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A NEW LITERARY HISTORY OF AMERICA

EDITED BY GREIL MARCUS AND WERNER SOLLORS

★ A Salon Best Nonfiction Book of 2009

★ An NPR Best Gift Book of 2009

★ 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 na-tion’s many voices—T. J. Clark, Camille Paglia, JonathanLethem, Sarah Vowell, Gish Jen, and others—in more thantwo hundred original essays. Literature, music, film, art, his-tory, science, philosophy, political rhetoric—cultural cre-ations of every kind appear in over 200 essays.

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“[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 patternsappear. What you see isn’t the past so much as the present.”

—WES DAVIS, WALL STREET JOURNAL

“The feel of the whole is epic…By the time I had made my way through about a third of this book Ibegan to feel an emotion that comes but rarely to a reviewer: pride. Not pride in America’s politics orpolicies 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 wallowin our national history and culture…This book is not so much a history of our literature as it is aliterary version of our history, told through the culture we’ve created to recount our past and conjureour future.”

—LAURA MILLER, SALON

Belknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library2009 27 halftones 1128 pp. Cloth $49.95 / £36.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03594-2

New 20th anniversary edition in paperback

LIPSTICK TRACES

A Secret History of the Twentieth CenturyGREIL MARCUS

“For anybody who wants to go deeper into the ontology of an idea that animatesa kind of music, or is illuminated by that music, read Greil Marcus’s LipstickTraces, just reissued in an expanded edition for the book’s twentieth anniversary. Ioften say that Traces is the best book ever written about music, even though it’snot 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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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS

An Annotated EditionKENNETH GRAHAME

Edited by Seth Lerer

★ A Globe and Mail Best Book of 2009

“Lerer’s book perform[s] magic. [It] demonstrates how much of awriter’s life can wind up distilled in a stack of paper—in this case,how Kenneth Grahame’s daydreams, fears, heartbreak, upbringing,era and locale all sneaked into a fanciful children’s book about talk-ing animals…Lerer’s preface is a thoughtful and elegant survey ofthe biographical and literary context for this beloved book.”

—MICHAEL SIMS, WASHINGTON POST BOOK WORLD

“[An] exquisite new annotated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s masterpiece…It takes us into a pre-modern world of lyrical beauty, with animals that behave like humans, landscapes that are painted forus rather than described, and language more literary than spoken…Rereading this volume, whichHarvard University Press has given all the high production values it deserves, led me to understandmore fully the soporific effects of TheWind in theWillows on children.”

—MARIA TATAR, GLOBE AND MAIL

“For all its apparent celebration of neatness and domestic orderliness TheWind in theWillows is reallya book about letting go. It begins with Mole, tired of spring cleaning, putting aside his whitewashbrush 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, fromNancy Barnhart’s wonderful 1922 version to Arthur Rackham’s in 1940, as well as Paul Bransom’sdeliciously weird 1913 images for Scribner’s.”

—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

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ARTHUR MILLER

CHRISTOPHER BIGSBY

This is the long-awaited biography of one of the twentieth century’sgreatest playwrights, Arthur Miller, whose postwar decade of workearned him international critical and popular acclaim. ChristopherBigsby’s gripping, meticulously researched biography examines hisrefusal to name names before the notorious House on Un-AmericanActivities Committee, offers new insights into Miller’s marriage toMarilyn Monroe, and sheds new light on how their relationship in-formed Miller’s subsequent great plays.

“[A] colossal biography…This is a fat, endlessly informative book,the work of a lifetime…It is as definitive as we are likely to get,with plenty of new material. It also reveals much more than Millerdid in his autobiography, Timebends. Above all, it is a book aboutthe puzzle of politics and art and about the unreliable solution

provided by sex—or Marilyn Monroe as it was once called.”—BRYAN APPLEYARD, SUNDAY TIMES

[A] meteor-size new biography…Bigsby’s 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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THE IDEA OF

JUSTICE

AMARTYA SEN

★ A Globe and Mail BestBook of 2009

“Sen is a world-renownedeconomist and one of thegreatest public intellectualsof India, who has been aleading voice for social andeconomic reforms, break-ing new ground in theanalysis of gender inequal-

ity, famine, and illiteracy. Sen’s range is amazing.His intimacy with the Hindu, Buddhist, and Mus-lim cultures of India, which is beautifully woveninto the book, gives him access to a far greaterrange of argumentation and reasoning than iscommon among philosophers who were educatedexclusively in the Western analytical tradition.”

—MOSHE HALBERTAL, NEW REPUBLIC

“In the courtliest of tones, Sen charges JohnRawls…with sending political thinkers up a tortu-ous blind alley…Such a spirited attack againstpossibly the most influential English-speakingpolitical philosopher of the past 100 years willalone excite attention. The Idea of Justice servesalso as a commanding summation of Sen’s ownwork on economic reasoning and on the elementsand measurement of human well-being…The Ideaof Justice is a feast.”

—THE ECONOMIST

Belknap 2009 496 pp.Cloth $29.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03613-0

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A BRIEFINQUIRYINTO THE

MEANING

OF SIN AND

FAITH

With “On MyReligion”JOHN RAWLS

Edited byThomas Nagel;withcommentaries byJoshua Cohen and Thomas Nagel, and by RobertMerrihew Adams

“No recent secular moralist has been more influen-tial than John Rawls…[A Brief Inquiry into theMeaning of Sin and Faith] undoubtedly reveals aninteresting stage in the development of a highlysignificant philosopher.”

—ANTHONY KENNY,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“Allows us to see how a very intelligent believer,who once considered the priesthood, lost hisChristian faith as a young man.”

—JAMES WOOD, NEW YORKER

2010; 2009 288 pp.Cloth $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03331-3Paper $16.95 / £12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04753-2

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COMMONWEALTH

MICHAEL HARDT AND ANTONIO NEGRI

With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri concludethe trilogy begun with Empire and continued inMultitude, propos-ing an ethics of freedom for living in our common world and articu-lating a possible constitution for our common wealth.

“Everyone seems to agree that our economic system is broken, yetthe debate about alternatives remains oppressively narrow. Hardtand Negri explode this claustrophobic debate, taking readers to thedeepest roots of our current crises and proposing radical, anddeeply human, solutions. There has never been a better time forthis book.”

—NAOMI KLEIN, AUTHOR OF THE SHOCK DOCTRINE

“Commonwealth, last and richest of the Empire trilogy, is a powerful and ambi-tious reappropriation of the whole tradition of political theory for the Left. Clar-ifying Foucault’s ambiguous notion of biopower, deepening the authors’ ownproposal for the notion of multitude, it offers an exhilarating summa of theforms and possibilities of resistance today. It is a politically as well as an intellec-

tually invigorating achievement.”—FREDRIC JAMESON, DUKE UNIVERSITY

“Commonwealth [is] the much-anticipated finalvolume of the Empire trilogy.”—ARTFORUM

Belknap 2009 448 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03511-9

EmpireMichael Hardt andAntonio Negri2001; 2000 504 pp.Paper $24.00 / £17.95ISBN 978-0-674-00671-3

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DARKER THAN BLUE

On the Moral Economies of Black Atlantic CulturePAUL GILROY

Paul Gilroy seeks to awaken a new understanding ofW. E. B. Du Bois’s intellectual and political legacy.At a time of economic crisis, environmental degra-dation, ongoing warfare, and heated debate overhuman rights, how should we reassess the changingplace of black culture?

“Paul Gilroy’s most important gift to cultural criti-cism is the deft manner in which he finds novelways to explicate his great concern: the interweav-ing of ethics and aesthetics, through the exampleof the African American tradition. InDarker thanBlue, Gilroy brilliantly examines some basictensions within African American culture—inparticular the changing relation, over the past half-century especially, between expressions of groupconsciousness and atomistic individualism. Gilroyis delightfully curious and rigorously analytical,making this book a pleasure to read and to arguewith. It reaffirms his position as one of the leadingcultural 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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THE DIALECTIC OF COUNTER-ENLIGHTENMENT

CHRISTIAN THORNE

At its heart, The Dialectic of Counter-Enlighten-ment is a plea not to take doubt at its word—a pleafor the return of a vanished philosophical intelli-gence and for the retirement of an anti-Enlighten-ment thinking that commits, over and over again,the very crimes that it lays at Enlightenment’s door.

“Although thoughtful and carefully contextualized,Thorne’s claims are delivered with the wit andsense of repartee of a brilliant conversationalist,

almost as if Samuel Johnson wereresurrected to join the fray of post-theory debates.”—GEORGE HOFFMANN,

UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

“The Dialectic of Counter-Enlight-enment reminds us that literarystudies matter: this field can illumi-nate the very biggest questions, inthis case the very form and future ofthought itself.”—HELEN DEUTSCH, UCLA

“Christian Thorne’s delightful andstimulating [book] manages a stun-ning achievement. You begin read-ing in the presence of such anengaging and encouraging narrativevoice that you feel as if you arenegotiating the trickiest Adornianturns without training wheels, onlyto realize, as the argument twistsand soars, that you have beenstrapped into the Batmobile allalong. However sure you are of yourtake on Montaigne, the emergenceof utopian literature, seventeenthcentury theater, Hobbes, eighteenthcentury satire or the rise of thenovel, this book will unsettle it.”—CRYSTAL L. BARTOLOVICH,

SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY

2010 390 pp.Cloth $49.95 / £36.95ISBN 978-0-674-03522-5

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IN THE SHADOW OF DU BOIS

Afro-Modern Political Thought in AmericaROBERT GOODING-WILLIAMS

Here, in a major addition to American studies and the firstbook-length philosophical treatment of Du Bois’s thought,Robert Gooding-Williams examines the conceptual founda-tions of Du Bois’s interpretation of black politics.

“Gooding-Williams brings to his rich and original study oftwentieth (and twenty-first) century African Americanthought a philosopher’s respect for argument, a historian’sappreciation of context and influence, a writer’s care for fineand textured readings, and a political theorist’s concern withpower, identity, and democracy. This is an extraordinarybook, one that will elicit gratitude as well as admiration forits thoroughness, intelligence, and measure.”

—WENDY BROWN,UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

“This thoroughly original book is not only the most sophis-ticated philosophical study to date of Du Bois’s early

thought, but it is also aprovocative and notewor-thy contribution to thecontemporary debate overthe content and contoursof black politics in thepost-segregation era.”—TOMMIE SHELBY,

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

2009 368 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-03526-3

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PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, DEMOCRACY

Selected EssaysJOSHUA COHEN

Over the past twenty years, Joshua Cohen has explored the most controversial issues fac-ing the American public: campaign finance and political equality, privacy rights and ro-bust public debate, hate speech and pornography, and the capacity of democracies toaddress important practical problems. In this highly anticipated volume, Cohen drawson this work to develop an argument about what he calls, following John Rawls,“democracy’s 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 reason-giving among equals, and he does so in a way that never ignores political reality. Dailypolitical discourse, Cohen argues, contains conceptions of the social world that borderon philosophical thought. Good philosophical argument develops those conceptionsmore rigorously and generally, and then returns to the world of politics to show howthe conception might be realized there. All too often, Cohen observes, we respond topolitical ideals with ‘a knowing irony of the intellect and a lassitude of the heart.’ Real-istic without cynicism, idealistic without naïveté, Cohen’s book responds to thereal 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 gen-eration. This book is profound, subtle, and relevant. We need his wiseand powerful voice in this age of Obama.”

—CORNEL WEST,PRINCETONUNIVERSITY

2009 408 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95ISBN 978-0-674-03448-8

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MINERVA’S OWL

The Tradition of WesternPolitical ThoughtJEFFREY ABRAMSON

This book serves as a lively andaccessible guide for readers dis-covering the tradition of politicalthought that dates back to Socrates and Plato.

“A splendid book. I can’t imagine a better wayto introduce general readers and students tothe study of politics.”—MICHAEL WALZER,

INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY

“Abramson bestows upon readers the benefitof his decades of teaching political philoso-phy…[with] straightforward and lucid explo-rations of the canonical thinkers.”

—STEVEN CHABOT,LIBRARY JOURNAL

2009 400 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95ISBN 978-0-674-03265-1

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THE CASE AGAINST

PERFECTION

Ethics in the Age of GeneticEngineeringMICHAEL J. SANDEL

“Sandel’s arguments ultimatelyspeak to our gut-level qualms

about enhancement; and his aim in fact is to give thesequalms a coherent moral basis…Sandel wants us at leastto think about the line [between health and enhance-ment], however imaginary—and to think about where,in a hyper-competitive world, re-engineering our natureswill ultimately lead.”

