2008 272 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02638-4
Depth is an excellent bookthe best treatment of explanation in the philosophical literature. Michael Strevens draws on a wealth of scientific and philosophical knowledge to craft a theory that is true to the facts about how scientific explanation actually works, while avoiding the traps that have snared previous attempts at providing a systematic theory.
BRIAN WEATHERSON, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Strevens proposes a substantial revision and upgrading of traditional causal approaches to explanation in the sciences. Focusing on what he calls causal difference-making, the non-causal relation entanglement, and requiring progressive abstraction toward deeper explanatory models employing lower-level causal laws, Strevens outlines a theory of explanation that will no doubt attract a significant amount of interestespecially among those interested in the structure of the biological and social sciences (for which it has interesting consequences).
C. D. KAY, CHOICE 2009 16 line illus., 1 table 536 pp. Cloth $59.95 / 44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03183-8
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The Veil of Isis An Essay on the History of the Idea of Nature Pierre Hadot
Translated by Michael Chase Belknap 2008; 2006 18 halftones 432 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03049-7
Re-Engineering Philosophy for Limited Beings Piecewise Approximations to Reality William C. Wimsatt
2007 1 halftone, 22 line illus., 3 tables 472 pp. Cloth $52.50 / 38.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01545-6
B ENJAMIN S - ABILITIES
SAMUEL WEBER
An Artforum Best
Book of the Year
In contrast to the burgeoning secondary literature on Benjamin devoted to broad themes (his messianism, his Marxism, etc.), Samuel Weber, who has achieved academic prominence with scholarship on the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, deconstruction and media culture, opens up a fertile avenue of interpretation by paying close attention to a stylistic idiosyncrasy running through Benjamins oeuvre[Weber] deftly navigates this labyrinth of interpretations, exhibiting a keen sense of Benjamins singularly elusive style of thinking and writing.
ROSS BENJAMIN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
T HE W ORK OF A RT IN THE A GE I TS T ECHNOLOGIC AL R EPRODUCIBILITY, AND O THER W RITINGS ON M EDIA

WALTER BENJAMIN
OF
Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, and Thomas Y. Levin
Not only the best read of 2008 but, with a shelf full of works on Walter Benjamin, the best book on him Ive ever read.
ROSALIND KRAUSS, ARTFORUM 2010; 2008 376 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02837-1
Until recently, Walter Benjamins seminal essay, The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, was available to English-speaking readers only in the version that appeared in the 1968 collection Illuminations. Harvards new volume of the German cultural critics writings on media offers as its title-piece an earlier, edgier incarnationthe second of three composed between 1935 and 1939in a superior translationThis volume amply demonstrates the keenness and ingenuity of Benjamins intuitions at the dawn of modern media culture.
ROSS BENJAMIN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Belknap 2008 22 halftones 448 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02445-8
T HEODOR W. A DORNO One Last Genius

DETLEV CLAUSSEN
Translated by Rodney Livingstone Ungar German Translation Award, the American Translators Association
Claussen is illuminating on his subjects politics, cultural heritage, historical context, musicology, intellectual liaisons and reflections on the culture industry[This] is a strenuously intellectual biography, the only sort the master himself might just have approved, in which the bare facts of his life always come to us interwoven with historical currents and philosophical wrangles.
TERRY EAGLETON, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Belknap 2008 19 halftones 464 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02618-6
PHILOSOPHY
OF
SCIENCE
NEW AESTHETICS
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New in paperback
A RTSCIENCE Creativity in the Post-Google Generation

DAVID EDWARDS
W HIFF
DAVID EDWARDS
This book is an attempt to show how innovation in the postGoogle generation is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences. [Artscience] is less a technical tool than a motivational one: an exhortation for interdisciplinary intellectualsEdwards infects us with his subjects creativity. When the final chapter turns from vignettes to his utopian Laboratoire, were rooting for it to succeed.
ALICE W. FLAHERTY, NATURE
Illustrated by Junko Murata
There are scientists, and there are artists. Now, there are art scientistsDavid Edwards explains how this group of thinkers melds the two disciplines in innovative ways to make lasting and important breakthroughs for the betterment of humanity, culture, academia, and industry.
V. L. HENDRICKSON, NEW YORK SUN
In his concise book, Edwardsshares the stories of people who have found ways to cross this barrier [between art and science]artscientists, he calls themand elegantly communicates the catalytic effect of their interdisciplinary leaps.
DANIELLA MAESTRETTI, UTNE READER 2009; 2008 208 pp. Cloth $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02625-4 Paper $15.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03464-8
Whiff is the new novel by David Edwards (Sguier). It is illustrated by the Japanese Manga artist Junko Murata and continues the story of Edwards first novel, Niche, co-authored with Jay Cantor (Plessis). Whiff derives from an actual experiment performed in Paris at the art and science innovation center, Le Laboratoire. In this latest experiment, the double-Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx collaborated with the colloidal scientist Jrme Bibette to introduce a new way of encapsulating flavors. Wishing to present these delectable capsules in an unusual way, a group of art and science college students developed with Edwards a new way of eating by aerosol, called whiffing. Whiff, whose publication coincides with the commercialization by Le Laboratoire of aerosolized chocolate, explores how we dream, and realize our dreams, through surprising combinations of aesthetic and analytical methods. Whiff is also accompanied by the first whiffing recipes.
Idea Translation Lab Series 2009 100 line drawings 172 pp. Paper $27.95 / 20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03286-6
T HE S TRUGGLE
OSKARI KUUSELA
AGAINST
D OGMATISM
Wittgenstein and the Concept of Philosophy

Kuuselas book is an important and original contribution to the discussion of Wittgensteins conception of philosophy, and will be of interest to all scholars working on either the early or the later philosophy of Wittgenstein.
MARIE MCGINN, AUTHOR OF ELUCIDATING THE TRACTATUS
This work is a subtle, attractive depiction of the new Wittgenstein.

J. CHURCHILL, CHOICE 2008 372 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02771-8
Loves Confusions C. D. C. Reeve

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NEW AESTHETICS
C ONFESSIONS OF A C ONFIRMED E XTENSIONALIST AND O THER E SSAYS

W. V. QUINE
Edited by Dagfinn Follesdal and Douglas B. Quine
W. V. Quine created a new way of looking at the eternal questions of philosophy and their interconnections. His investigations into semantics and epistemology, ontology and causality, natural kinds, time, space, and individuation transformed the philosophical landscape for generations to come. In the twenty years between his last collection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work, producing a number of impressive essays in which he deepened, elaborated, and occasionally modified his position on central philosophical issues. The last of these essays, which gives this collection its name, appeared in 2002. This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quines prodigious career. It also includes some notable earlier essays that were not included in the previous collections although they contain illuminating discussions and are quite often referred to by other philosophers and also by Quine himself in his later writings. These essays, along with several manuscripts published here for the first time, offer a more complete and highly defined picture than ever before of one of the twentieth centurys greatest thinkers working at the height of his powers.
2008 2 halftones, 19 line illus., 1 table 544 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03084-8
Q UINE
IN
D IALOGUE
W. V. QUINE
Edited by Dagfinn Fllesdal and Douglas B. Quine
Fllesdal and D. Quine have edited a superb collection of W. V. Quines interviews, important articles, reviews, and comments on other philosophers such as Rudolf Carnap, Bertrand Russell, Donald Davidson, and P. F. Strawson. The unique theme of this handy volume is Quines manner of engaging peers, critics, and students. The editors have chosen the pieces that make new points or expand upon his other writings; some of these have been unearthed recently in the Quine archive and are previously unpublished. The chapters reveal Quines characteristic genius, wit, clarity of thought, and succinct prose.
L. B. MCHENRY, CHOICE 2008 1 line illus. 392 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03083-1
Quintessence Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine W. V. Quine

Edited by Roger F. Gibson, Jr. Belknap 2008; 2004 448 pp. Paper $22.95 / 16.95 SBN 978-0-674-02755-8
NEW AESTHETICS
FILM
STUDIES
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E ARTHLY PARADISE Myths and Philosophies

MILAD DOUEIHI
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
Milad Doueihi contemplates key moments in the philosophical reception and uses of Paradise, marked by the rise of critical and historical methods in the Early Modern period. Anyone who wants to understand the ethical turn in modern philosophy, or the intellectual roots of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, needs to read Doueihis account of the philosophical conditions under which our ideas of paradise developed and were at last overthrown. In this lucid study, beautifully translated by Jane Marie Todd, Milad Doueihi argues that while the earthly paradise belongs to myth, it is a myth around which our most vital thinking continually turns.
GORDON TESKEY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Milad Doueihis beautiful book does not seek to lift the mystery over earthly paradise. He shows, with select erudition, how this history prior to history informs the foundations of modernity. This modernity, while it is inaugurated with a contestation of the authority of the Bible, inherits and depends upon the same Biblical categories it seeks to undermine.
FABRICE HADJAJ, ART PRESS 2009 192 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03285-9
T HE P ECULIAR L IFE
STEPHEN MILLER
OF
S UNDAYS
[A] lively history of a day that has exercised a peculiar hold on countless human beings for the past 2,000 years.
JAY TOLSON, WALL STREET JOURNAL
Miller is a nimble and original cultural historian.