—MICHELE PRIDMORE-BROWN,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“Sandel reminds us that the proper starting point forbioethics is not, ‘what should we do?’ but rather, ‘whatkind of society do we want?’ And ‘what kind of peopleare we?’ ”

—FAITH MCLELLAN, THE SCIENTIST

Belknap 2009; 2007 176 pp.Cloth $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01927-0Paper $12.95 / £9.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03638-3

Radical HopeEthics in the Face ofCultural Devastation

Jonathan Lear2008; 2006 4 halftones208 pp.Paper $15.95 / £11.95ISBN 978-0-674-02746-6

Unmaking the PublicUniversityThe Forty-Year Assault on theMiddle Class

Christopher Newfield2008 9 line illus., 10 tables408 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95ISBN 978-0-674-02817-3

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THE FORM OF PRACTICALKNOWLEDGE

A Study of the Categorical ImperativeSTEPHEN ENGSTROM

Stephen Engstrom provides an illuminating new in-terpretation of the categorical imperative, arguingthat we have exaggerated and misconceived Kant’sbreak with tradition: Kant never departs from theclassical conception of practical reason as a capacityfor knowledge of the good. By developing an ac-count of practical knowledge that situates Kant’sethics within his broader epistemology and rethinksnumerous topics in his moral psychology and in hisaccount of practical reason (including desire, inten-tion, choice, will, as well as pleasure, happiness, andthe good), Engstrom’s work promises to deepen andto reshape our understanding of Kantian ethics.

“Stephen Engstrom provides a highly original in-terpretation of the categorical imperative as thecriterion of rational knowledge and action. Infocusing on the general formula and the law-of-nature variant, and trying to make them work, thebook presents a welcome counterweight to cur-rently fashionable interpretations that dismissthese formulations in favour of the second varia-tion, 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

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FORCE AND FREEDOM

Kant’s Legal and Political PhilosophyARTHUR RIPSTEIN

This book is both an illumination of Kant’s thoughtand an important contribution to contemporarylegal and political theory.

“This is one of the best books on Kant’s legal phi-losophy to appear to date. It is both an outstand-ing commentary on Kant and an important workof legal-political philosophy with much contempo-rary relevance. What is perhaps most impressiveabout this book is how much unity it uncovers inKant’s legal and political thought.”

—MARTIN J. STONE,BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW

“This masterful treatment of Kant’s legal andpolitical philosophy gets to the heart of Kant’sendeavor 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

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KANT AND THE

LIMITS OF

AUTONOMY

SUSAN MELD SHELL

Kant and the Limits ofAutonomy is both a rigor-ous, philosophically and his-torically informed study ofKantian autonomy and anextended meditation on thefoundation and limits of modernliberalism.

“Susan Shell’s commitment tobringing the ‘pre-critical’ to-gether with the ‘critical’ writings,and to exploring questions of de-velopment without losing trackof overall coherence in Kant’sphilosophical adventures,demonstrates that she is at thecutting edge of Kant scholar-ship.”

—JOHN H. ZAMMITO,RICE UNIVERSITY

“Not only a magnificent work ofscholarship, this book is excep-tionally well-written and a pleas-ure to read.”

—PETER FENVES,NORTHWESTERNUNIVERSITY

2009 444 pp.Cloth $55.00 / £40.95ISBN 978-0-674-03333-7

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EXPERIMENTS IN

ETHICS

KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH

“Brilliant…I wish every philoso-pher wrote like Appiah. Experi-ments in Ethics is clear andaccessible (and often veryfunny), and Appiah is generouswhen it comes to discussing thework of those he disagrees with.But this book has teeth, particu-larly when Appiah looks hard atthe emphasis on moral dilemmas.”

—PAUL BLOOM,NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“What can experimentation in the human andnatural sciences contribute to moral philosophy?Appiah’s answer in this concise and balanced bookis effectively ‘something but not everything.’ Re-connecting the empirical with moral theory may,he argues, have productive consequences for bothareas of thought.”

—LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS

Mary Flexner Lecture Series of Bryn Mawr College2009; 2008 288 pp.Paper $15.95 / £11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03457-0

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DOES ETHICS HAVE A

CHANCE IN A WORLD

OF CONSUMERS?

ZYGMUNT BAUMAN

Gracefully, provocatively,Zygmunt Bauman urges us tothink in new ways about anewly flexible, newly challeng-ing modern world. As Baumannotes, quoting Vaclav Havel,

“hope is not a prognostication.” It is, alongsidecourage and will, a mundane, common weapon thatis too seldom used.

“Bauman’s voice is as exemplary as it is powerful.He writes not only in Max Weber’s spirit, but alsoin that of Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno,as well as Hannah Arendt and Norbert Elias. Thisis a very important collection by one of the leadingthinkers of our time.”

—RON EYERMAN, YALE UNIVERSITY

“This thoughtful and elegant little book by one ofthe world’s most humble but distinguished intel-lectuals conveys a sense that the wisdom of a life-time is being distilled here in a pithy but above allin a usable form.”

—PAUL GILROY,LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS

Institute for Human Sciences Vienna Lecture Series2009; 2008 288 pp.Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03351-1

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BEYOND MORAL

JUDGMENT

ALICE CRARY

Alice Crary challenges us toovercome our fixation onmoral judgments and directattention to responses thatanimate all our individual lin-guistic habits. The result is apowerful case for transformingour understanding of the diffi-culty of moral reflection and of

the scope of our ethical concerns.

“The argument is grounded in Wittgenstein andAustin, but it is informed by perceptive readings ofCavell, Murdoch, and Diamond, and textured byreadings of Henry James, Forster, Austen, and Tol-stoy…Viewing ethics as cramped by near-exclusiveattention to the nature of moral judgments, Craryoffers a widening view…This book may wellchange the course of thought about its topic.”

—J. CHURCHILL, CHOICE

“This [is an] important new examination of moralthinking.”

—DUNCAN RICHTER, METAPSYCHOLOGY


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paperback

THE SECOND-PERSONSTANDPOINT

Morality, Respect, andAccountabilitySTEPHEN DARWALL

Why should we avoiddoing moral wrong?The inability of philoso-

phy to answer this question in a compelling mannerresults, Stephen Darwall argues, from our failure toappreciate the essentially interpersonal character ofmoral obligation.

“[An] innovative and engaging new book…It is amine of insight into an aspect of morality that hasescaped sustained exploration.”

—PHILIP PETTIT,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“A rigorous and convincing volume of utmost im-portance to ongoing discussions of the founda-tions of rights and obligations in ethics andjurisprudence, as well as to the current debates onthe foundations of practical rationality.”

—DANIEL M. LAYMAN,REVIEW OF METAPHYSICS


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WHAT IS GOOD

AND WHY

The Ethics of Well-BeingRICHARD KRAUT

“Have Rawls and Nozickmet their match? Thetitans of late-twentieth-century social philosophydo indeed find an acutecritic—and possible suc-cessor—in Kraut. For in

this groundbreaking inquiry into the nature ofgoodness, Kraut exposes the inadequacy of allprevious ethical thinking, including Rawls’ andNozick’s. Kraut is particularly thorough in hisdemolition of the cognitive theory that requireseach individual to construct his or her own defini-tion of the good.”

—BRYCE CHRISTENSEN,BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

“The view [Kraut] develops, while having affinitieswith other recent work, is nevertheless substan-tially original and worked out in impressivedetail.”

—GUY KAHANE,TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT


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UNDERSTANDING PRIVACY

DANIEL J. SOLOVE

As rapidly changingtechnology makes in-formation increasinglyavailable, scholars,activists, and policy-makers have struggledto define privacy, withmany conceding thatthe task is virtually im-possible.

“Instead of reducingthis subject to an aca-demic parlor game,Solove uses interdisci-plinary sources to

offer a convincing argument about why everyoneshould care deeply about understanding the natureof privacy. Legal scholars will want to read thisbook, but so will psychologists, communicationspecialists, public policy makers, philosophers, andanyone interested in where to draw the line be-tween public and private life.”

—D. S. DUNN, CHOICE

“Solove’s book—and his approach to classifyingand dealing with privacy problems—will have aprofound impact on all future privacy debates. Inthat sense, it is a vital text; a must read for all whofollow, 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

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ETHICS

Twelve Lectures on thePhilosophy of MoralityDAVID WIGGINS

Almost every thought-ful person wonders atsome time why moral-ity says what it saysand how it speaks tous. DavidWiggins sur-veys the answers most

commonly proposed for such questions—and doesso in a way that the thinking reader can follow.

“There are few moral philosophers whowill not learn something by studying thisbook and giving it the concentration it de-mands. Whether he is talking about Kantor John Stuart Mill, Rawls or John Mackie,Wiggins has subtle and interesting things tosay.”

—SIMON BLACKBURN, TIMES HIGHEREDUCATION 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

DEATH AND

CHARACTER

Further Reflections onHumeANNETTE C. BAIER

“Provides readers witha rare opportunity toshare the thoughts ofsomeone who hasbeen reading Humeand meditating on histhoughts and life forover 60 years…Baier,

a first-rate Hume scholar, effortlessly weaves to-gether personal reflection, discussion of Hume theman, and scholarly argument, with the result thatthis book is engaging and highly readable.”

—J. H. SPENCE, CHOICE

2008 304 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03090-9

RESCUING JUSTICE AND EQUALITY

G. A. COHEN

★ Winner of the Best Book in Social PhilosophyAward, North American Society for SocialPhilosophy

“Rescuing Justice andEquality is an excep-tionally rich and chal-lenging work. Cohendevelops his ideaswith a remarkabledegree of ingenuity,subtlety, and textualattentiveness. Further-more, they are pre-sented withextraordinary clarity.”—MICHAEL ROSEN,TIMES LITERARYSUPPLEMENT

2008 448 pp.Cloth $45.00 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03076-3

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WHEN IS DISCRIMINATION WRONG?

DEBORAH HELLMAN

“Deborah Hellman has taken on the important and difficult task of trying toestablish logically consistent rules for determining just where in that fuzzyterritory the line between legitimate and illegitimate discrimination should bedrawn. Hellman’s writing is clear and engaging, her examples relevant to thedaily lives of many…Read Hellman’s book as a very competent spur to thinkingthrough for yourself the issues involved in appropriate and inappropriatediscrimination.”—WENDY JOHNSON,TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION SUPPLEMENT

2008 216 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02797-8

MORAL DIMENSIONS

Permissibility, Meaning, BlameT. M. SCANLON

“The first half of the book, on permissibility and meaning, amounts to masterfuland insightful philosophical housekeeping. The second half is revolutionary inthe 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

LIFE AND ACTION

Elementary Structures of Practice and Practical ThoughtMICHAEL THOMPSON

“An exceptional piece of philosophy that is a reservoir of deep insights concern-ing life, action, and practices…Thompson’s theory of action is dazzling—deep,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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New

REASON IN

PHILOSOPHY

Animating IdeasROBERT B.BRANDOM

Transcendentalismnever came to anend in America. Itjust went under-ground for astretch, but is backin full force inRobert Brandom’snew book. An em-

phasis on our capacity to reason, rather than merely torepresent, has been growing in philosophy over the lastthirty years, and Brandom has been at the center ofthis development. This is a paradigmatic work of con-temporary philosophy.

“This work is a formidable achievement that demon-strates deep historical knowledge and awesomehermeneutic and systematic philosophical powersthat, in this degree, are conjoined at best in a handfulof people alive. This is in every way a superior workof philosophy, and shows why Robert Brandomholds a singular position in the discipline world-wide.”

—SEBASTIAN RÖDL, UNIVERSITÄT BASEL

“This book represents a new collection of papers byone of the most important systematic philosophicalthinkers of our time. As such it will be welcomed bythose already familiar with Brandom’s thought. Atthe same time, by connecting his views to familiarhistorical themes, Brandom has provided what is, tomy mind, the most accessible route into his oftendauntingly complex ideas, a route strongly recom-mended to those new to his work.”

—MARK LANCE, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY


New

LOOKING AWAY

Phenomenality andDissatisfaction, Kantto AdornoREI TERADA

Rei Terada revisits de-bates about appear-ance and reality inorder to make a star-tling claim: that thepurpose of such de-bates is to police feel-ings of dissatisfactionwith the given world.Terada proposes thatthe connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeralphenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternativeto aesthetics that expresses our right to desire some-thing other than experience “as is,” even those parts ofit that really cannot be otherwise.

“We have ‘Looked Awry’ with Žižek, and now we‘Look Away’ with Terada—and what do we see?Terada’s scintillating study reveals all that is to begained—intellectually, aesthetically, politically—fromtarrying with the apparent. This slender volume isthe best of guides to what its author calls ‘phenom-enophilia,’ a strong inclination to cultivate ephemeralperceptual experience, and the perils and pleasuresthereof, as these are anatomized in the writings ofKant, Coleridge, Nietzsche, and Adorno. This workof Terada’s helps us imagine how to think more freely,and her accounts of these writers respective takes onexperiences of the fleeting, the glimpsed, the evanes-cent are themselves queer in the most errant sense ofthe term.”