JEREMY LEWIS, LITERARY REVIEW
The Peculiar Life of Sundays is consistently informative and divertingas suitable for the melancholy Sunday mornings of the Velvet Underground as the lazy afternoons of the Small Faces.
TOBY LICHTIG, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT 2008 320 pp. Cloth $27.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03168-5
A S ECULAR A GE
CHARLES TAYLOR
Charles Taylor is Winner of the Templeton Prize Publishers Weekly Best Book Selection A Christianity Today Book Award, History/Biography A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year A Tablet Best Book of the Year Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year
Belknap 2007 896 pp. Cloth $42.00 / 31.95
ISBN
978-0-674-02676-6
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RELIGION
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B E A LWAYS C ONVERTING , B E A LWAYS C ONVERTED An American Poetics

ROB WILSON
Rob Wilsons reconceptualization of the American project of conversion begins with the story of Henry Opukahaia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity, torn from the stomach of his Native Pacific homeland and transplanted to New England. By mapping the poetics and politics of conversion and counterconversion, Wilson returns conversion to its central place in the American literature, history, and psyche. Through Opukahaias story, and through the works of the Tongan social scientist and fiction writer Epeli Hauofa, Wild West poet Ai, and the mercurial Bob Dylan, Wilson demonstrates that conversionseemingly an anachronistic concern in this secular ageis instead a global, yet deeply American subject, less about salvation or finality than about experimentation and the quest for modern beatitude. This book dives deep into the American cultural psyche of conversion and counter-conversion and delineates fascinating routes of turns and returns in the active making, recreating, and reimagining of self and world in the postcolonial U.S. Empire.
YUNTE HUANG, AUTHOR OF TRANSPACIFIC IMAGINATIONS
Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted is Rob Wilsons hymn to the Pacific[The] religious emphasis is fresh, often profound, and important, as steeped in Jimi Hendrix as it is in William James, and conveys a lived investment in spiritual becoming. The book is written generally in the ecstatic mode of many of its subjects, and will confirm Rob Wilsons reputation as the beat poet of American Studies.
ERIC LOTT, AUTHOR OF THE DISAPPEARING LIBERAL INTELLECTUAL 2009 1 halftone 336 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03343-6 New
ON
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Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction

BRIAN BOYD
Insightful, erudite, and thoroughly originalAside from illuminating the human love of fiction, [Brian Boyd] proves that consilience between the humanities and sciences can enrich both fields of knowledge.
STEVEN PINKER, AUTHOR OF THE STUFF OF THOUGHT
No one thinks on this scale anymore. Bent to the cultivation of shrinking plots of expertise, enlivened by the occasional boundary squabble, we are ill-accustomed to broad new theories even from Young Turks, let alone established critics. Ambition is in itself cause for celebrationBoyds treatment is engrossing, as elegant in the writing as the reasoning. It offers a new insight into the question of why some works [of fiction] speak to audiences across cultures and generations.
LAURA DIETZ, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Belknap 2009 14 halftones 560 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03357-3
Christianity and the Transformation of the Book Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea Anthony Grafton and Megan Williams
Belknap 2008; 2006 15 halftones 384 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03048-0
What Happened at Vatican II John W. OMalley

Belknap 2010; 2008 8 halftones, 1 line illus. 400 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04749-5
LITERARY
CRITICISM
C U LT U R A L
STUDIES
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Scholarship and Community in the Modern West

ANTHONY GRAFTON
Anthony Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through a series of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modern polymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writers. In our noisy, caffeinated world it has never been more challenging to be a scholar. Graftons engaging, erudite essays could be a rallying cry for the revival of the liberal arts. Anthony Grafton, Grand Master of libraries and reading, has written a book-lovers guide to the Republic of Letters. Worlds Made by Words: Scholarship and Communities in the Modern West traces the literate tradition from the codexes of humanist scholars to what he calls the dematerialized book of today. A superb achievement.
ALBERTO MANGUEL, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
The scope of Graftons volume is vast, and the topics it addresses are uniformly important. He takes his readers on a long journey, from the Republic of Letters to the Babel of the Internet. If it is hard to say whether or not the road leads upward to the light, there is no doubt that we could not ask for anyone wiser to lead us. Like Dantes Virgil, Grafton knows everyone we meet along the way.
G. W. BOWERSOCK, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Grafton may be steeped in the past, but he is no antiquarian. He is quick to link submerged traditions with present trends. He regards recent developments in technology, and their effects on libraries and on reading, as both a blessing and a burdenThe larger, more troubling question is: Who will read them in the future?Nevertheless, he himself represents the best proof that the Republic of Letters is alive and kicking.
ERIC ORMSBY, WALL STREET JOURNAL 2009 5 halftones 432 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03257-6
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T HE P ROGRAM E RA Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing

MARK MCGURL
Mark McGurl argues that far from occasioning a decline in the quality or interest of American writing, the rise of the creative writing program has instead generated a complex and evolving constellation of aesthetic problems that have been explored with energy and at times brilliance by authors ranging from Flannery OConnor to Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver, Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison. An engaging and stylishly written examination of an era we thought we knew, The Program Era will be at the center of debates about postwar literature and culture for years to come. Opinionated and livelyMcGurl delivers a cornucopia of exciting new ideas and insights in a work which will be indispensable reading for teachers and students of creative writing, and for anyone interested in modern fiction.
ILS N DHUIBHNE, IRISH TIMES
If were lucky, McGurls book will inaugurate for us a new genre of literary history that, though wholly intelligible to the general reader, doesnt pull its punches or water down the complexity of its vision.
LEE KONSTANTINOU, THE BELIEVER
McGurls book is not a history of creative-writing programs. Its a history of twentieth-century fiction, in which the work of American writers from Thomas Wolfe to Bharati Mukherjee is read as reflections of, and reflections on, the educational system through which so many writers now passAn impressive and imaginative book.
LOUIS MENAND, NEW YORKER 2009 9 halftones, 13 line illus. 480 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03319-1
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Performing Gestures/Producing Culture

CARRIE NOLAND
Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained. This highly original book brilliantly rethinks one of the crucial blind spots of poststructuralist theorythe evasiveness about, or failure to resolve, issues of agency. Agency and Embodiment is an extremely important and intelligently articulated intervention into the profound dilemmas we face in understanding how to navigate the complexities of contemporary cultural landscapes.
AMELIA JONES, UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER New
L AW
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L ITERATURE
Third Edition
RICHARD A. POSNER
The book remains the clearest, most acute account of the intersection of law and literature. This complex, superbly argued book remains a remarkable achievement and is made even more useful in this new edition. Richard Posner knows how much legal thinking can profit from the study of literary traditions and classic works of fiction. He also is acutely aware of the limits on the application of literary practice to the law. The bracing manner in which he debunks the sentimental notion that literature andworseliterary theory are laws salvation is a pleasure to read.
DENIS DUTTON, EDITOR, PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
Noland challenges Michel Foucaults metaphor of bodily inscription by proposing gesture as scripturalhaving the characteristics of writing. Agency and Embodiment constitutes a highly original contribution to thinking on the body, power, and culture across fields in the arts, humanities, and social sciences, from a decidedly interdisciplinary perspective.
MARK FRANKO, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ 2009 9 halftones, 15 line illus. 272 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03451-8
With his usual astonishing range of interests, Posner treats facets of law and literature ranging from popular culture to copyright to whether reading great literature necessarily contributes to ones moral growth (and more besides). Every reader will be provoked, challenged, and illuminated by Posners insights and arguments.
SANFORD V. LEVINSON, AUTHOR OF OUR UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION 2009 1 table 592 pp. Paper $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03246-0
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MAURICE OLENDER
Translated by Jane Marie Todd
Beginning with a brilliant study of the Protocols of Zion, this book turns to Indo-European origins of language, culture, and human types and moves on to studying some of the more important figures in the twentieth century, such as Eliade, Dumzil, and Momigliano. Maurice Olender elegantly teases out the cultural history of the word race, a history that explains its diverse political uses and its continuing relevance to our global contemporary society. In doing so, he provides an accessible and lucid pathway through the labyrinth of race and erudition and examines how to deal with diversity without the problematic heritage of racial stereotypes. A brilliant, riveting workIt is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand the fabric, or rather the fabrication, at the highest (and lowest) levels, of the social fictions and myths of otherness, by which we live and die, by which we continue to suffer and inflict often atrocious suffering.
PETER SACKS, AUTHOR OF O WHEEL 2009 240 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03404-4
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T HE S IXTIES U NPLUGGED A Kaleidoscopic History of a Disorderly Decade