—MICHAEL MOON, EMORY UNIVERSITY

“This original book’s contribution is of the best kind:not to provide a set of answers, but to open up awhole 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

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Providence LostGenevieve Lloyd2008 384 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03153-1

Naturalism in QuestionEdited by Mario De Caro andDavid Macarthur2008; 2004 350 pp.Cloth $60.50 / £44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01295-0Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03041-1

Thinking How to LiveAllan Gibbard2008; 2003 6 tables 320 pp.Cloth $57.50 / £42.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01167-0Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02730-5

Moral LiteracyBarbara Herman2008; 2007 352 pp.Cloth $47.50 / £35.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02467-0Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03052-7

Reasonably ViciousCandace Vogler2009; 2002 304 pp.Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03072-5










LONELINESS AS A WAY OF LIFE

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 experi-ence of loneliness. But we have written our experience of loneliness deeply into thelanguage. That too, though, goes to underscore the point that Mr. Dumm’s honestbook makes: While the ‘lonely self will always be with us,’ we can at least come to-gether in search of imaginative ways of expressing that loneliness. We can ‘write andread 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 978-0-674-03113-5Paper $16.95 / £12.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04788-4

New in paperback

THE SELF AWAKENED

Pragmatism UnboundROBERTO MANGABEIRA UNGER

“This book reads like something from a bygone age. Unger has given readers ahumanist manifesto, a text more at home in the 1930s than in the postmodern age.It is that rarest of things: an earnest book…Unger contests the claims of academicphilosophy to naturalize all aspects of human existence in the name of science. In-stead, he offers readers the hope that human beings will be able to transcend theirlimitations 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 whosethinking has the range of the great philosophers of the past…It is a polemic and a callto action, but what it challenges us to do most of all is to experiment with how we liveand think. It is many years since I found myself as inspired and provoked by a book ofnon-fiction. Unger aims at nothing less than to invent a new kind of politics, which isevolutionary in style but revolutionary in outcome…This is a philosophy as ambitiousas 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

‘YO!’ AND ‘LO!’

The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of ReasonsREBECCA KUKLA AND MARK LANCE

“‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’ is an innovative investigation into the philosophy of language. It moves the pragmaticsof language center-stage in a way unlike anything I have seen before. The authors offer us a new wayof approaching important questions about what language does and what we can do with it. This is atruly 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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HAVING THE

WORLD IN VIEW

Essays on Kant, Hegel,and SellarsJOHN MCDOWELL

A crucial moment camein the developing splitbetween Anglo-Americanand continental Euro-pean philosophers whenG. E. Moore andBertrand Russell rebelled

against the “Hegelianism” of their teachers andinaugurated the tradition of “analytic” philosophy. Inthis new book, John McDowell builds on his muchdiscussedMind andWorld—one of the most highlyregarded books in contemporary philosophy.McDowell, who has long commanded attention forhis fresh approach to issues in contemporary episte-mology, philosophy of language, and philosophy ofmind, shocked some mainstream analytic philoso-phers inMind andWorld by drawing inspiration notonly from analytic philosophers but also from conti-nental philosophers, most notably Hegel.

McDowell argues that the roots of some problemsplaguing contemporary philosophy can be found inissues that were first discerned by Kant, and that thebest way to get a handle on them is to follow thoseissues as they are reshaped in the writings of Hegeland Sellars.Having the World in View will be a deci-sive further step toward healing the divisions in con-temporary philosophy, by showing how centralmethods of the two traditions remain deeply entan-gled and by revealing how philosophers in bothcamps might still learn from each other.

2009 304 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03165-4

THE ENGAGEDINTELLECT

Philosophical EssaysJOHN MCDOWELL

The Engaged Intellect col-lects important essays ofJohn McDowell. Each in-volves a sustained engage-ment with the views of animportant philosopher andis characterized by a mod-esty that is partly tempera-mental and partly methodological. It is typical ofMcDowell to represent his own best insights either asalready to be found in the writings of his heroes(Aristotle, Wittgenstein, Gadamer, and Sellars) or asinevitably emerging from a charitable modificationof the views of those (such as Anscombe, Sellars,Davidson, Evans, Rorty, Dreyfus, and Brandom)subjected here to criticism. McDowell therefore de-velops his own philosophical picture in these pagesthrough a method of indirection. The method is oneof intervening in a philosophical dialectic at a charac-teristic juncture—in which it is difficult to avoid thefeeling that further progress is required. McDowellshows how progress is to be achieved by preservingwhat is most attractive in the views of those he is inconversation with, while whittling away their weak-nesses. As he practices this method, what emergesthrough the volume is the unity of McDowell’s ownviews. The combination of philosophical breadthwith dialectical depth—of intricate argumentativedetail with overall philosophical coherence—marksMcDowell as one of the most compelling philoso-phers of our time.

2009 360 pp.Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03164-7

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Mind in LifeBiology,Phenomenology, andthe Sciences of Mind

Evan Thompson

★ HonorableMention,CanadianPhilosophicalAssociationAwards

Belknap 20078 color illus., 12 lineillus., 2 tables 568 pp.Cloth $49.95 / £36.95ISBN 978-0-674-02511-0

Truth andPredicationDonald DavidsonEdited by KevinSharpe

Belknap 2008; 2005192 pp.Paper $18.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-03040-4

Expression andthe InnerDavid H.Finkelstein2008; 2003 194 pp.Paper $24.95 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-03044-2

Self-ConsciousnessSebastian Rödl2007 222 pp.Cloth $42.00 / £31.95ISBN 978-0-674-02494-6

In the Space ofReasonsSelected Essays ofWilfrid Sellars

Wilfrid SellarsEdited by KevinScharp and RobertB. Brandom

2007 5 line illus.528 pp.Cloth $47.50 / £35.95ISBN 978-0-674-02498-4















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QUANTUM LEAPS

JEREMY BERNSTEIN

This is a lively, erudite book on asubject that Jeremy Bernstein haslived with for most of its history.His experience and deep under-standing are apparent on everypage.

“Bernstein, a former New Yorkerstaff writer and prolific

popular-science author,embarks on an almostquixotic attempt to ex-

plain the mysteries of quan-tum mechanics. It’s a daunting

topic. The leg-endary nuclearphysicist NielsBohr once said,‘Those who arenot shockedwhen they firstcome acrossquantum theory

cannot possibly have understood it.’Bernstein seamlessly interweaves thestory of his own growing fascinationwith quantum theory and the peoplewho were influential in nurturinghis career with the theoretical co-nundrums that abound in quan-tum theory. He also is very eclectic

in the sources he draws on to explain some of themore remarkable aspects of quantum theory: theDalai Lama, W. H. Auden and the plays of TomStoppard all provide relevant points of interest.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Belknap 2009 240 pp. Cloth $18.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-03541-6

PERSONS AND THINGS

BARBARA JOHNSON

“Persons and Things securesBarbara Johnson’s place as themost important literary critic ofour day. This exhilaratingly intel-ligent book is an American gram-matology of pop culture,advertisements, and politicalrhetoric. Johnson provides lucid,even thrilling insights into therhetorical framing of living sub-jects, legal persons, non-persons

and things. Filled with the phantasmagoria of talk-ing tombstones, babbling Barbies, puppets, pets,and golden calves, Persons and Things is a trove ofcracklingly decoded insight.”

—PATRICIA WILLIAMS, AUTHOR OFALCHEMY OF RACE AND RIGHTS

2008 272 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-02638-4

New

EVOLUTION

The First Four BillionYearsEDITED BYMICHAEL RUSE ANDJOSEPH TRAVIS

Foreword by EdwardO. Wilson

Evolution opens with aseries of major essaysdealing with the history and philosophy of evolu-tionary biology, with major empirical and theoreti-cal questions in the science, from speciation toadaptation, from paleontology to evolutionary de-velopment, and concluding with essays on the socialand political significance of evolutionary biologytoday.

“If ever there were an education in a book, there’sone in this massive volume…What is most proba-bly the commemorative par excellence of theOrigin of Species sesquicentennial.”

—RAY OLSON,BOOKLIST (STARRED REVIEW)

“Half essay collection, half encyclopedia, it’spacked with everything you’ll ever want or need toknow about the sci-ence of evolution.”

—ZELDAROLAND,WIRED

Belknap 2009 145figures 1008 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-03175-3

DEPTH

An Account ofScientific ExplanationMICHAEL STREVENS

“Depth is an excellent book—the best treatment ofexplanation in the philosophical literature.Michael Strevens draws on a wealth of scientificand philosophical knowledge to craft a theory thatis true to the facts about how scientific explanationactually works, while avoiding the traps that havesnared previous attempts at providing a systematictheory.”

—BRIAN WEATHERSON,CORNELL UNIVERSITY

“Strevens proposes a substantial revision and up-grading of traditional causal approaches to expla-nation in the sciences. Focusing on what he calls‘causal difference-making,’ the non-causal relation‘entanglement,’ and requiring progressive abstrac-tion toward deeper explanatory models employinglower-level causal laws, Strevens outlines a theoryof explanation that will no doubt attract a signifi-cant amount of interest—especially among thoseinterested in the structure of the biological and so-cial sciences (for which it has interesting conse-quences).”

—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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BENJAMIN’S-ABILITIES

SAMUEL WEBER

★ An Artforum BestBook of the Year

“In contrast to the bur-geoning secondary liter-ature on Benjamindevoted to broad themes(his ‘messianism,’ his‘Marxism,’ etc.), SamuelWeber, who hasachieved academic prominence with scholarshipon the Frankfurt School, psychoanalysis, decon-struction and media culture, opens up a fertile av-enue of interpretation by paying close attention toa stylistic idiosyncrasy running through Benjamin’soeuvre…[Weber] deftly navigates this labyrinth ofinterpretations, exhibiting a keen sense of Ben-jamin’s singularly elusive style of thinking andwriting.”

—ROSS BENJAMIN,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“Not only the best read of 2008 but, with a shelffull of works on Walter Benjamin, the best bookon him I’ve ever read.”

—ROSALIND KRAUSS, ARTFORUM

2010; 2008 376 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02837-1

THE WORK OF ART IN THE AGE OF

ITS TECHNOLOGICALREPRODUCIBILITY, AND OTHER

WRITINGS ON MEDIA

WALTER BENJAMIN

Edited by Michael W. Jennings, Brigid Doherty, andThomas Y. Levin

“Until recently, Walter Benjamin’s seminal essay,TheWork of Art in the Age of Its Technological Re-producibility, was available to English-speakingreaders only in the version that appeared in the1968 collection Illuminations. Harvard’s new vol-ume of the German cultural critic’s writings onmedia offers as its title-piece an earlier, edgier in-carnation—the second of three composed between1935 and 1939—in a superior translation…Thisvolume amply demonstrates the keenness and in-genuity of Benjamin’s intuitions at the dawn ofmodern media culture.”

—ROSS BENJAMIN,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Belknap 2008 22 halftones 448 pp.Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02445-8

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THEODOR W. ADORNO

One Last GeniusDETLEV CLAUSSEN

Translated by Rodney Livingstone

★ Ungar German Translation Award, the American Translators Association

“Claussen is illuminating on his subject’s politics, cultural heritage, his-torical context, musicology, intellectual liaisons and reflections on theculture 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 usinterwoven 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

The Veil of IsisAn Essay on the History of the Idea ofNature

Pierre HadotTranslated by Michael Chase

Belknap 2008; 2006 18 halftones 432 pp.Paper $18.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-03049-7

Re-Engineering Philosophy forLimited BeingsPiecewise Approximations to Reality

William C. Wimsatt2007 1 halftone, 22 line illus., 3 tables472 pp. Cloth $52.50 / £38.95ISBN 978-0-674-01545-6











New in paperback

ARTSCIENCE

Creativity in the Post-GoogleGenerationDAVID EDWARDS

This book is an attempt to showhow innovation in the post-Google generation is often cat-alyzed by those who cross aconventional line so firmlydrawn between the arts and thesciences.

“[Artscience] is less a technical tool than a motiva-tional one: an exhortation for interdisciplinary in-tellectuals…Edwards infects us with his subjects’creativity. When the final chapter turns fromvignettes to his utopian Laboratoire, we’re rootingfor it to succeed.”

—ALICE W. FLAHERTY, NATURE

“There are scientists, and there are artists. Now,there are art scientists…David Edwards explainshow this group of thinkers melds the two disci-plines in innovative ways to make lasting and im-portant breakthroughs for the betterment ofhumanity, culture, academia, and industry.”

—V. L. HENDRICKSON, NEW YORK SUN

“In his concise book, Edwards…shares the storiesof people who have found ways to cross this bar-rier [between art and science]—artscientists, hecalls them—and elegantly communicates the cat-alytic effect of their interdisciplinary leaps.”

—DANIELLA MAESTRETTI, UTNE READER


New in

paperback

WHIFF

DAVID EDWARDS

Illustrated byJunko Murata

Whiff is the new novelby David Edwards(Séguier). It is illus-trated by the JapaneseManga artist JunkoMurata and continuesthe story of Edwards’

first novel,Niche, co-authored with Jay Cantor(Plessis).Whiff derives from an actual experimentperformed in Paris at the art and science innovationcenter, Le Laboratoire. In this latest experiment, thedouble-Michelin-starred chef Thierry Marx collabo-rated with the colloidal scientist Jérôme Bibette tointroduce a new way of encapsulating flavors. Wish-ing to present these delectable capsules in an un-usual way, a group of art and science collegestudents developed with Edwards a new way of eat-ing by aerosol, called whiffing.Whiff, whose publi-cation coincides with the commercialization by LeLaboratoire of aerosolized chocolate, explores howwe dream, and realize our dreams, throughsurprising combinations of aesthetic and analyticalmethods.Whiff is also accompanied by the first“whiffing” recipes.