GERARD J. DEGROOT
F EELING B ACKWARD Loss and the Politics of Queer History

HEATHER LOVE
This book revisits the Sixties we forgot or somehow failed to witness. In a kaleidoscopic global tour of the decade, Gerard DeGroot reminds us that the Ballad of the Green Beret outsold Give Peace a Chance, that the Students for a Democratic Society were outnumbered by Young Americans for Freedom, that revolution was always a pipe dream, and that the Sixties belong to Reagan and de Gaulle more than to Kennedy and Dubcek. In his meaty, rich text, DeGroot argues that the real spirit of the 60s has been lost in a deluge of nostalgia. The free decade, the freak show, was one in which Chinas Cultural Revolution proved to be one of the worst atrocities of the 20th century. The sixties, he argues, were shaped more by the election of Reagan as the governor of California than by Kennedy. Weve chosen to forget about Sharpeville, the Gaza Strip and Jakarta. The so-called revolution of the sixties, as we know it, didnt really exist. History, he argues, is not necessarily an accurate representation of what happenedbut the way we view that it happened. His book, disguised as a coffee table light read, is sure to spark controversy. It is, in effect, a history book. Only in it, DeGroot says what few history books have the guts to.
CAITLIN OTOOLE, PARADE 2009; 2008 528 pp. Cloth $29.95 / COBEE ISBN 978-0-674-02786-2 Paper $18.95 / COBEE ISBN 978-0-674-03463-1
A brilliant workLove looks fearlessly at literature from the past in which circumstances related to gender tend to produce victims rather than heroines. She establishes that our literature has been affected by homophobia and demands that we consider the implications of this fact. Love contends that we need to look at history and social politics less like Lots wife, whos destroyed by looking back, and more like Odysseus, who listens to the past but isnt destroyed by it. The past haunts us whether we acknowledge it or not.
MARTHA MILLER, GAY AND LESBIAN REVIEW WORLDWIDE 2009; 2007 206 pp. Cloth $42.00 / 31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02652-0 Paper $16.95 / 12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03239-2 New in paperback
D ELIRIOUS M ILTON The Fate of the Poet in Modernity

GORDON TESKEY
An important and elegant book, for which all sensible Miltonists and lovers of poetry should be grateful.
NEIL FORSYTH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
An interesting reaffirmation in todays often contrary academic climate of a poetic approach to Milton, swiping at those who would specialize Milton studies into obscurity. He is refreshingly suspicious of narrowly historicist or theological readings and even calls Miltons poetry shamanistic, which will have certain Miltonists choking on their historicist porridge.
WILLIAM POOLE, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS 2009; 2006 224 pp. Cloth $40.50 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01069-7 Paper $14.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03509-6
I S M ILTON B ETTER S HAKESPEARE ?

NIGEL SMITH
THAN
This engagingly informal but thoroughly informed volume answers the titles question in the affirmative: Milton is better for Americans today in that he stands for political libertyThis book deserves the attention of a broad audience.
E. D. HILL, CHOICE
Smith is moved by the allegorical quest in Areopagitica for the lost body of Truth, by Miltons exalted notions of the purpose of true poetry, and by the identification of the heroic poet as national redeemer.
FRANK KERMODE, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS 2008 240 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-02832-6
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DUDLEY ANDREW AND STEVEN UNGAR
The subject of this book is the frenzied cross-pollination of politics and culture in France during the tumultuous 1930s. This magnificent study has as its point of departure cinematographic culture and techniques. Andrew and Ungar deliver brilliant close readings of numerous filmsboth classics and cheap commercial enterprises to illuminate the spheres of political imaginationThe authors many years of labor on this book were well spent. No one committed to cultural history can ignore this book and its powerful and persuasive methodology. This is interdisciplinary work at its very best.
N. R. FITCH, CHOICE Belknap 2008; 2005 105 halftones 464 pp. Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02716-9
E THNIC M ODERNISM
WERNER SOLLORS
Restless and powerful, Ethnic Modernism does more than reconnect modernism with ethnicity; it recasts modernism entirely. This is vintage Sollors: Out-of-the-box, profound, and brimming with brio.
GISH JEN
Evidently Werner Sollors has read everything that was written in the US in the first half of the 20th century. As he did so he paid special attention to issues of ethnicity, class, and race in and around modernist texts canonical and forgotten. The result is an important new literary history of the period, informed by vast erudition and tactful interpretation, ranging gracefully across the visual arts, music, and film, and presented in so lively and engrossing a form that it is hard to put down.
MICHAEL LEJA, AUTHOR OF LOOKING ASKANCE 2008 336 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03091-6
W ELLSPRINGS
Sexual Fluidity Understanding Womens Love and Desire Lisa M. Diamond
Finalist, Independent Publisher Book
MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
Awards, Gay/Lesbian Category

2009; 2008 352 pp. Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03226-2
The Economy of Prestige Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value James F. English
A New York Magazine Best
In seven incisive essays, novelist and Peruvian political aspirant Vargas Llosa reflects on literature and history, the crucial role of fiction in human society and the link between totalitarianism and nationalism. Lucidly and elegantly, he explores the sources of inspiration for his literary oeuvre, analyzing the significance for Latin American writers of Borges, whose works served to dispel a kind of inferiority complexthat kept us imprisoned in a provincial outlook.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Academic Book
2008; 2005 17 halftones 432 pp. Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03043-5
[Vargas Llosa] frequentlyand tellinglyreminds us that fiction must have the power to enchant us.
ADAM FEINSTEIN, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature 2008 208 pp. Cloth $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02836-4
Born in Flames Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses Howard Hampton
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H ER B RILLIANT C AREER The Life of Stella Miles Franklin

JILL ROE
Queensland Premiers Literary Award
Born in the Australian bush, Stella Miles Franklin became an international publishing sensation in 1901, at the age of 21, with My Brilliant Career, whose portrayal of an ambitious and independent woman defying social expectations still captivates readers. In a magisterial biography, Jill Roe details Miles extraordinary life.
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T HE Q UOTABLE A BIGAIL A DAMS

ABIGAIL ADAMS
Edited by John P. Kaminski
John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that her letters give me more entertainment than all the speeches I hear. There is more good Thoughts, fine strokes and Mother Wit in them than I hear in the whole Week. An Ounce of Mother Wit is worth a Pound of Clergy. The Quotable Abigail Adams invites you to enjoy Abigails wit and wisdom on a wide range of subjects, drawn from writings throughout her lifetime.
The Service of this Government is not a Bed of Roses, in any department of it. A Nation which does not respect itself, cannot expect to receive it from others. Gentlemen are not half as particular as the Ladies are in their details. No woman of sense will ever make her Husband an object of Ridicule; for in proportion as she lowers him she lessens herself. A woman may forgive the man she loves an indiscretion, but never a neglect. There is no musick sweeter in the Ears of parents, than the well earned praises of their children. Better is a little contentment than great Treasure; and trouble therewith. Time, which improves youth, every year furrows the brow of age.
Belknap 2009 448 pp. Cloth $26.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03532-4
Early success launched Miles into influential literary and socialist circles in Sydney and Melbourne, where she met Banjo Paterson (composer of Waltzing Matilda and author of The Man from Snowy River) and suffragist Vida Goldstein (who introduced her to Christian Science). Researching the lives of working women, Miles disguised herself as a domestic for a year. She then lit out for adventure abroad, landing in San Francisco just after the Great Earthquake. At Jane Addams Hull House in Chicago, she joined the womens labor movement, working for the National Womens Trade Union League and writing for its magazine. Returning to Australia in the 1930s, she supported womens causes and promoted Australian writers, leaving her estate to endow the nations premier literary award.
Belknap 2009 72 halftones, 1 map 752 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 OANZ ISBN 978-0-674-03609-3 New
V OICE
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V ISION
A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction

STEPHEN J. PYNE
Voice and Vision is for those who wish to understand the ways in which literary considerations can enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing is scholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it is good. Voice and Vision is as much a tour de force of critical reading as it is an incomparable guide to the writing of history, a brilliant elaboration of the subtle dialect between art and craft in nonfiction prose.
MIKE DAVIS, AUTHOR OF PLANET OF SLUMS
Pyne offers a powerful and persuasive case for works that combine the techniques of great literatureincluding a novelists eye for narrative, language, character development, and scene settingwith a historians passion for factual accuracy and respect for the rules of evidence. This is a remarkable book.
STEVEN MINTZ, AUTHOR OF HUCKS RAFT
This engaging discussion of historical narrative is part meditation and part manual. It distills the experience, gained from wide and generous reading as well as prolific writing, of a master of the genre.
HARRIET RITVO, AUTHOR OF THE PLATYPUS AND THE MERMAID 2009 3 line illus. 336 pp. Cloth $25.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03330-6
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S AMUEL J OHNSON Selected Writings

EDITED BY PETER MARTIN
B IOGRAPHY A Brief History

NIGEL HAMILTON
A rich and provocative meditation on the history of biography.

SCOTT STOSSEL, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
At the center of this collection are the periodical essays from the Rambler, Adventurer, and Idler. Also included are Johnsons great moral fable, Rasselas; the Prefaces to the Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; and selections from Lives of the Poets. Readers should find much pleasure and insight in this collection.
ANTHONY PUCCI, LIBRARY JOURNAL
Entertaining historyThere is much to glean from this brisk examination of our love affair with individuality.
CRAIG TAYLOR, FINANCIAL TIMES
Hamiltonhas distilled enormous wisdom into his remarkable little book.

JOHN M. AND PRISCILLA S. TAYLOR, WASHINGTON TIMES 2009; 2007 20 halftones 360 pp. Cloth $21.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02466-3 Paper $15.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03471-6
We see in [Johnsons] essays the tiny brushwork of brilliant self-portraiture; we hear the rhythm of moral seriousness, the sound of contemplation as it engages with the questions of how to live and how to manage in the face of death. But most of all we feel the reach of an authora writer attempting to reach past self-doubt, poverty, cant, and orthodoxy, in order to assert the power of individual authorship and free thinking in the face of more nebulous authorities. Samuel Johnsonbrought both dignity and self-sufficiency to the writing game.
ANDREW OHAGAN, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS Belknap 2009 536 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03585-0
H OW
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A Primer
NIGEL HAMILTON
Hamiltons passion, lyricism and collection of telling anecdotes make this short book of advice an unexpected page-turner; its hard not to get caught up in the authors romantic vision of biography, a form he believes has nearly as many permutations as music. Elucidating not just the dos and donts of biography, but also the whys and hows, Hamilton has created a motivating, empowering guide for writers.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW) 2008 400 pp. Cloth $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02796-1
S AMUEL J OHNSON A Biography

PETER MARTIN
H ADRIAN Empire and Conflict

THORSTEN OPPER
Kansas City Star Top 10 Notable Book
of the Year Atlantic Magazine Best Book of the Year, Runner-up
A deeply felt, beautifully written account of a personality about whom we cannot know enough.
GEORGE SIM JOHNSTON, WALL STREET JOURNAL
[Assembles] artifacts from around the world, including stunning sculptures, bronzes, coins, mosaics, and fine interpretive texts about the man who was emperor of Rome from 117 CE to 138 CE.Beautifully illustrated.
JOAN W. GARTLAND, LIBRARY JOURNAL 2008 200 color illus. 224 pp. Cloth $29.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03095-4
[An] outstanding new biography.

CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, THE ATLANTIC
For a man who bragged and twitched and stank, Johnson had a lot of friends, and Martin superintends them like a film director: poet Charlotte Lennox, painter Joshua Reynolds, novelist Fanny Burney and, of course, future laird and biographer James Boswell.
MICHAEL SIMS, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD Belknap 2008 34 halftones, 2 maps 640 pp. Cloth $35.00 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03160-9
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O RLANDO F URIOSO A New Verse Translation

LUDOVICO ARIOSTO
Translated by David R. Slavitt Introduction by Charles S. Ross
The appearance of David R. Slavitts translation of Orlando Furioso (Mad Orlando), one of the great literary achievements of the Italian Renaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new verse translation, Slavitt introduces readers to Ariostos now neglected masterpiecea poem whose impact on Western literature can scarcely be exaggerated. It was a major influence on Spensers Faerie Queene. William Shakespeare borrowed one of its plots. Voltaire called it the equal of the Iliad, the Odyssey, and Don Quixote combined. More recently, Italo Calvino drew inspiration from it. Borges was a fan. Now, through translations of generous selections from this longest of all major European poems, Slavitt brings the poem to life in ways previous translators have not. This is an immensely skillful, useful, and entertaining translation, provocative of out loud laughter sometimes, as well as the thrill of melodrama. It makes available to English readers a work previously languishing in the category of the unclimbable mountain. The result is immediate and enriching.
HENRY TAYLOR Belknap 2009 688 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03535-5 New
T HE C OLLECTED W ORKS OF R ALPH W ALDO E MERSON Volume VIII, Letters and Social Aims
HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION BY RONALD A. BOSCO
Notes and Parallel Passages by Glen M. Johnson Textual Apparatus by Joel Myerson
Letters and Social Aims, published in 1875, contains essays originally published early in the 1840s as well as those that were the product of a collaborative effort among Emerson, his daughter Ellen Tucker Emerson, his son Edward Waldo Emerson, and his literary executor James Eliot Cabot. The volume takes up the topics of Poetry and Imagination, Social Aims, Eloquence, Resources, The Comic, Quotation and Originality, Progress of Culture, Persian Poetry, Inspiration, Greatness, and, appropriately for Emersons last published book, Immortality. The historical introduction demonstrates for the first time the decline in Emersons creative powers after 1865; the strain caused by the preparation of a poetry anthology and delivery of lectures at Harvard during this time; the devastating effect of a house fire in 1872; and how the Emerson children and Cabot worked together to enable Emerson to complete the book. The textual introduction traces this collaborative process in detail and also provides new information about the genesis of the volume as a response to a proposed unauthorized British edition of Emersons works.
The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson Volume VII, Society and Solitude
Historical Introduction, Notes, and Parallel Passages by Ronald A. Bosco Text Established and Textual Introduction by Douglas Emory Wilson Belknap / Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 2008 542 pp. Cloth $89.50 / 66.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02627-8
Belknap / Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson 2010 670 pp. Cloth $95.00 / 70.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03560-7
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O DES
FRANCESCO FILELFO
Edited and translated by Diana Robin
W ILLIAM B LAKE ON S ELF AND S OUL

LAURA QUINNEY
Francesco Filelfo (13981481), one of the great scholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was the principal humanist working in Lombardy in the middle of the Quattrocento and served as court poet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. His long life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy, and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leaving him very often on the run from rival factions and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poet of the Renaissance to explore the expressive potential of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the traditions of Augustan literature to address personal and political concerns in his own day. The Odes, completed in the mid-1450s, constitute the first complete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquity and are a major literary achievement.
The I Tatti Renaissance Library 2009 480 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03563-8 New
Blakes central topic, Laura Quinney shows us, is the discomfiture of being a self or subject. The greater the insecurity of the I, Blake believed, the more it tries to swell into a false but mighty Selfhood. And the larger the Selfhood bulks, the lonelier it grows. But why is that so? How is the illusion of Selfhood created? What damage does it do? How can one break its hold? These questions lead Blake to some of his most original thinking. Quinney powerfully rereads both Blakes early work and his later visionary poems as an unfolding record of the embattled psyche. This extremely important contribution to our understanding of Blake should appeal not just to Blakeans but to all who think about the psychology of transcendence.
PAUL FRY, YALE UNIVERSITY
L ATIN P OETRY
JACOPO SANNAZARO
Translated by Michael C. J. Putnam
Jacopo Sannazaro (14561530), considered by some authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of the Italian Renaissance, spent most of his career in Naples, where he was a member and ultimately the head of the Academia Pontaniana. He is most famous for having written, in Italian, the first pastoral romance in European literature, the Arcadia HAROLD BLOOM (1504). But after this early work, Sannazaro devoted himself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on his 2010 216 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03524-9 beloved Vergil. In addition to his epic The Virgin Birth (1526), which earned him the title of the Christian Vergil, he also composed Piscatory Eclogues, an innovative adaption of the eclogue form, as well as elegies, epigrams, and a New number of T HE S ONGS AND S ONETS OF shorter works. This volume J OHN D ONNE contains the Second Edition first complete JOHN DONNE English translation of all of Edited by Theodore Redpath Sannazaros There is perhaps no superior edition of Donnes Songs and poetry in Sonets than Theodore Redpaths wonderful annotated volLatin, accomume. Out of print for a decade, the book is reprinted here in panied by exa revised edition. tensive notes.
The I Tatti Renaissance Library 2009 592 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-67403406-8
Much of William Blakes most extraordinary work depends on his concept of Selfhood. Laura Quinney has gone beyond all previous attempts to deal with Blakes treatment of what it means to be a solitary consciousness. Quinney illuminates Blakes very original relationship to the Gnostic heresy and his astonishing vision of what might redeem our humanity without falling into received doctrines.
Redpaths edition of Donnes Songs and Sonets is the most useful and reliable in existence. I commend it strongly.
HAROLD BLOOM
Redpaths edition of Donnes Songs and Sonets provides a superb introduction to these poems which have for so long remained central to English verse. Drawing on established knowledge and shrewd, original critical insights, this volume speaks illuminatingly to students of literature and to readers and writers of poetry generally.
JOHN HOLLANDER 2009 400 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03247-7
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T HE C OLLECTED P ROSE OF R OBERT F ROST

ROBERT FROST
T HE N OTEBOOKS
ROBERT FROST
OF
R OBERT F ROST
Edited by Robert Faggen
Edited by Mark Richardson
The fullest critical edition of Frosts prose ever published, including everything Frost is known to have prepared for print, major and minor items alike.Examples of his wit and insight abound.
RON CHARLES, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD
Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, well loved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In his day, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penning thousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observations, and meditations. These notebooks, transcribed and presented here in their entirety for the first time, offer unprecedented insight into Frosts complex and often highly contradictory thinking about poetics, politics, education, psychology, science, and religion. Eight hundred pages of wisdom and prophecy, raving and rant, expertly edited and annotated by Robert Faggen.
CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, NEW REPUBLIC
There is page after page in the Collected Prose of this slightly grand and teasing and ironic sort of talkReading the prose, finding him saying one thing in terms of another, the pleasure of ulteriority is ours also. In the Collected Prose we find, to borrow a phrase from his poem ;Two Tramps in Mud Time, The lurking frost in the earth beneath.
IAN SANSOM, THE GUARDIAN Belknap 2009; 2008 416 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02463-2 Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03467-9 New in paperback
Since Frost used his notebooks to think through his poems, his essays and his teaching, they reveal only his working mindand thats revelation aplenty.
DAVID GATES, NEWSWEEK
Offers unprecedented insight into the workings of a superlative poetic intelligence, and reveals, beneath the calm, assured surface of Frosts verse, a searching mind troubled and dazzled by the chaos of modern life.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS Belknap 2009; 2007 5 halftones 848 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02311-6 Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03466-2 New in paperback
S ONGS D IVAGATIONS
STPHANE MALLARM
OF
O URSELVES
The Uses of Poetry in America

JOAN SHELLEY RUBIN
Translated by Barbara Johnson
This is a book just the way I dont like them, the father of French Symbolism, Stphane Mallarm, informs the reader in his preface to Divagations: scattered and with no architecture. On the heels of this caveat, Mallarms diverting, discursive, and gorgeously disordered 1897 masterpiece tumbles forthand proves itself to be just the sort of book his readers like most. An unequivocal tour de force. Mallarms French echoes through and the English sounds authentic and coherent. But the fact that this translation is Johnsons reading of Mallarm is its chief value.
M. GADDIS ROSE, CHOICE
This humane, at times exhaustingly detailed literary history dignifies, against the critics aesthetic judgments, the comfort, pleasure and emotional richness readers found in popular poetry. And as a social historian, Rubinsucceeds in showing how this poetry was adopted by educators, churches, immigrant groups and other organizations to promote various social and cultural goals.
TOM SLEIGH, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
When subjected to the tensions of a powerful nation in a tumultuous era, the timeless appeals of poetry will naturally take distinctive and surprising forms. Ms. Rubin has chosen to survey some of these surprises over 70 years of explosive American history from the lingering aftermath of the Civil War through the ravages of two world wars to the technological wizardry of the 20th century.
BRAD LEITHAUSER, WALL STREET JOURNAL Belknap 2009; 2007 25 halftones 488 pp. Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03512-6
[A] lustrous new English translationI dont know whether Ive expressed excitedly or lucidly enough my sense of this translations importance.
WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, BOOKFORUM Belknap 2009; 2007 312 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02438-0 Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03240-8
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The Canon The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems Constantine Cavafy
Translated by Stratis Haviaras Foreword by Seamus Heaney Hellenic Studies 2007 465 pp. Paper $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02586-8
Emily Dickinsons Herbarium A Facsimile Edition Emily Dickinson

Introduction by Richard B. Sewall Foreword by Leslie A. Morris Preface by Judith Farr Appendix by Ray Angelo Belknap 2006 68 color illus. 208 pp. Cloth $138.50 / 102.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02302-4
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Reading Edition Emily Dickinson

Edited by R. W. Franklin
R. W. Franklin
Received the Emily Dickinson International Society Award Umhoefer Prize

Belknap 2005; 1999 696 pp. Cloth $36.50 / 27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-67624-4 Paper $19.50 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01824-2
The Gardens of Emily Dickinson Judith Farr with a chapter by Louise Carter Rose Mary Crawshay Prize of the British Academy
2005; 2004 24 color illus., 12 tritone illus. 368 pp. Cloth $26.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01293-6 Paper $22.50 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01829-7
Coming of Age as a Poet Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath Helen Vendler

2004; 2003 4 halftones 202 pp. Cloth $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01024-6 Paper $20.00 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01383-4
Our Secret Discipline Yeats and Lyric Form Helen Vendler

Belknap 2007 448 pp. Cloth $35.00 / COBEE ISBN 978-0-674-02695-7
Poets Thinking Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats Helen Vendler

The Art of Shakespeares Sonnets Helen Vendler A National Book Critics Circle Nominee, General Nonfiction
Belknap 1999; 1997 696 pp. Mixed $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-63711-5 Paper $24.50 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-63712-2
One Writers Beginnings Eudora Welty New York Times Bestseller and an American Book Award Nominee for Nonfiction
The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization 2004; 1998 17 halftones 128 pp. Paper $15.00 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-63927-0 CD-audio $28.50 / 21.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01579-1
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L ICENTIOUS G OTHAM Erotic Publishing and Its Prosecution in Nineteenth-Century New York
DONNA DENNIS
T HE C ULTURAL L OGIC C OMPUTATION