Idea Translation Lab Series2009 100 line drawings 172 pp.Paper $27.95 / £20.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03286-6

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THE STRUGGLE AGAINST DOGMATISM

Wittgenstein and the Concept of PhilosophyOSKARI KUUSELA

“Kuusela’s book is an important and original contribution to the discussion ofWittgenstein’s conception of philosophy, and will be of interest to all scholars work-ing 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

Love’s ConfusionsC. D. C. Reeve2007; 2005 224 pp.Cloth $23.95 / £17.95ISBN 978-0-674-01711-5Paper $17.00 / £12.95ISBN 978-0-674-02563-9










CONFESSIONS OF A CONFIRMED EXTENSIONALISTAND OTHER ESSAYS

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 philosophyand their interconnections. His investigations into semantics and epistemology, on-tology and causality, natural kinds, time, space, and individuation transformed thephilosophical landscape for generations to come. In the twenty years between his lastcollection of essays and his death in 2000, Quine continued his work, producing anumber of impressive essays in which he deepened, elaborated, and occasionallymodified his position on central philosophical issues. The last of these essays, whichgives this collection its name, appeared in 2002.

This volume collects the main essays from this last, productive period of Quine’sprodigious career. It also includes some notable earlier essays that were not includedin the previous collections although they contain illuminating discussions and arequite often referred to by other philosophers and also by Quine himself in his laterwritings. These essays, along with several manuscripts published here for the firsttime, offer a more complete and highly defined picture than ever before of one of thetwentieth century’s 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

QUINE IN DIALOGUE

W. V. QUINE

Edited by Dagfinn Føllesdal andDouglas B. Quine

“Føllesdal and D. Quine have edited asuperb collection of W. V. Quine’s in-terviews, important articles, reviews,and comments on other philosopherssuch as Rudolf Carnap, Bertrand Rus-sell, Donald Davidson, and P. F. Straw-son. The unique theme of this handyvolume is Quine’s manner of engagingpeers, critics, and students. The editorshave chosen the pieces that make newpoints or expand upon his other writ-ings; some of these have been un-earthed recently in the Quine archiveand are previously unpublished. Thechapters reveal Quine’s characteristicgenius, wit, clarity of thought, and suc-cinct prose.”

—L. B. MCHENRY, CHOICE

2008 1 line illus. 392 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03083-1

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QuintessenceBasic Readings from the Philosophyof W. V. Quine

W. V. QuineEdited by Roger F. Gibson, Jr.

Belknap 2008; 2004 448 pp.Paper $22.95 / £16.95SBN 978-0-674-02755-8







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EARTHLY PARADISE

Myths and PhilosophiesMILAD DOUEIHI

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

Milad Doueihi contemplates key moments in the philosophical reception anduses of Paradise, marked by the rise of critical and historical methods in the EarlyModern period.

“Anyone who wants to understand the ethical turn in modern philosophy, orthe intellectual roots of the Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, needs toread Doueihi’s account of the philosophical conditions under which our ideas ofparadise developed and were at last overthrown. In this lucid study, beautifullytranslated 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 Doueihi’s beautiful book does not seek to lift the mystery over earthly paradise. He shows, withselect 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 thesame Biblical categories it seeks to undermine.”

—FABRICE HADJAJ, ART PRESS

2009 192 pp. Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03285-9

THE PECULIAR LIFE OF SUNDAYS

STEPHEN MILLER

“[A] lively history of a day that has exercised a pecu-liar hold on countless human beings for the past2,000 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 in-formative and diverting—as suitable for the melan-choly Sunday mornings of the Velvet Undergroundas the lazy afternoons of the Small Faces.”—TOBY LICHTIG,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

2008 320 pp. Cloth $27.95 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-03168-5

A SECULAR AGE

CHARLES TAYLOR

★ Charles Taylor is Winner of the TempletonPrize★ 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








Christianity and theTransformation ofthe BookOrigen, Eusebius, and theLibrary of Caesarea

Anthony Grafton andMegan WilliamsBelknap 2008; 200615 halftones 384 pp.Paper $18.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-03048-0

What Happened atVatican IIJohn W. O’MalleyBelknap 2010; 20088 halftones, 1 line illus.400 pp.Paper $18.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-04749-5

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BE ALWAYS CONVERTING, BE ALWAYS CONVERTED

An American PoeticsROB WILSON

RobWilson’s reconceptualization of the American project of conversion beginswith the story of Henry ‘Opukaha’ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christian-ity, “torn from the stomach” of his Native Pacific homeland and transplantedto New England. By mapping the poetics and politics of conversion and coun-terconversion, Wilson returns conversion to its central place in the Americanliterature, history, and psyche. Through ‘Opukaha’ia’s story, and through theworks of the Tongan social scientist and fiction writer Epeli Hau’ofa, WildWest poet Ai, and the mercurial Bob Dylan, Wilson demonstrates that conver-sion—seemingly an anachronistic concern in this secular age—is instead aglobal, yet deeply American subject, less about “salvation” or finality thanabout “experimentation” and the quest for modern beatitude.

“This book dives deep into the American cultural psyche of conversion andcounter-conversion and delineates fascinating routes of turns and returns inthe active making, recreating, and reimagining of self and world in the post-colonial U.S. Empire.”

—YUNTE HUANG, AUTHOR OF TRANSPACIFIC IMAGINATIONS

“Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted is Rob Wilson’s hymn to thePacific…[The] religious emphasis is fresh, often profound, and important, assteeped in Jimi Hendrix as it is in William James, and conveys a lived invest-ment in spiritual becoming. The book is written generally in the ecstaticmode of many of its subjects, and will confirm Rob Wilson’s reputation asthe beat poet of American Studies.”

—ERIC LOTT, AUTHOR OFTHE DISAPPEARING LIBERAL INTELLECTUAL

2009 1 halftone 336 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03343-6

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ON THE ORIGIN OF STORIES

Evolution, Cognition, and FictionBRIAN BOYD

“Insightful, erudite, and thoroughly original…Aside from illuminating the human love of fiction,[Brian Boyd] proves that consilience between the humanities and sciences can enrich both fields ofknowledge.”—STEVEN PINKER, AUTHOR OF THE STUFF OF THOUGHT

“No one thinks on this scale anymore. Bent to the cultivation of shrinking plots of expertise, enlivenedby 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 celebration…Boyd’s treatment isengrossing, as elegant in the writing as the reasoning. It offers a new insight into the question of whysome 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

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WORLDS MADE BY WORDS

Scholarship and Community in the ModernWestANTHONY GRAFTON

Anthony Grafton reveals the microdynamics of the scholarly life through aseries of essays on institutions and on scholars ranging from early modernpolymaths to modern intellectual historians to American thinkers and writ-ers. In our noisy, caffeinated world it has never been more challenging to bea scholar. Grafton’s engaging, erudite essays could be a rallying cry for therevival of the liberal arts.

“Anthony Grafton, Grand Master of libraries and reading, has written abook-lover’s guide to the Republic of Letters.Worlds Made byWords:Scholarship and Communities in the ModernWest traces the literate tradi-tion from the codexes of humanist scholars to what he calls the ‘dematerial-

ized’ book of today. A superb achievement.”—ALBERTO MANGUEL, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“The scope of Grafton’s volume is vast, and the topics it addresses are uniformly important. He takeshis readers on a long journey, from the Republic of Letters to the Babel of the Internet. If it is hard tosay whether or not the road leads upward to the light, there is no doubt that we could not ask for any-one wiser to lead us. Like Dante’s 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 tradi-tions with present trends. He regards recent developments in technology, and their effects on librariesand on reading, as both a blessing and a burden…The larger, more troubling question is: Who willread them in the future?…Nevertheless, he himself represents the best proof that the Republic ofLetters is alive and kicking.”

—ERIC ORMSBY, WALL STREET JOURNAL

2009 5 halftones 432 pp. Cloth $29.95 / £22.95ISBN 978-0-674-03257-6

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THE PROGRAM ERA

Postwar Fiction and theRise of CreativeWritingMARK MCGURL

Mark McGurl argues that far from occa-sioning a decline in the quality or interest ofAmerican writing, the rise of the creative writing program has instead gener-ated a complex and evolving constellation of aesthetic problems that havebeen explored with energy and at times brilliance by authors ranging fromFlannery O’Connor to Vladimir Nabokov, Philip Roth, Raymond Carver,Joyce Carol Oates, and Toni Morrison. An engaging and stylishly writtenexamination of an era we thought we knew, The Program Era will be at thecenter of debates about postwar literature and culture for years to come.

“Opinionated and lively…McGurl delivers a cornucopia of exciting newideas and insights in a work which will be indispensable reading for teachers and students of creativewriting, and for anyone interested in modern fiction.”

—ÉILÍS NÍ DHUIBHNE, IRISH TIMES

“If we’re lucky, McGurl’s book will inaugurate for us a new genre of literary history that, thoughwholly intelligible to the general reader, doesn’t pull its punches or water down the complexity of itsvision.”

—LEE KONSTANTINOU, THE BELIEVER

“McGurl’s book is not a history of creative-writing programs. It’s a history of twentieth-centuryfiction, in which the work of American writers from Thomas Wolfe to Bharati Mukherjee is readas reflections of, and reflections on, the educational system through which so many writers nowpass…An 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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AGENCY AND EMBODIMENT

Performing Gestures/Producing CultureCARRIE NOLAND

Carrie Noland examines the ways in which cultureis both embodied and challenged through the cor-poreal performance of gestures. Arguing against theconstructivist metaphor of bodily inscription domi-nant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kines-thetic experience, produced by acts of embodiedgesturing, places pressure on the conditioning abody receives, encouraging variations in culturalpractice that cannot otherwise be explained.

“This highly original book brilliantly rethinks oneof the crucial blind spots of poststructuralist the-ory—the evasiveness about, or failure to resolve,issues of agency. Agency and Embodiment is anextremely important and intelligently articulatedintervention into the profound dilemmas we facein understanding how to navigate the complexitiesof contemporary cultural landscapes.”

—AMELIA JONES,UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

“Noland challenges Michel Foucault’s metaphor ofbodily inscription by proposing gesture as scrip-tural—having the characteristics of writing.Agency and Embodiment constitutes a highly origi-nal contribution to thinking on the body, power,and culture across fields in the arts, humanities,and social sciences, from a decidedly interdiscipli-nary perspective.”

—MARK FRANKO, UNIVERSITY OFCALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ

2009 9 halftones, 15 line illus. 272 pp.Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03451-8

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LAW AND LITERATURE

Third EditionRICHARD A. POSNER

The book remains the clearest, most acute accountof the intersection of law and literature.

“This complex, superbly argued book remains aremarkable achievement and is made even moreuseful in this new edition. Richard Posner knowshow much legal thinking can profit from the studyof literary traditions and classic works of fiction.He also is acutely aware of the limits on the appli-cation of literary practice to the law. The bracingmanner in which he debunks the sentimentalnotion that literature and—worse—literary theoryare law’s salvation is a pleasure to read.”

—DENIS DUTTON, EDITOR,PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE

“With his usual astonishing range of interests,Posner treats facets of ‘law and literature’ rangingfrom popular culture to copyright to whether read-ing great literature necessarily contributes to one’smoral growth (and more besides). Every readerwill be provoked, challenged, and illuminated byPosner’s insights and arguments.”

—SANFORD V. LEVINSON, AUTHOR OFOUR UNDEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION

2009 1 table 592 pp.Paper $24.95 / £18.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03246-0

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RACE AND ERUDITION

MAURICE OLENDER

Translated by Jane Marie Todd

Beginning with a brilliant study of the Protocols of Zion, this book turnsto 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, Dumézil,and Momigliano. Maurice Olender elegantly teases out the cultural history of the word “race,” a history thatexplains its diverse political uses and its continuing relevance to our global contemporary society. In doingso, he provides an accessible and lucid pathway through the labyrinth of race and erudition and examineshow to deal with diversity without the problematic heritage of racial stereotypes.

“A brilliant, riveting work…It is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand the fabric, or rather thefabrication, at the highest (and lowest) levels, of the social fictions and myths of otherness, by which welive 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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THE SIXTIESUNPLUGGED

A Kaleidoscopic History of aDisorderly DecadeGERARD J. DEGROOT

This book revisits the Sixties weforgot or somehow failed to wit-ness. In a kaleidoscopic globaltour of the decade, GerardDeGroot reminds us that the“Ballad of the Green Beret” out-sold “Give Peace a Chance,” thatthe Students for a DemocraticSociety were outnumbered byYoung Americans for Freedom,that revolution was always a pipedream, and that the Sixties be-long to Reagan and de Gaullemore than to Kennedy andDubcek.

“In his meaty, rich text,DeGroot argues that the realspirit of the ‘60s has been lostin a deluge of nostalgia. The‘free’ decade, the freak show,was one in which China’s Cul-tural Revolution proved to beone of the worst atrocities ofthe 20th century. The sixties,he argues, were shaped more bythe election of Reagan as thegovernor of California than byKennedy. We’ve ‘chosen’ to for-get about Sharpeville, the GazaStrip and Jakarta. The so-called‘revolution’ of the sixties, as weknow it, didn’t really exist. His-tory, he argues, is not necessar-ily an accurate representation ofwhat happened—but the waywe view that it happened. Hisbook, disguised as a coffee table‘light read,’ is sure to spark con-troversy. It is, in effect, a historybook. Only in it, DeGroot sayswhat few history books havethe guts to.”—CAITLIN O’TOOLE,PARADE

2009; 2008 528 pp.Cloth $29.95 / COBEEISBN 978-0-674-02786-2Paper $18.95 / COBEE ISBN 978-0-674-03463-1

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FEELING BACKWARD

Loss and the Politics of Queer HistoryHEATHER LOVE

“A brilliant work…Love looks fearlessly at litera-ture from the past in which circumstances relatedto gender tend to produce victims rather thanheroines. She establishes that our literature hasbeen affected by homophobia and demands thatwe consider the implications of this fact. Love con-tends that we need to look at history and socialpolitics less like Lot’s wife, who’s destroyed bylooking back, and more like Odysseus, who listensto the past but isn’t destroyed by it. The pasthaunts us whether we acknowledge it or not.”

—MARTHA MILLER,GAY AND LESBIAN REVIEW WORLDWIDE


New in paperback

DELIRIOUS MILTON

The Fate of the Poet in ModernityGORDON TESKEY

“An important and elegant book, for which allsensible Miltonists and lovers of poetry should begrateful.”

—NEIL FORSYTH,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“An interesting reaffirmation in today’s often con-trary academic climate of a poetic approach toMilton, swiping at those who would specializeMilton studies into obscurity. He is refreshinglysuspicious of narrowly historicist or theologicalreadings and even calls Milton’s poetry ‘shamanis-tic,’ which will have certain Miltonists choking ontheir historicist porridge.”

—WILLIAM POOLE,LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS


IS MILTON BETTER THAN

SHAKESPEARE?

NIGEL SMITH

“This engagingly informal but thoroughly in-formed volume answers the title’s question in theaffirmative: Milton is better for Americans todayin that he stands for political liberty…This bookdeserves the attention of a broad audience.”

—E. D. HILL, CHOICE

“Smith is moved by the allegorical quest inAreopagitica for the lost body of Truth, by Milton’sexalted notions of the purpose of true poetry, andby the identification of the heroicpoet 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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POPULAR FRONT PARIS AND THE POETICS OF CULTURE

DUDLEY ANDREW AND STEVEN UNGAR

The subject of this book is the frenzied cross-pollination of politics and culture inFrance during the tumultuous 1930s. This magnificent study has as its point of de-parture cinematographic culture and techniques. Andrew and Ungar deliver brilliantclose readings of numerous films—both classics and cheap commercial enterprises—to illuminate the spheres of political imagination…The authors’ many years of laboron this book were well spent. No one committed to cultural history can ignore thisbook and its powerful and persuasive methodology. This is interdisciplinary work atits very best.”

—N. R. FITCH, CHOICE

Belknap 2008; 2005 105 halftones 464 pp.Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02716-9

ETHNIC MODERNISM

WERNER SOLLORS

“Restless and powerful, Ethnic Modernism does more than reconnect modernismwith 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 firsthalf 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 isan important new literary history of the period, informed by vast erudition and tact-ful interpretation, ranging gracefully across the visual arts, music, and film, and pre-sented 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

WELLSPRINGS

MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

“In seven incisive essays, novelistand Peruvian political aspirantVargas Llosa reflects on literatureand history, the crucial role of fic-tion in human society and the link between totalitari-anism and nationalism. Lucidly and elegantly, heexplores the sources of inspiration for his literary oeu-vre, analyzing the significance for Latin American writ-ers of Borges, whose works served to ‘dispel a kind ofinferiority complex…that kept us imprisoned in aprovincial outlook.’”—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

“[Vargas Llosa] frequently—and tellingly—reminds usthat fiction must have the power to enchant us.”—ADAM FEINSTEIN,TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature2008 208 pp.Cloth $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02836-4


Sexual FluidityUnderstandingWomen’s Love and Desire

Lisa M. Diamond

★ Finalist, Independent Publisher BookAwards, Gay/Lesbian Category

2009; 2008 352 pp.Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03226-2

The Economy of PrestigePrizes, Awards, and the Circulation of CulturalValue

James F. English

★ A New York Magazine BestAcademic Book

2008; 2005 17 halftones 432 pp.Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03043-5

Born in FlamesTermite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, andPop Apocalypses

Howard Hampton2008; 2007 496 pp.Cloth $28.95 / £21.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02317-8Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02732-9













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HER BRILLIANT CAREER

The Life of Stella Miles FranklinJILL ROE

★ Queensland Premier’s Literary Award

Born in the Australian bush, Stella MilesFranklin became an international publishing sen-sation in 1901, at the age of 21, withMy Bril-liant Career, whose portrayal of an ambitious

and independent woman de-fying social expectations stillcaptivates readers. In a magis-terial biography, Jill Roe de-tails Miles’ extraordinary life.

Early success launched Miles into influential literary and socialistcircles in Sydney and Melbourne, where she met Banjo Paterson(composer of “Waltzing Matilda” and author of The Man fromSnowy River) and suffragist Vida Goldstein (who introduced herto Christian Science). Researching the lives of working women,Miles disguised herself as a domestic for a year. She then lit outfor adventure abroad, landing in San Francisco just after theGreat Earthquake. At Jane Addams’ Hull House in Chicago, shejoined the women’s labor movement, working for the NationalWomen’s Trade Union League and writing for its magazine. Re-turning to Australia in the1930s, she supported women’scauses and promoted Aus-tralian writers, leaving her es-tate to endow the nation’spremier literary award.

Belknap 200972 halftones, 1 map 752 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 OANZISBN 978-0-674-03609-3

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VOICE AND VISION

A Guide toWriting Historyand Other Serious NonfictionSTEPHEN J. PYNE

Voice and Vision is for thosewho wish to understand the ways in which literary considerationscan enhance nonfiction writing. At issue is not whether writing isscholarly or popular, narrative or analytical, but whether it isgood.

“Voice and Vision is as much a tour de force of critical reading asit is an incomparable guide to the writing of history, a brilliantelaboration of the subtle dialect between ‘art’ and ‘craft’ in non-fiction prose.”—MIKE DAVIS, AUTHOR OF PLANET OF SLUMS

“Pyne offers a powerful and persuasive case for works that com-bine the techniques of great literature—including a novelist’s

eye for narrative, language, character development, and scene setting—with a historian’s passion for fac-tual accuracy and respect for the rules of evidence. This is a remarkable book.”

—STEVEN MINTZ, AUTHOR OF HUCK’S RAFT

“This engaging discussion of historical narrative is part meditation and part manual. It distills the experi-ence, 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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THE QUOTABLE ABIGAIL ADAMS

ABIGAIL ADAMS

Edited by John P. Kaminski

John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail that herletters “give me more entertainment than allthe speeches I hear. There is more goodThoughts, fine strokes and Mother Wit inthem than I hear in the whole Week. AnOunce of Mother Wit is worth a Pound ofClergy.” The Quotable Abigail Adams invitesyou to enjoy Abigail’s wit and wisdom on awide range of subjects, drawn from writingsthroughout her lifetime.

“The Service of this Government is not a Bed ofRoses, in any department of it.”

“A Nation which does not respect itself, cannotexpect to receive it from others.”

“Gentlemen are not half as particular as theLadies are in their details.”

“No woman of sense will ever make herHusband an object of Ridicule; for inproportion as she lowers him she lessens herself.”

“A woman may forgive the man she loves anindiscretion, but never a neglect.”

“There is no musick sweeter in the Ears ofparents, than the well earned praises of theirchildren.”

“Better is a little contentment than greatTreasure; and trouble therewith.”

“Time, which improves youth, every yearfurrows the brow of age.”


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SAMUELJOHNSON

SelectedWritingsEDITED BYPETER MARTIN

At the center ofthis collectionare the periodicalessays from theRambler, Adven-turer, and Idler.Also included are

Johnson’s great moral fable, Rasselas; the Prefacesto theDictionary and his edition of Shakespeare;and selections from Lives of the Poets.

“Readers should find much pleasure and insightin this collection.”

—ANTHONY PUCCI, LIBRARY JOURNAL

“We see in [Johnson’s] essays the tiny brushworkof brilliant self-portraiture; we hear the rhythmof moral seriousness, the sound of contempla-tion as it engages with the questions of how tolive and how to manage in the face of death. Butmost of all we feel the reach of an author—awriter attempting to reach past self-doubt,poverty, cant, and orthodoxy, in order to assertthe power of individual authorship and freethinking in the face of more nebulous authori-ties. Samuel Johnson…brought both dignity andself-sufficiency to the writing game.”

—ANDREW O’HAGAN,NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS


SAMUEL JOHNSON

A BiographyPETER MARTIN

★ Kansas City Star Top 10 Notable Bookof the Year

★ Atlantic Magazine Best Book of the Year,Runner-up

“A deeply felt, beautifully written account of apersonality about whom we cannot knowenough.”

—GEORGE SIM JOHNSTON,WALL STREET JOURNAL

“[An] outstanding new biography.”—CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS,THE ATLANTIC

“For a man who bragged and twitched andstank, Johnson had a lot of friends, and Mar-tin superintends them like a film director:poet Charlotte Lennox, painter JoshuaReynolds, novelist Fanny Burney and, ofcourse, future laird and biographer JamesBoswell.”

—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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BIOGRAPHY

A Brief HistoryNIGEL HAMILTON

“A rich and provocative meditation on thehistory of biography.”

—SCOTT STOSSEL,NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“Entertaining history…There is much to gleanfrom this brisk examination of our love affairwith individuality.”

—CRAIG TAYLOR, FINANCIAL TIMES

“Hamilton…has distilled enormous wisdominto his remarkable little book.”

—JOHN M. AND PRISCILLA S. TAYLOR,WASHINGTON TIMES

2009; 2007 20 halftones 360 pp.Cloth $21.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02466-3Paper $15.95 / £11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03471-6

HOW TO DO BIOGRAPHY

A PrimerNIGEL HAMILTON

“Hamilton’s passion, lyricism and collection oftelling anecdotes make this ‘short book of advice’an unexpected page-turner; it’s hard not to getcaught up in the author’s romantic vision of bi-ography, a form he believes has nearly as manypermutations as music. Elucidating not just thedos and don’ts of biography, but also the whysand 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

HADRIAN

Empire and ConflictTHORSTEN OPPER

“[Assembles] artifacts from around the world,including stunning sculptures,bronzes, coins, mosaics, and fine in-terpretive texts about the man whowas 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 / NAISBN 978-0-674-03095-4

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ORLANDO FURIOSO

A New Verse TranslationLUDOVICO ARIOSTO

Translated by David R. Slavitt

Introduction by Charles S. Ross

The appearance of David R. Slavitt’s translation ofOrlando Furioso(“Mad Orlando”), one of the great literary achievements of the ItalianRenaissance, is a publishing event. With this lively new verse transla-tion, Slavitt introduces readers to Ariosto’s now neglected master-piece—a poem whose impact onWestern literature can scarcely beexaggerated. It was a major influence on Spenser’s Faerie Queene.William Shakespeare borrowed one of its plots. Voltaire called it theequal of the Iliad, the Odyssey, andDon Quixote combined. More re-cently, 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 bringsthe poem to life in ways previous translators have not.

“This is an immensely skillful, useful, and entertaining translation, provocative of out loud laughtersometimes, as well as the thrill of melodrama. It makes available to English readers a work previouslylanguishing in the category of the unclimbable mountain. The result is immediate and enriching.”

—HENRY TAYLOR


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THE COLLECTED WORKS OF

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

Volume VIII, Letters and Social AimsHISTORICAL INTRODUCTION BYRONALD A. BOSCO

Notes and Parallel Passages by Glen M. Johnson

Textual Apparatus by Joel Myerson

Letters and Social Aims, published in 1875, contains essays originallypublished early in the 1840s as well as those that were the product ofa collaborative effort among Emerson, his daughter Ellen TuckerEmerson, his son EdwardWaldo Emerson, and his literary executorJames Eliot Cabot. The volume takes up the topics of “Poetry andImagination,” “Social Aims,” “Eloquence,” “Resources,” “TheComic,” “Quotation and Originality,” “Progress of Culture,” “Persian

Poetry,” “Inspiration,” “Greatness,” and, appropriately for Emerson’s last published book, “Immortality.”

The historical introduction demon-strates for the first time the declinein Emerson’s creative powers after1865; the strain caused by the prepa-ration of a poetry anthology and de-livery of lectures at Harvard duringthis time; the devastating effect of ahouse fire in 1872; and how theEmerson children and Cabotworked together to enable Emersonto complete the book. The textualintroduction traces this collaborativeprocess in detail and also providesnew information about the genesisof the volume as a response to a pro-posed unauthorized British editionof Emerson’s works.