DAVID GOLUMBIA
OF
Donna Dennis offers a colorful, groundbreaking account of the birth of an indecent print trade and the origins of obscenity regulation in the United States. Much of Licentious Gotham is undeniably entertainingDonna Dennis has certainly written an important work of American cultural and legal history.
MICHAEL DIRDA, WASHINGTON POST
Driven by a programmers knowledge of computers as well as by a deep engagement with contemporary literary and cultural studies and poststructuralist theory, The Cultural Logic of Computation provides a needed corrective to the uncritical enthusiasm for computers common today in many parts of our culture. The Cultural Logic of Computation is a brilliant, audacious book. It might be described as a rollicking, East Coast version of Alan Lius The Laws of Coolor one part Laws of Cool, one part Seeing Like a State, with more than a dash of Baudrillard and Virilio for brio. Golumbias argument is that contemporary Western and Westernizing culture is deeply structured by forms of hierarchy and control that have their origins in the development and use of computers over the last 50 years. I look forward to pressing this book on friends and colleagues, starting with anyone who has ever recommended The World is Flat to me.
LISA GITELMAN, AUTHOR OF ALWAYS ALREADY NEW
Dennis traces the ways in which provocative material was passed off as edifying, like the guides to the citys prostitutes that purported to steer unknowing rubes away from their clutches. And she also notes that prohibitions of one sort of racy material only led to another innovation, often more popular than the first.
SUSAN DOMINUS, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW
From simple erotic fan fiction to the blockbuster sensory assaults common to the Internet, erotic publishing online has been fought every step of the way but persevered in manner not too different than Dennis history of erotic print. Perhaps, this will be the true legacy of the book: by illustrating a previously unknown struggle in the past, cultural critics will stop crying falling-sky whenever a new erotic meme crops up on the Internet.
ERIK HINTON, POPMATTERS.COM 2009 24 halftones 408 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03283-5
The Cultural Logic of Computation is a fascinating and wise book. It takes us with great care through the history of the computational imagination and logic, from Hobbes and Leibniz to blogging and corporate practice. Its range includes the philosophy of computation, the ideology of the digital revolution, the important areas of childrens education and education in general and glimpses of brilliant literary insight. Required reading for the responsible citizen.
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
Golumbia is no Luddite; he readily admits that computers have brought a wide range of benefits to society. His chief purpose, though, is to demonstrate that these benefits come at the cost of accepting the technophilic ideology, and changing how we perceive our own essence as human beings.
ROB HORNING, POPMATTERS.COM 2009 272 pp. Cloth $30.00 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03292-7
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T HE G OLDEN A GE
CARL J. RICHARD
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Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United States

In a masterful study, Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics became enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers. In a lucid and readable book, Carl Richard clearly demonstrates the ongoing importance of classicism in the decades before the Civil War in the United States. Focusing on well-established figures in the American political and literary canon, he shows how the ideals of the classical world continued to provide Americans with one of their principal sets of ideological tools well into the nineteenth century.
CAROLINE WINTERER, STANFORD UNIVERSITY
An engaging, accessible, and learned study of the central role the classics played in U.S. intellectual history up to 1865.
R. I. FRANK, CHOICE 2009 272 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03264-4 New in paperback
C OMEUPPANCE Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction
WILLIAM FLESCH
With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh. What Flesch undertakes with skill and cunning is what might be called the conversion of sociobiology into its aesthetic analogs. By means of this transposition, we are given a surprisingly fresh account of the workings of high literature.
HAROLD BLOOM
At once authoritative and flexible, intellectually adventurous and careful. It is hard to imagine a reader who would not learn from its arresting arguments or take pleasure in the freshness of its juxtapositions. This is a book of immense originality and energy. Flesch opens upfor literary critics of every persuasionnew ways of thinking about the books they love.
NICK HALPERN, AUTHOR OF EVERYDAY AND PROPHETIC 2009; 2008 264 pp. Cloth $42.00 / 31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02631-5 Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03228-6
A FFECTIVE M APPING Melancholia and the Politics of Modernism

JONATHAN FLATLEY
Affective Mapping is one of those rare books that makes difficult theoretical propositions and counterintuitive ideas comprehensible without robbing them of any of their complexity and subtlety.
DOUGLAS CRIMP, AUTHOR OF MELANCHOLIA AND MORALISM
Affective Mapping is not only keen, original, lucid, and persuasive: it is profoundly antidepressant.
EVE KOSOFSKY SEDGWICK 2008 1 halftone 272 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03078-7
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paperback
E COLOGY
WITHOUT
Black Culture and the Police Power after Slavery

BRYAN WAGNER
N ATURE Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics

TIMOTHY MORTON
W. C. Handy waking up to the blues on a train platform, Buddy Bolden eavesdropping on the drums at Congo Square, John Lomax taking his phonograph recorder into a southern penitentiarysome foundational myths of the black vernacular remain inescapable, even as they come under increasing pressure from skeptics. In Disturbing the Peace, Bryan Wagner revises the history of the black vernacular tradition and gives a new account of black culture by reading these myths in the context of the traditions ongoing engagement with the law. This is a great book. I am enriched and fundamentally challenged by its erudition, its attention to detail and the force of its extremely powerful arguments. It is my sense that anyone working in black studies has to contend with this work [and] anyone who contends with this work will find their own work richer for having done so.
FRED MOTEN, DUKE UNIVERSITY
Timothy Morton argues that the chief stumbling block to environmental thinking is the image of nature that most writers on the topic promote: they propose a new worldview, but their very zeal to preserve the natural world leads them away from the nature they revere. Original and important critiques of ecocritical theoryIts occasionally irreverent style and embrace of kitsch make it an enjoyable read.
JANET FISKIO, ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY
Drawing on writers from Adorno to Zizek, and considering literature and art from the 18th century to the present, Morton offers a complex, important, and often playful argument that lays the groundwork for new directions in ecocriticism.
G. D. MACDONALD, CHOICE 2009; 2007 262 pp. Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03485-3
Audacious and path-breakingIf the police power criminalized blacks in the New South, the invention of the vernacular tradition sugared over this onslaught of violence. Wagner exposes the fantasy of folklore. After Disturbing the Peace, it will be impossible to hear Leadbelly or read Uncle Remus without knowing what it means to market emphatic inequality as universal culture.
COLIN DAYAN, AUTHOR OF THE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL 2009 12 halftones 320 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03508-9
Stealing Lincolns Body Thomas J. Craughwell Amazon.com, A Top 100 Book of the Year
Belknap 2009; 2007 26 halftones 288 pp. Cloth $24.95 / 18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02458-8 Paper $14.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03039-8
My Dearest Friend Letters of Abigail and John Adams Edited by Margaret A. Hogan and C. James Taylor
Belknap 2007 19 color illus., 9 halftones 528 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02606-3
Popular Bohemia Modernism and Urban Culture in NineteenthCentury Paris Mary Gluck
2008; 2005 41 engravings 238 pp. Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02731-2
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New
G OLD
SUSAN LA NIECE
In tracing the history of gold through the ages, this beautiful book showcases the multifarious uses to which the precious metal has been put. Drawing on her own long experience investigating the art and science of metallurgy, Susan La Niece guides readers through the rich history of gold. In detailed images and descriptive text, her book shows us gold over the millennia as coinage, jewelry and ornamentation, high-status vessels, and grave goods; as gifts of distinction; and as symbols of magic and worship.
2009 120 color illus. 128 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA New ISBN 978-0-674-03590-4
S ILVER
PHILIPPA MERRIMAN
Philippa Merriman takes the reader back to the earliest uses of silver: in ingots and coins, dowries, hoards, and college plate. She shows us how silver demonstrated statuswhether for an individual, as ornament, furnishings, and a store of wealth; or for a society, as grave decor, civic regalia, and ritual goods. And she traces the long and fascinating history of silvers service as personal adornmenton heads, hands, wrists, ears, legs, and feet, and as accessories ranging from swords and baldrics to snuffboxes, walking sticks, fans, and chatelaines.
2009 110 color illus., 20 halftones 128 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03094-7
New
S ASSETTA The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece

EDITED BY MACHTELT ISRALS
its disassembled panels can be found in twelve museums throughout Europe and the United States. A model of collaboration, this landmark volume opens new windows onto the creative process of the artist as he confronted a late-medieval church at a crossroad of cultures.
2009 400 color illus., 250 halftones 624 pp. Cloth $120.00 / 83.95 ONL ISBN 978-0-674-03523-2
Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 14371444. Originally standing some six yards high, it was the Rolls Royce of early Renaissance painting. But its myriad figures and scenes tempted the collectors of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and today
The Languages of Paradise Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century Maurice Olender
2009; 1992 228 pp. Paper $15.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03062-6
Strangers in the Land Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America Eric J. Sundquist

Belknap 2009; 2005 11 halftones 672 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01942-3 Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03069-5
American Protest Literature Edited by Zoe Trodd