Belknap / Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson2010 670 pp. Cloth $95.00 / £70.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03560-7

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The Collected Works ofRalph Waldo EmersonVolume VII, Society and SolitudeHistorical Introduction, Notes, and ParallelPassages by Ronald A. Bosco

Text Established and TextualIntroduction byDouglas Emory Wilson

Belknap / Collected Works ofRalph Waldo Emerson2008 542 pp.Cloth $89.50 / £66.95ISBN 978-0-674-02627-8








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ODES

FRANCESCO FILELFO

Edited and translated by Diana Robin

Francesco Filelfo (1398–1481), one of the greatscholar-poets of the Italian Renaissance, was theprincipal humanist working in Lombardy in themiddle of the Quattrocento and served as courtpoet to the Visconti and Sforza dukes of Milan. Hislong life saw him as busy with politics, diplomacy,and intrigue as with literature and scholarship, leav-ing him very often on the run from rival factions—and even from hired assassins. The first Latin poetof the Renaissance to explore the expressive poten-tial of Horatian meters, Filelfo adapted the tradi-tions of Augustan literature to address personal andpolitical concerns in his own day. TheOdes, com-pleted in the mid-1450s, constitute the first com-plete cycle of Horatian odes since classical antiquityand are a major literary achievement.

The I Tatti Renaissance Library 2009 480 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03563-8

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LATIN POETRY

JACOPO SANNAZARO

Translated by Michael C. J. Putnam

Jacopo Sannazaro (1456–1530), considered bysome authorities the finest Neo-Latin poet of theItalian Renaissance, spent most of his career inNaples, where he was a member and ultimatelythe head of the Academia Pontaniana. He is mostfamous for having written, in Italian, the first pas-toral romance in European literature, the Arcadia(1504). But after this early work, Sannazaro devotedhimself entirely to Latin poetry modeled on hisbeloved Vergil. In addition to his epic The VirginBirth (1526), which earned him the title of “theChristian Vergil,” he also composed PiscatoryEclogues, an innovative adaption of the eclogueform, as well aselegies, epi-grams, and anumber ofshorter works.This volumecontains thefirst completeEnglish trans-lation of all ofSannazaro’spoetry inLatin, accom-panied by ex-tensive notes.

The I TattiRenaissanceLibrary 2009592 pp.Cloth$29.95 / £19.95ISBN 978-0-674-03406-8

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WILLIAM BLAKEON SELF AND

SOUL

LAURA QUINNEY

Blake’s central topic,Laura Quinney shows us,is the discomfiture ofbeing a self or subject.The greater the insecurityof the “I,” Blake believed,the more it tries to swellinto a false but mighty“Selfhood.” And the larger the Selfhood bulks, thelonelier it grows. But why is that so? How is the il-lusion of “Selfhood” created? What damage does itdo? How can one break its hold? These questionslead Blake to some of his most original thinking.

“Quinney powerfully rereads both Blake’s earlywork and his later visionary poems as an unfoldingrecord of the embattled psyche. This extremelyimportant contribution to our understanding ofBlake should appeal not just to Blakeans but to allwho think about the psychology of transcen-dence.”

—PAUL FRY, YALE UNIVERSITY

“Much of William Blake’s most extraordinarywork depends on his concept of ‘Selfhood.’ LauraQuinney has gone beyond all previous attempts todeal with Blake’s treatment of what it means to bea solitary consciousness. Quinney illuminatesBlake’s very original relationship to the Gnosticheresy and his astonishing vision of what mightredeem our humanity without falling into receiveddoctrines.”

—HAROLD BLOOM

2010 216 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03524-9

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THE SONGS AND SONETS OF

JOHN DONNE

Second EditionJOHN DONNE

Edited by Theodore Redpath

There is perhaps no superior edition of Donne’s Songs andSonets than Theodore Redpath’s wonderful annotated vol-ume. Out of print for a decade, the book is reprinted here ina revised edition.

“Redpath’s edition of Donne’s Songs and Sonets is the mostuseful and reliable in existence. I commend it strongly.”

—HAROLD BLOOM

“Redpath’s edition of Donne’s Songs and Sonets provides a superb introduction tothese poems which have for so long remained central to English verse. Drawing on es-tablished knowledge and shrewd, original critical insights, this volume speaks illumi-natingly 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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New in paperback

THE COLLECTEDPROSE OF

ROBERT FROST

ROBERT FROST

Edited by Mark Richardson

“The fullest critical edition ofFrost’s prose ever published, in-cluding everything ‘Frost isknown to have prepared forprint, major and minor itemsalike.’…Examples of his witand insight abound.”—RON CHARLES,WASHINGTON POST BOOKWORLD

“There is page after page in theCollected Prose of this slightlygrand and teasing and ironicsort of talk…Reading theprose, finding him saying onething in terms of another, thepleasure of ulteriority is oursalso. In the Collected Prose wefind, to borrow a phrase fromhis poem ;Two Tramps in MudTime,’ ‘The lurking frost in theearth beneath.’”—IAN SANSOM,THE GUARDIAN

Belknap 2009; 2008 416 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95ISBN 978-0-674-02463-2Paper $19.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-03467-9

New in paperback

DIVAGATIONS

STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ

Translated by Barbara Johnson

“This is a book just the way Idon’t like them,” the father ofFrench Symbolism, StéphaneMallarmé, informs the reader inhis preface toDivagations: “scat-tered and with no architecture.”On the heels of this caveat, Mal-larmé’s diverting, discursive, andgorgeously disordered 1897masterpiece tumbles forth—andproves itself to be just the sort ofbook his readers like most.

“An unequivocal tour de force. Mallarmé’s Frenchechoes through and the English sounds authenticand coherent. But the fact that this translation isJohnson’s reading of Mallarmé is its chief value.”

—M. GADDIS ROSE, CHOICE

“[A] lustrous new English translation…I don’tknow whether I’ve expressed excitedly or lucidlyenough my sense of this translation’s importance.”

—WAYNE KOESTENBAUM, BOOKFORUM

Belknap 2009; 2007 312 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02438-0Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03240-8

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THE NOTEBOOKS OF ROBERT FROST

ROBERT FROST

Edited by Robert Faggen

Robert Frost is one of the most widely read, wellloved, and misunderstood of modern writers. In hisday, he was also an inveterate note-taker, penningthousands of intense aphoristic thoughts, observa-tions, and meditations. These notebooks, tran-scribed and presented here in their entirety for thefirst time, offer unprecedented insight into Frost’scomplex and often highly contradictory thinkingabout poetics, politics, education, psychology, sci-ence, and religion.

“Eight hundred pages of wisdom and prophecy,raving and rant, expertly edited and annotated byRobert Faggen.”

—CHRISTOPHER BENFEY, NEW REPUBLIC

“Since Frost used his notebooks to think throughhis poems, his essays and his teaching, they revealonly his working mind—and that’s revelationaplenty.”

—DAVID GATES, NEWSWEEK

“Offers unprecedented insight into the workingsof a superlative poetic intelligence, and reveals, be-neath the calm, assured surface of Frost’s verse, asearching mind troubled and dazzled by the chaosof modern life.”


Belknap 2009; 2007 5 halftones 848 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02311-6Paper $19.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03466-2

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SONGS OF OURSELVES

The Uses of Poetry in AmericaJOAN SHELLEY RUBIN

“This humane, at times exhaustingly detailed liter-ary history dignifies, against the critics’ aestheticjudgments, the comfort, pleasure and emotionalrichness readers found in popular poetry. And as asocial historian, Rubin…succeeds in showing howthis poetry was adopted by educators, churches,immigrant groups and other organizations to pro-mote various social and cultural goals.”

—TOM SLEIGH,NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“When subjected to the tensions of a powerfulnation in a tumultuous era, the timeless appeals ofpoetry will naturally take distinctive and surprisingforms. Ms. Rubin has chosen to survey some ofthese surprises over 70 years of explosive Americanhistory from the lingering aftermath of the CivilWar through the ravages of two world wars to thetechnological 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

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Coming of Age asa PoetMilton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

Helen Vendler2004; 2003 4 halftones202 pp.Cloth $22.95 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-01024-6Paper $20.00 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-01383-4

Our SecretDisciplineYeats and Lyric Form

Helen VendlerBelknap 2007 448 pp.Cloth $35.00 / COBEEISBN 978-0-674-02695-7

Poets ThinkingPope, Whitman, Dickinson,Yeats

Helen Vendler2006; 2004 160 pp.Cloth $19.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-01567-8Paper $17.00 / £12.95ISBN 978-0-674-02110-5

The Art ofShakespeare’sSonnetsHelen Vendler

★ A National BookCritics CircleNominee, GeneralNonfiction

Belknap 1999; 1997696 pp.Mixed $45.00 / £33.95ISBN 978-0-674-63711-5Paper $24.50 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-63712-2

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The CanonThe Original One Hundredand Fifty-Four Poems

Constantine CavafyTranslated byStratis HaviarasForeword bySeamus Heaney

Hellenic Studies 2007465 pp.Paper $24.95 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-02586-8

Emily Dickinson’sHerbariumA Facsimile Edition

Emily DickinsonIntroduction byRichard B. SewallForeword byLeslie A. MorrisPreface by Judith FarrAppendix by Ray Angelo

Belknap 200668 color illus. 208 pp.Cloth $138.50 / £102.95ISBN 978-0-674-02302-4

The Poems ofEmily DickinsonReading Edition

Emily DickinsonEdited by R. W. Franklin

★ R. W. FranklinReceived theEmily DickinsonInternational SocietyAward

★ Umhoefer PrizeBelknap 2005; 1999696 pp.Cloth $36.50 / £27.95ISBN 978-0-674-67624-4Paper $19.50 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-01824-2

The Gardens ofEmily DickinsonJudith Farrwith a chapter byLouise Carter

★ Rose Mary CrawshayPrize of the BritishAcademy

2005; 2004 24 color illus.,12 tritone illus. 368 pp.Cloth $26.95 / £19.95ISBN 978-0-674-01293-6Paper $22.50 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-01829-7

One Writer’s BeginningsEudora Welty

★ New York Times Bestseller and an AmericanBook Award Nominee for Nonfiction

The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History ofAmerican Civilization2004; 1998 17 halftones 128 pp.Paper $15.00 / £11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-63927-0CD-audio $28.50 / £21.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01579-1



















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LICENTIOUSGOTHAM

Erotic Publishing andIts Prosecution inNineteenth-CenturyNew YorkDONNA DENNIS

Donna Dennis offers acolorful, groundbreak-ing account of thebirth of an indecentprint trade and theorigins of obscenityregulation in theUnited States.

“Much of Licentious Gotham is undeniably en-tertaining…Donna Dennis has certainly writtenan important work of American cultural andlegal history.”

—MICHAEL DIRDA, WASHINGTON POST

“Dennis traces the ways in which provocativematerial was passed off as edifying, like theguides to the city’s prostitutes that purported tosteer unknowing rubes away from their clutches.And she also notes that prohibitions of one sortof racy material only led to another innovation,often more popular than the first.”

—SUSAN DOMINUS,NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

“From simple erotic fanfiction to the blockbustersensory assaults commonto the Internet, eroticpublishing online hasbeen fought every step ofthe way but persevered inmanner not too differentthan Dennis’ history oferotic print. Perhaps, thiswill be the true legacy ofthe book: by illustrating apreviously unknownstruggle in the past, cul-tural critics will stop cry-ing falling-sky whenever anew erotic meme cropsup on the Internet.”

—ERIK HINTON, POPMATTERS.COM

2009 24 halftones 408 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03283-5

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THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF

COMPUTATION

DAVID GOLUMBIA

Driven by a programmer’s knowledge of com-puters as well as by a deep engagement with con-temporary literary and cultural studies and post-structuralist theory, The Cultural Logic ofComputation provides a needed corrective to theuncritical enthusiasm for computers commontoday in many parts of our culture.

“The Cultural Logic of Computation is a bril-liant, audacious book. It might be described as arollicking, East Coast version of Alan Liu’s TheLaws of Cool—or one part Laws of Cool, onepart Seeing Like a State, with more than a dashof Baudrillard and Virilio for brio. Golumbia’sargument is that contemporary Western andWesternizing culture is deeply structured byforms of hierarchy and control that have theirorigins in the development and use of computersover the last 50 years. I look forward to pressingthis book on friends and colleagues, startingwith anyone who has ever recommended TheWorld is Flat to me.”

—LISA GITELMAN, AUTHOR OFALWAYS ALREADY NEW

“The Cultural Logic of Computation is a fascinat-ing and wise book. It takes us with great carethrough the history of the computational imagi-nation and logic, from Hobbes and Leibniz to

blogging and corporate practice. Itsrange includes the philosophy ofcomputation, the ideology of the dig-ital revolution, the important areas ofchildren’s education and education ingeneral and glimpses of brilliant liter-ary insight. Required reading for theresponsible citizen.”—GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK

“Golumbia is no Luddite; he readilyadmits that computers have broughta wide range of benefits to society.His chief purpose, though, is todemonstrate that these benefits comeat the cost of accepting the techno-philic ideology, and changing how weperceive our own essence as humanbeings.”

—ROB HORNING, POPMATTERS.COM

2009 272 pp.Cloth $30.00 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03292-7

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THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE CLASSICS IN AMERICA

Greece, Rome, and the Antebellum United StatesCARL J. RICHARD

In a masterful study, Carl Richard explores how the Greek and Roman classics be-came enshrined in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of theclassics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, AfricanAmericans, and frontier settlers.

“In a lucid and readable book, Carl Richard clearly demonstrates the ongoing im-portance of classicism in the decades before the Civil War in the United States. Fo-cusing on well-established figures in the American political and literary canon, heshows how the ideals of the classical world continued to provide Americans withone 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 inU.S. intellectual history up to 1865.”

—R. I. FRANK, CHOICE

2009 272 pp. Cloth $45.00 / £33.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03264-4

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COMEUPPANCE

Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and OtherBiological Components of FictionWILLIAM FLESCH

With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinkingabout the novel sinceWalter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller andWayne C. Boothon the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionarypsychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form andcontent flawlessly intermesh.

“What Flesch undertakes with skill and cunning is what might be called the con-version 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 ishard to imagine a reader who would not learn from its arresting arguments or takepleasure in the freshness of its juxtapositions. This is a book of immense original-ity and energy. Flesch opens up—for literary critics of every persuasion—new ways of thinking about thebooks they love.”

—NICK HALPERN, AUTHOR OF EVERYDAY AND PROPHETIC


AFFECTIVE MAPPING

Melancholia and the Politics of ModernismJONATHAN FLATLEY

“Affective Mapping is one of those rare books that makes difficult theoretical propositions and counterin-tuitive 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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DISTURBING THE

PEACE

Black Culture and the PolicePower after SlaveryBRYAN WAGNER

W. C. Handy waking up to theblues on a train platform, BuddyBolden eavesdropping on thedrums at Congo Square, JohnLomax taking his phonographrecorder into a southern peniten-tiary—some foundational myths

of the black vernacular remain inescapable, even asthey come under increasing pressure from skeptics.InDisturbing the Peace, BryanWagner revises thehistory of the black vernacular tradition and gives anew account of black culture by reading thesemyths in the context of the tradition’s ongoing en-gagement with the law.

“This is a great book. I am enriched and funda-mentally challenged by its erudition, its attentionto detail and the force of its extremely powerful ar-guments. It is my sense that anyone working inblack studies has to contend with this work [and]anyone who contends with this work will findtheir own work richer for having done so.”

—FRED MOTEN, DUKE UNIVERSITY

“Audacious and path-breaking…If the policepower criminalized blacks in the New South, theinvention of the vernacular tradition sugared overthis onslaught of violence. Wagner exposes the fan-tasy of folklore. AfterDisturbing the Peace, it willbe impossible to hear Leadbelly or read UncleRemus without knowing what it means to marketemphatic inequality as universal culture.”

—COLIN DAYAN, AUTHOR OFTHE STORY OF CRUEL AND UNUSUAL

2009 12 halftones 320 pp. Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-03508-9

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paperback

ECOLOGYWITHOUT

NATURE

RethinkingEnvironmentalAestheticsTIMOTHY MORTON

Timothy Mortonargues that the chiefstumbling block to en-vironmental thinking is

the image of nature that most writers on the topicpromote: they propose a new worldview, but theirvery zeal to preserve the natural world leads themaway from the “nature” they revere.

“Original and important critiques of ecocriticaltheory…Its occasionally irreverent style and em-brace of kitsch make it an enjoyable read.”

—JANET FISKIO,ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY

“Drawing on writers from Adorno to Zizek, andconsidering literature and art from the 18th cen-tury to the present, Morton offers a complex, im-portant, and often playful argument that lays thegroundwork for new directions in ecocriticism.”

—G. D. MACDONALD, CHOICE

2009; 2007 262 pp.Paper $22.95 / £16.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03485-3

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StealingLincoln’s Body

Thomas J.Craughwell

★ Amazon.com, A Top100 Book of the Year

Belknap 2009; 200726 halftones 288 pp.Cloth $24.95 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-02458-8Paper $14.95 / £11.95ISBN 978-0-674-03039-8

My Dearest FriendLetters of Abigail andJohn Adams

Edited byMargaret A. Hoganand C. James TaylorBelknap 2007 19 colorillus., 9 halftones 528 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-02606-3

Popular BohemiaModernism and UrbanCulture in Nineteenth-Century Paris

Mary Gluck2008; 2005 41 engravings238 pp.Paper $22.95 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-02731-2

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GOLD

SUSAN LA NIECE

In tracing the history of gold through theages, this beautiful book showcases the multifari-ous uses to which the precious metal has been put. Drawing on her ownlong experience investigating the art and science of metallurgy, Susan LaNiece guides readers through the rich history of gold. In detailed imagesand descriptive text, her book shows us gold over the millennia ascoinage, jewelry and ornamentation, high-status vessels, and gravegoods; as gifts of distinction; and as symbols of magic and worship.

2009 120 color illus. 128 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03590-4

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SILVER

PHILIPPA MERRIMAN

Philippa Merriman takes the reader back to the earliest uses of silver: iningots and coins, dowries, hoards, and college plate. She shows us howsilver demonstrated status—whether 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 silver’s service as personal adorn-ment—on heads, hands, wrists, ears, legs, and feet, and as accessories ranging fromswords 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

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The Languages ofParadiseRace, Religion, andPhilology in the NineteenthCentury

Maurice Olender2009; 1992 228 pp.Paper $15.95 / £11.95ISBN 978-0-674-03062-6

Strangers in theLandBlacks, Jews, Post-HolocaustAmerica

Eric J. SundquistBelknap 2009; 200511 halftones 672 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-01942-3Paper $22.95 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-03069-5

American ProtestLiteratureEdited by Zoe TroddBelknap /The John Harvard Library2008; 200620 halftones 576 pp.Paper $22.95 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-02763-3

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SASSETTA

The Borgo San Sepolcro AltarpieceEDITED BY MACHTELT ISRAËLS

Sassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolution-ized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the smallTuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437–1444.Originally standing some six yards high, it was theRolls Royce of early Renaissance painting. But itsmyriad figures and scenes tempted the collectors ofthe nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and today

its disassembled panels can befound in twelve museumsthroughout Europe and theUnited States.

A model of collaboration, thislandmark volume opens newwindows onto the creativeprocess of the artist as he con-fronted a late-medieval churchat a crossroad of cultures.

2009 400 color illus., 250 halftones 624 pp.Cloth $120.00 / £83.95 ONL ISBN 978-0-674-03523-2













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AFRICAN ART IN DETAIL

CHRIS SPRING

This book opens with the question:What is African art? The answer is abrilliantly colorful and detailed look atthe myriad materials and genres,forms and meanings, cultural contextsand expressions that comprise artistictraditions across this vast and variedcontinent. Viewing artworks in theircontexts—ancient and modern, urban and rural, western and eastern,decorative and functional—the book is nothing less than a virtual tour ofAfrican culture.

Art in Detail 2010 150 color illus. 144 pp. Cloth $22.95 / NA ISBN 978-0-674-03622-2

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ANCIENT AMERICAN ART IN DETAIL

COLIN MCEWAN

This latest title in a strikingly beautiful series of collectable books turns our attention to the rich variety ofart from the Ancient Americas. Beginning by asking what constitutes Ancient American art, Colin McEwancontextualizes this art in its complexity of form and meaning. The beauty of the smallest details is magnifiedand 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

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RES

Anthropology and Aesthetics, 55/56, AbscondingEDITED BY FRANCESCO PELLIZZI

This volume includes the editorial “Can the referentabscond with its own representation?” by ThomasCrow; “Ivory towers” by Richard Taws; “Are shadowstransparent?” by Roberto Casati; “The hidden wit-ness of everything” by David Doris; “Absconding inplain sight” by Roberta Bonetti; “Immanence out ofsight” by Joyce Cheng; “A concrete experience ofnothing” byWilliam Smith; “Believing in art” byIrene Small; “Repositories of the unconditional” byGabriele Guercio; “Behind the colonnade” byClemente Marconi; “The myth of ‘unmade’ imagesand the art of absconding” by GerhardWolf; “Mov-

ing eyes” by Bissera Pentcheva; “Interior motives” byMelissa Katz; “‘A secret kind of charm not to be ex-pressed or discerned’” by Rebecca Zorach; “Out ofsight, yet still in place” by Minou Schraven; “Romasotterranea and the biogenesis of New Jerusalem” byIrina Oryshkevich; “Style and substance, or why theCacaxtla paintings were buried” by Claudia Britten-ham; “Apparition painting” by Yukio Lippit; “En-livening the soul in Chinese tombs” byWu Hung;“Seeing through dead eyes” by Jonathan Hay; “Onthe ‘true body’ of Huineng” by Michele Matteini;“Boxed in” by Miranda Lash; “Digitalisation” byBoris Groys; and “Des figures et des catégories” byRemo Guidieri.

Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics / Peabody Museum Press2009 200 halftones 360 pp. Paper $50.00 / £37.95ISBN 978-0-87365-854-6

Indian Art in DetailA. L. DallapiccolaArt in Detail 2007150 color illus. 144 pp.Cloth $22.95 / NAISBN 978-0-674-02691-9

Japanese Art inDetailJohn ReeveArt in Detail 2006150 color illus. 144 pp.Cloth $22.95 / NAISBN 978-0-674-02391-8

Islamic Art in DetailSheila R. CanbyArt in Detail 2006150 color illus. 144 pp.Cloth $22.95 / NAISBN 978-0-674-02390-1

Chinese Art inDetailCarol Michaelson andJane PortalArt in Detail 2006150 color illus. 144 pp.Cloth $22.95 / NAISBN 978-0-674-02389-5















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IN DEFENSE OF

COMMONSENSE

Lorenzo Valla’sHumanist Critique ofScholastic PhilosophyLODI NAUTA

One of the leading hu-manists of Quattro-cento Italy, LorenzoValla (ca. 1406–1457)has been praised as a

brilliant debunker of medieval scholastic philoso-phy. In this book Lodi Nauta seeks a more balancedassessment, presenting us with the first comprehen-sive analysis of the humanist’s attempt at radical re-form of Aristotelian scholasticism.

“This is by far the best book in any language onValla as a philosopher. It will immediately take itsplace on graduate reading lists and in courses onRenaissance humanism and philosophy, and bringValla into the narrative of Western philosophicalhistory as no book has previously succeeded indoing.”

—JAMES HANKINS, HARVARD UNIVERSITY

“This is a welcome development in scholarship onValla. Nauta has written a book that will be con-sulted for a long time to come.”

—CHRISTOPHER CELENZA,JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY

I Tatti Studies in Italian Renaissance History2009 2 tables 416 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03269-9

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OUT OF ATHENS

The NewAncient GreeksPAGE DUBOIS

Out of Athens sets ancientGreek culture next to the globalancient world of Vedic India,the Han dynasty in China, andthe empires that survivedAlexander the Great. PageduBois also extends the range ofclassical studies through illumi-nating transhistorical juxtapositions—ancientsbrush elbows with Colette as she performs as amummy at the Moulin Rouge, or with Kirk Dou-glas as he appears on the silver screen as Spartacus.She reads the poetry of Sappho, the tattooed bodyof the sage Epimenides, as well as Athenian tragedy,Buddhist texts set in a post-Alexandrian Bactria,alongside the work of Judith Butler and Alain Ba-diou. Page duBois establishes a daring agenda forthe next generation of Classicists and,for both the intimate friendof Greek texts and the freshlyarrived reader, makes ancientGreeks new.

“This is a book that should bein the hands of every classicistand serious student of civiliza-tion—Western or otherwise.”

—THOMAS HABINEK,UNIVERSITY OFSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

“Page duBois’ fascinating newbook seeks to push beyond the tra-ditional boundaries of the discipline (still) called‘Classics.’ It is an exceptionally learned and sophis-ticated piece of work.”

—PHIROZE VASUNIA,UNIVERSITY OF READING

2010 256 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03558-4

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THE BIRTH OF FEMINISM

Woman as Intellect in Renaissance Italy and EnglandSARAH GWYNETH ROSS

An experiment in collective biography and intellectual history, The Birth of Femi-nism focuses on nineteen learned women from the middle ranks of society who rose to prominence in theworld of Italian and English letters between 1400 and 1680. Drawing both on archival material—wills, letters,and manuscript compositions—and on printed writings, Ross gives us an unprecedented sense of educatedearly modern women’s lives.