Belknap / The John Harvard Library 2008; 2006 20 halftones 576 pp. Paper $22.95 / 16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02763-3
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A FRIC AN A RT
CHRIS SPRING
IN
D ETAIL
This book opens with the question: What is African art? The answer is a brilliantly colorful and detailed look at the myriad materials and genres, forms and meanings, cultural contexts and expressions that comprise artistic traditions across this vast and varied continent. Viewing artworks in their contextsancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern, decorative and functionalthe book is nothing less than a virtual tour of African culture.
Art in Detail 2010 150 color illus. 144 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03622-2 New
A NCIENT A MERIC AN A RT
COLIN MCEWAN
IN
D ETAIL
This latest title in a strikingly beautiful series of collectable books turns our attention to the rich variety of art from the Ancient Americas. Beginning by asking what constitutes Ancient American art, Colin McEwan contextualizes this art in its complexity of form and meaning. The beauty of the smallest details is magnified and contextualized through accompanying essays written by experts in Ancient American art.
Art in Detail 2009 150 color illus. 144 pp. Cloth $21.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03315-3
Indian Art in Detail A. L. Dallapiccola

Islamic Art in Detail Sheila R. Canby

Japanese Art in Detail John Reeve

Chinese Art in Detail Carol Michaelson and Jane Portal

New
R ES Anthropology and Aesthetics, 55/56, Absconding

EDITED BY FRANCESCO PELLIZZI
This volume includes the editorial Can the referent abscond with its own representation? by Thomas Crow; Ivory towers by Richard Taws; Are shadows transparent? by Roberto Casati; The hidden witness of everything by David Doris; Absconding in plain sight by Roberta Bonetti; Immanence out of sight by Joyce Cheng; A concrete experience of nothing by William Smith; Believing in art by Irene Small; Repositories of the unconditional by Gabriele Guercio; Behind the colonnade by Clemente Marconi; The myth of unmade images and the art of absconding by Gerhard Wolf; Mov-
ing eyes by Bissera Pentcheva; Interior motives by Melissa Katz; A secret kind of charm not to be expressed or discerned by Rebecca Zorach; Out of sight, yet still in place by Minou Schraven; Roma sotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem by Irina Oryshkevich; Style and substance, or why the Cacaxtla paintings were buried by Claudia Brittenham; Apparition painting by Yukio Lippit; Enlivening the soul in Chinese tombs by Wu Hung; Seeing through dead eyes by Jonathan Hay; On the true body of Huineng by Michele Matteini; Boxed in by Miranda Lash; Digitalisation by Boris Groys; and Des figures et des catgories by Remo Guidieri.
Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics / Peabody Museum Press 2009 200 halftones 360 pp. Paper $50.00 / 37.95 ISBN 978-0-87365-854-6
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The New Ancient Greeks

PAGE DUBOIS
Lorenzo Vallas Humanist Critique of Scholastic Philosophy

LODI NAUTA
One of the leading humanists of Quattrocento Italy, Lorenzo Valla (ca. 14061457) has been praised as a brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philosophy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balanced assessment, presenting us with the first comprehensive analysis of the humanists attempt at radical reform of Aristotelian scholasticism. This is by far the best book in any language on Valla as a philosopher. It will immediately take its place on graduate reading lists and in courses on Renaissance humanism and philosophy, and bring Valla into the narrative of Western philosophical history as no book has previously succeeded in doing.
JAMES HANKINS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Out of Athens sets ancient Greek culture next to the global ancient world of Vedic India, the Han dynasty in China, and the empires that survived Alexander the Great. Page duBois also extends the range of classical studies through illuminating transhistorical juxtapositionsancients brush elbows with Colette as she performs as a mummy at the Moulin Rouge, or with Kirk Douglas as he appears on the silver screen as Spartacus. She reads the poetry of Sappho, the tattooed body of the sage Epimenides, as well as Athenian tragedy, Buddhist texts set in a post-Alexandrian Bactria, alongside the work of Judith Butler and Alain Badiou. Page duBois establishes a daring agenda for the next generation of Classicists and, for both the intimate friend of Greek texts and the freshly arrived reader, makes ancient Greeks new. This is a book that should be in the hands of every classicist and serious student of civilizationWestern or otherwise.
THOMAS HABINEK, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
This is a welcome development in scholarship on Valla. Nauta has written a book that will be consulted for a long time to come.
CHRISTOPHER CELENZA, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History 2009 2 tables 416 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03269-9
Page duBois fascinating new book seeks to push beyond the traditional boundaries of the discipline (still) called Classics. It is an exceptionally learned and sophisticated piece of work.
PHIROZE VASUNIA, UNIVERSITY OF READING 2010 256 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03558-4
New
T HE B IRTH
OF
F EMINISM
Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and England

SARAH GWYNETH ROSS
An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Feminism focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in the world of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival materialwills, letters, and manuscript compositionsand on printed writings, Ross gives us an unprecedented sense of educated early modern womens lives. Sarah Ross redraws our maps of Renaissance society and culture in this erudite and fascinating book. She recreates a lost world of women humanists, who found new meanings in ancient texts and new literary possibilities in ancient models. She rediscovers, behind them, another forgotten world, one of generous fathersreal and fictivewho helped women learn, write, and make their way into the public world. And through deft close readings of a wide range of texts, she proves that both in Italy and in England, intellectual women had an extraordinary Renaissance.
ANTHONY GRAFTON, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
A provocative and academic new reading of Renaissance feminism for a post-feminist generation.
KATE LOWE, QUEEN MARY, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON 2009 416 pp. Cloth $49.95 / 36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03454-9
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T HE C ONSOLATION P HILOSOPHY
BOETHIUS
New
OF
C ICERO , XVA , O RATIONS Philippics 1-6

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY D. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY
Translated by David R. Slavitt Introduction by Seth Lerer A Books & Culture Book of the Year
Revised by John T. Ramsey and Gesine Manuwald
This Loeb Classical Library edition of the Philippics replaces the previous translation by Walter C. A. Ker. Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 10643 BCE), Roman advocate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, about whom we know more than we do of any other Roman, lived through the stirring era that saw the rise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In Ciceros political speeches and in his correspondence we see the excitement, tension and intrigue of politics and the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches, 58 survive (a few incompletely), 29 of which are addressed to the Roman people or Senate, the rest to jurors. In the fourteenth century, Petrarch and other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters, of which more than 800 were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others to him. This correspondence affords a revelation of the man, all the more striking because most of the letters were not intended for publication. Six works on rhetorical subjects survive intact and another in fragments. Seven major philosophical works are extant in part or in whole, and there are a number of shorter compositions either preserved or known by title or fragments. Of his poetry, some is original, some translated from the Greek.
Loeb Classical Library 2010 3 maps 400 pp. Cloth $24.00 / 15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-99634-2 New
This is a sensitive and readable translation, whose poetic merits place it beyond other translations of Boethiuss great text.
HENRY TAYLOR
A remarkable translation of one of the great masterpieces of philosophical literature.

GAIL HOLSTWARHAFT, CORNELL UNIVERSITY
This is a beautifully made little book that I have taken with me on a number of trips, partly just for the pleasure of holding it.
JOHN WILSON, BOOKS & CULTURE 2010; 2008 208 pp. Cloth $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03105-0 Paper $14.95 / 11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04835-5
D EMONS
AND
D ANCERS
Performance in Late Antiquity

RUTH WEBB
C ICERO , XV B , O RATIONS Philippics 7-14

EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY D. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY
Outstanding.
DENIS FEENEY, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Pantomimedances which told storiesfired the imagination of the ancient world. In the Roman Empire, dancers were superstar entertainers who wildly excited the audience with their brilliantly expressive and worryingly sexy performances. And as the Roman Empire moved into the Christian Empire, the full force of moral disapproval was brought to bear on the physical display of the dancing body. Demons and Dancers is a superb introduction to this extraordinary story.
SIMON GOLDHILL, AUTHOR OF JERUSALEM 2009 11 halftones 318 pp. Cloth $45.00 / 33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03192-0
Revised by John T. Ramsey and Gesine Manuwald

Loeb Classical Library 2010 Index 384 pp. Cloth $24.00 / 15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-99635-9
Humanist Educational Treatises Translated by Craig W. Kallendorf

The I Tatti Renaissance Library 2008 224 pp. Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03087-9
Invectives Francesco Petrarca

Translated by David Marsh The I Tatti Renaissance Library 2008 320 pp. Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03088-6
On the Donation of Constantine Lorenzo Valla

Translated by G. W. Bowersock The I Tatti Renaissance Library 2008 144 pp. Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03089-3
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W ORRYING
ABOUT
C HINA
The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry

GLORIA DAVIES
Davies persuasively argues that by writing in the idiolects of Derrida, Lacan, Habermas, and Jameson (or Rorty, Hayek, Popper), Chinese higher social and humanistic criticism replaces those theorists skepticism and pluralism with magisterial, even Confucian, epistemological and moralistic certaintyvariously to strengthen Chinas authoritarian state, recuperate Chinas ancient transnational cultural imperium, or integrate China into liberal global capitalism.
J. C. KINKLEY, CHOICE
A crucial source of information and insight for anyone who is interested in coming to grips with the enormously complex discourses that have helped shape post-Mao Chinese intellectual culture and consciousness.
JIWEI CI, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG 2009; 2007 324 pp. Cloth $42.00 / 31.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02621-6 Paper $19.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03225-5
C ITY BETWEEN W ORLDS My Hong Kong

LEO OU-FAN LEE
B EIJING T IME
MICHAEL DUTTON, HSIU-JU STACY LO, AND DONG DONG WU
City Between Worlds balances probing intellectual analysis, fierce criticism, and gentle warmth, all imbued with the frustrated love any city dweller will immediately recognize as the elusive grasp to define where one lives.
MICHAEL BUENING, POP MATTERS.COM
Deeply informed by urban theory and exhibiting an assured feel for the city, Beijing Time paints a vivid picture of Beijings tumultuous transformations.
GYAN PRAKASH, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
[Lees] observations, illuminated by his insightful readings of Shanghai as well as his experiences at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, also draw intelligent connections between society and urban form and literature and film, including both local and foreign observersAn extremely well-illustrated volume.
G. W. MCDONOGH, CHOICE Belknap 2010; 2008 64 color illus., 24 halftones, 4 maps 332 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02701-5 Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04689-4
A fascinating cultural mapping of modern Beijing. Here are ring roads that resemble successive reworkings of the old city wall; here is the district for saw-gash CDs (imperfect discs dumped by western record labels on the Chinese market), where the young bob for Sex Pistols albums The book is a useful street-level corrective to received ideas. In particular, its interviews with citizensan ex-policeman, scavengers in plastic-bag mountains, luminaries of the art scene, cafe owners who dream of being film directors, members of a kind of granny Neighborhood Watch schemeare wonderfully humane.
STEVEN POOLE, THE GUARDIAN 2010; 2008 73 halftones, 4 maps 288 pp. Cloth $26.95 / 19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02789-3 Paper $17.95 / 13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04734-1
Transpacific Imaginations History, Literature, Counterpoetics Yunte Huang

2008 7 halftones, 4 line illus. 202 pp. Cloth $37.00 / 27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02637-7
Brand New China Advertising, Media, and Commercial Culture Jing Wang
2010; 2008 12 halftones, 8 tables 432 pp. Cloth $28.95 / 21.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02680-3 Paper $18.95 / 14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04708-2
Olympic Dreams China and Sports, 1895-2008 Xu Guoqi

Foreword by William C. Kirby 2008 20 halftones 392 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02840-1
ASIA
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Chinese, Korean, and Taiwanese Transculturations of Japanese Literature

KAREN LAURA THORNBER
Drawing extensively on vernacular sources in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book explores how colonial and semicolonial writers discussed, adapted, translated, and recast thousands of Japanese creative works, both affirming and challenging Japans cultural authority. Such efforts not only blurred distinctions among resistance, acquiescence, and collaboration but also shattered cultural and national barriers central to the discourse of empire. In this context, twentieth-century East Asian literatures can no longer be understood in isolation from one another, linked only by their encounters with the West, but instead must be seen in constant interaction throughout the Japanese empire and beyond.
Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Asia Center 2009 1 halftone 550 pp. Cloth $59.95 / 44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03625-3
C RITIC AL A ESTHETICS Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, and Wartime Japan

JAMES DORSEY
This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (19021983), one of the seminal figures in the history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cultural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s. Treating Kobayashis influential works and the historical context in which they are rooted, James Dorsey traces the emergence of a modern critical consciousness in conversation with such concerns as the nature of materiality in capitalist culture, the relationship of narrative to subjectivity, and the nostalgia for beauty in a time of war.
Harvard East Asian Monographs 2009 275 pp. Cloth $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03284-2
T HE T RIUMPH OF M USIC The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art

TIM BLANNING
I NSIDE B EETHOVEN S Q UARTETS History, Performance, Interpretation

LEWIS LOCKWOOD AND THE JUILLIARD STRING QUARTET
This is a provocative and amusing book. Blanning describes not the triumph of good music but the development of Western music generally, from an aristocratic court frill to a powerful social force.
THE ATLANTIC
Independent Publisher Book Awards,
Performing Arts
Very entertaining[Blanning] makes [his case] with grace, humor and a mountain of fascinating detail.
PETER KEEPNEWS, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Belknap 2008 89 halftones; 2 tables 432 pp. Cloth $29.95 / OBE ISBN 978-0-674-03104-3
Beethovens string quartets have been baffling and enchanting academics, musicians, and listeners for almost two centuries. This in-depth guide to three of them combines the scholarship of Lewis Lockwood, one of the worlds leading authorities on Beethoven, with the insights and experiences of the Juilliard String Quartet, brilliant and knowledgeable exponents of his work.
LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
This melding of scholarship and performance is creative, imaginative, and unique, especially since the book includes a performance CD and annotated scores by the Juilliard String Quartet.
M. N.-H. CHENG, CHOICE 2008 82 pages musical scores, 14 music examples, CD 304 pp. Cloth / CD: $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02809-8
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The Harvard Dictionary of Music Edited by Don Michael Randel

Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library 2003 222 line illus., 250 music examples 1008 pp. Cloth $50.00 / 37.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2
New
S ELLING S OUNDS The Commercial Revolution in American Music

DAVID SUISMAN
Suismantell[s] an alluring story.

The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians Edited by Don Michael Randel
Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library 2002; 1999 150 line illus. and musical examples 768 pp. Cloth $35.00 / 25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00084-1 Paper $23.50 / 17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00978-3 GEORGE ANDERS, FORBES.COM
A fascinating, well-written, richly detailed story of how music became a commodity in America [Suismans] scholarship is amazingly wideranging.
WILLIAM F. GAVIN, WASHINGTON TIMES
S PACE , T IME
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A RCHITECTURE
The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition

SIGFRIED GIEDION
This book is an important collection of historical and critical surveys and a brilliant study of the trends and developments of the modern scene with its historical background and true significance. For the general reader interested in the past and its relation to our present, and the specialist in architecture preoccupied with its facets of change, the author has succeeded in presenting a consistently developing process and a clear, concise picture.
EDWARD LAROCQUE TINKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures 2009; 1967 550 halftones 960 pp. Paper $39.95 / 29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03047-3
This [is a] really wonderful book. It warrants repeated readings and deep considerationWellresearched and beautifully documented, replete with beautiful illustrations and photographs, this book belongs on the shelf of any reader serious about popular music and the music industry and given the impact of that industry on our daily lives, that really ought to be all of us.
CHADWICK JENKINS, POPMATTERS.COM
Though the story Suisman tells is a broadly familiar one, he has assembled valuable reminders of something many would rather ignore; namely, the extent to which the music we hear, and how we hear it, has less to do with our personal preferences than with what a large, well-organized sector of business makes available to us. Most listeners and, Id wager, artistswould surely prefer to see their musical experiences as a respite from capitalism, not a function of it. Still, it would be hard to deny that phenomena from the selling of youth culture back to itself in the form of rock and roll to the rise of ringtones as a tiny, publicly audible lifestyle indicator (and a fresh income stream) are rooted in structures and processes whose origins Suisman describes.
FRANKLIN BRUNO, LOS ANGELES TIMES BLOG 2009 41 halftones 368 pp. Cloth $29.95 / 22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03337-5
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H UMAN D OCUMENTS Eight Photographers

CONCEIVED BY ROBERT GARDNER
N O S MALL M ATTER Science on the Nanoscale

FELICE C. FRANKEL AND GEORGE M. WHITESIDES
Felice C. Frankel is Winner of the Photographic
Society of Americas Progress Medal

George M. Whitesides is Winner of the Dreyfus
Edited by Charles Warren Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Kevin Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb
Prize in the Chemical Sciences
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