“Sarah Ross redraws our maps of Renaissance society and culture in this erudite and fascinating book. Sherecreates a lost world of women humanists, who found new meanings in ancient texts and new literary pos-sibilities in ancient models. She rediscovers, behind them, another forgotten world, one of generousfathers—real and fictive—who helped women learn, write, and make their way into the public world. Andthrough deft close readings of a wide range of texts, she proves that both in Italy and in England, intellec-tual 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







THECONSOLATION OF

PHILOSOPHY

BOETHIUS

Translated byDavid R. SlavittIntroduction bySeth Lerer

★ A Books & CultureBook of the Year

“This is a sensitive andreadable translation,whose poetic meritsplace it beyond othertranslations ofBoethius’s great text.”—HENRY TAYLOR

“A remarkable transla-tion of one of the greatmasterpieces of philo-sophical literature.”—GAIL HOLST-

WARHAFT,CORNELLUNIVERSITY

“This is a beautifullymade little book that I have taken with me on anumber of trips, partly just for the pleasure ofholding it.”

—JOHN WILSON, BOOKS & CULTURE


DEMONS AND DANCERS

Performance in Late AntiquityRUTH WEBB

“Outstanding.”—DENIS FEENEY, TIMESLITERARY SUPPLEMENT

“Pantomime—dances whichtold stories—fired the imagina-tion of the ancient world. In theRoman Empire, dancers weresuperstar entertainers whowildly excited the audience withtheir brilliantly expressive andworryingly sexy performances.And as the Roman Empiremoved into the Christian Em-pire, the full force of moral dis-approval was brought to bear onthe physical display of the danc-ing body.Demons and Dancersis a superb introduction to thisextraordinary story.”

—SIMON GOLDHILL,AUTHOR OF JERUSALEM

2009 11 halftones 318 pp.Cloth $45.00 / £33.95ISBN 978-0-674-03192-0

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CICERO, XVA, ORATIONS

Philippics 1-6EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY D. R.SHACKLETON BAILEY

Revised by John T. Ramsey and Gesine Manuwald

This Loeb Classical Library edition of the Philippicsreplaces the previous translation byWalter C. A.Ker.

Cicero (Marcus Tullius, 106–43 BCE), Roman advo-cate, orator, politician, poet, and philosopher, aboutwhom we know more than we do of any otherRoman, lived through the stirring era that saw therise, dictatorship, and death of Julius Caesar in atottering republic. In Cicero’s political speeches andin his correspondence we see the excitement, ten-sion and intrigue of politics and the part he playedin the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches,58 survive (a few incompletely), 29 of which are ad-dressed to the Roman people or Senate, the rest tojurors. In the fourteenth century, Petrarch and otherItalian humanists discovered manuscripts contain-ing more than 900 letters, of which more than 800were written by Cicero and nearly 100 by others tohim. This correspondence affords a revelation of theman, all the more striking because most of the let-ters were not intended for publication. Six works onrhetorical subjects survive intact and another infragments. Seven major philosophical works are ex-tant in part or in whole, and there are a number ofshorter compositions either preserved or known bytitle 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

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CICERO, XVB, ORATIONS

Philippics 7-14EDITED AND TRANSLATED BYD. R. SHACKLETON BAILEY

Revised by John T. Ramsey andGesine Manuwald

Loeb Classical Library 2010 Index 384 pp.Cloth $24.00 / £15.95 ISBN 978-0-674-99635-9

Humanist Educational TreatisesTranslated by Craig W. KallendorfThe I Tatti Renaissance Library 2008 224 pp.Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03087-9

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InvectivesFrancesco PetrarcaTranslated 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 ConstantineLorenzo VallaTranslated 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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WORRYING ABOUT CHINA

The Language of Chinese Critical InquiryGLORIA DAVIES

“Davies persuasively argues that by writing inthe idiolects of Derrida, Lacan, Habermas, andJameson (or Rorty, Hayek, Popper), Chinesehigher social and humanistic criticism replacesthose theorists’ skepticism and pluralism with‘magisterial,’ even Confucian, epistemologicaland moralistic certainty—variously to strengthenChina’s authoritarian state, recuperate China’sancient transnational cultural imperium, or inte-grate China into ‘liberal’ global capitalism.”

—J. C. KINKLEY, CHOICE

“A crucial source of information and insight foranyone who is interested in coming to grips withthe enormously complex discourses that havehelped shape post-Mao Chinese intellectual cul-ture and consciousness.”

—JIWEI CI, UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG


BEIJING TIME

MICHAEL DUTTON, HSIU-JU STACY LO, ANDDONG DONG WU

“Deeply informed by urban theory and exhibitingan assured feel for the city, Beijing Time paints avivid picture of Beijing’s tumultuous transforma-tions.”

—GYAN PRAKASH,PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

“A fascinating cultural mapping of modern Bei-jing. Here are ring roads that resemble ‘successivereworkings of the old city wall’; here is the districtfor ‘saw-gash CDs’ (imperfect discs dumped bywestern record labels on the Chinese market),where the young bob for Sex Pistols albums…The book is a useful street-level corrective to re-ceived ideas. In particular, its interviews with citi-zens—an ex-policeman, scavengers in plastic-bagmountains, luminaries of the art scene, cafe own-ers who dream of being film directors, membersof a kind of granny Neighborhood Watchscheme—are wonderfully humane.”

—STEVEN POOLE, THE GUARDIAN

2010; 2008 73 halftones, 4 maps 288 pp.Cloth $26.95 / £19.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02789-3Paper $17.95 / £13.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04734-1

CITY BETWEEN

WORLDS

My Hong KongLEO OU-FAN LEE

“City BetweenWorlds bal-ances probing intellectualanalysis, fierce criticism,and gentle warmth, allimbued with the frustratedlove any city dweller willimmediately recognize asthe elusive grasp to define where one lives.”

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“[Lee’s] observations, illuminated by his insightfulreadings of Shanghai as well as his experiences atthe Chinese University of Hong Kong, also drawintelligent connections between society and urbanform and literature and film, including both localand foreign observers…An extremely well-illus-trated volume.”

—G. W. MCDONOGH, CHOICE

Belknap2010; 2008 64 color illus., 24 halftones, 4 maps 332 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02701-5Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04689-4

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Transpacific ImaginationsHistory, Literature, Counterpoetics

Yunte Huang2008 7 halftones, 4 line illus. 202 pp.Cloth $37.00 / £27.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02637-7

Brand New ChinaAdvertising, Media, and Commercial Culture

Jing Wang2010; 2008 12 halftones, 8 tables 432 pp.Cloth $28.95 / £21.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02680-3Paper $18.95 / £14.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04708-2

Olympic DreamsChina and Sports, 1895-2008

Xu GuoqiForeword by William C. Kirby


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EMPIRE OF TEXTS IN MOTION

Chinese, Korean, and TaiwaneseTransculturations of Japanese LiteratureKAREN LAURA THORNBER

Drawing extensively on vernacular sources inJapanese, Chinese, and Korean, this book ex-plores how colonial and semicolonial writersdiscussed, adapted, translated, and recast thou-sands of Japanese creative works, both affirm-ing and challenging Japan’s cultural authority.Such efforts not only blurred distinctionsamong resistance, acquiescence, and collabora-

tion 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 theWest, but instead must be seen in constant interaction through-out the Japanese empire and beyond.

Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series, Asia Center2009 1 halftone 550 pp. Cloth $59.95 / £44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03625-3

CRITICAL AESTHETICS

Kobayashi Hideo, Modernity, andWartime JapanJAMES DORSEY

This study revolves around the career of Kobayashi Hideo (1902–1983), one of the seminal figures inthe history of modern Japanese literary criticism, whose interpretive vision was forged amidst the cul-tural and ideological crises that dominated intellectual discourse between the 1920s and the 1940s.

Treating Kobayashi’s influential works and the historical context in which they are rooted, James Dorseytraces the emergence of a modern critical consciousness in conversation with such concerns as the natureof materiality in capitalist culture, the relationship of narrative to subjec-tivity, 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

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THE TRIUMPHOF MUSIC

The Rise of Composers,Musicians and Their ArtTIM BLANNING

“This is a provocative andamusing book. Blanningdescribes not the triumph ofgoodmusic but the develop-ment of Western music gener-ally, from an aristocratic courtfrill to a powerful social force.”—THE ATLANTIC

“Very entertaining…[Blanning] makes [his case]with grace, humor and a mountain of fascinatingdetail.”

—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

INSIDEBEETHOVEN’SQUARTETS

History,Performance,InterpretationLEWIS LOCKWOOD AND THEJUILLIARD STRING QUARTET

★ Independent Publisher Book Awards,Performing Arts

“Beethoven’s string quartets have been baffling andenchanting academics, musicians, and listeners foralmost two centuries. This in-depth guide to threeof them combines the scholarship of Lewis Lock-wood, one of the world’s leading authorities onBeethoven, with the insights and experiences ofthe Juilliard String Quartet, brilliant and knowl-edgeable exponents of his work.”


“This melding of scholarship and performance iscreative, imaginative, and unique, especially sincethe book includes a performance CD and anno-tated scores by the Juilliard String Quartet.”

—M. N.-H. CHENG, CHOICE

2008 82 pages musical scores, 14 music examples, CD304 pp.Cloth / CD: $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-02809-8










The Harvard Dictionary of MusicEdited by Don Michael RandelBelknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library2003 222 line illus., 250 music examples 1008 pp.Cloth $50.00 / £37.95 ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2

The Harvard Concise Dictionary ofMusic and MusiciansEdited by Don Michael RandelBelknap / Harvard University Press Reference Library2002; 1999 150 line illus. and musical examples 768 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00084-1Paper $23.50 / £17.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00978-3

SPACE, TIME AND ARCHITECTURE

The Growth of a New Tradition, Fifth Revised andEnlarged EditionSIGFRIED GIEDION

“This book is an important collection of historicaland critical surveys and a brilliant study of thetrends and developments of the modern scenewith its historical background and true signifi-cance. For the general reader interested in the pastand its relation to our present, and the specialist inarchitecture preoccupied with its facets of change,the author has succeeded in presenting a consis-tently developing process and a clear, concisepicture.”

—EDWARD LAROCQUE TINKER,NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures2009; 1967 550 halftones 960 pp.Paper $39.95 / £29.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03047-3

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SELLING SOUNDS

The Commercial Revolution in American MusicDAVID SUISMAN

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“A fascinating, well-written, richly detailed storyof how music became a commodity in America…[Suisman’s] scholarship is amazingly wide-ranging.”

—WILLIAM F. GAVIN, WASHINGTON TIMES

“This [is a] really wonderful book. It warrants re-peated readings and deep consideration…Well-researched and beautifully documented, repletewith beautiful illustrations and photographs, thisbook belongs on the shelf of any reader seriousabout popular music and the music industry andgiven the impact of that industry on our dailylives, that really ought to be all of us.”

—CHADWICK JENKINS, POPMATTERS.COM

“Though the story Suisman tells is a broadlyfamiliar one, he has assembled valuable remindersof something many would rather ignore; namely,the extent to which the music we hear, and howwe hear it, has less to do with our personal prefer-ences than with what a large, well-organized sectorof business makes available to us. Most listeners—and, I’d wager, artists—would surely prefer to seetheir musical experiences as a respite from capital-ism, not a function of it. Still, it would be hard todeny that phenomena from the selling of youthculture back to itself in the form of rock and roll tothe rise of ringtones as a tiny, publicly audiblelifestyle indicator (and a fresh income stream) arerooted in structures and processes whose originsSuisman describes.”

—FRANKLIN BRUNO,LOS ANGELES TIMES BLOG


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New

NO SMALL MATTER

Science on the NanoscaleFELICE C. FRANKEL ANDGEORGE M. WHITESIDES

★ Felice C. Frankel is Winner of the PhotographicSociety of America’s Progress Medal

★ George M. Whitesides is Winner of the DreyfusPrize in the Chemical Sciences

This book uses dazzling images and evocative de-scriptions to reveal the virtually invisible realitiesand possibilities of nanoscience.

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—KURT ANDERSEN, AUTHOR OF HEYDAY

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—PAOLA ANTONELLI,THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART

Belknap 2009 100 color illus. 192 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03566-9

AUDUBON: EARLY DRAWINGS

JOHN JAMES AUDUBON

Introduction by Richard RhodesScientific Commentary by Scott V. EdwardsForeword by Leslie A. Morris

★ Printing Industries of New England Award

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—JONATHANROSEN,NEW YORKTIMESBOOKREVIEW

Belknap 2008116 color illus.288 pp.Cloth $125.00 /£84.95 ISBN978-0-674-03102-9

HUMAN DOCUMENTS

Eight PhotographersCONCEIVED BY ROBERT GARDNER

Edited by Charles Warren

Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner,Kevin Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, ChristopherJames, Jane Tuckerman, Susan Meiselas, andAlex Webb

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Peabody Museum 2009 96 quadtones 128 pp.Cloth $50.00 / £37.95 ISBN 978-0-87365-857-7

EGG & NEST

ROSAMOND PURCELL, LINNEA S. HALL, ANDRENÉ CORADO

Introduction by Bernd Heinrich

★ A Slate Best Book of the Year

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“Anyone who loves birds, nature, or simply exqui-site colors and shapes will find this compendium arevelation. Rosamond Purcell’s sumptuous photo-graphs are accompanied by a fascinating history ofman’s obsession with ornithology.”

—MARTHA STEWART LIVING

Belknap 2008 183 color illus. 232 pp.Cloth $39.95 / £25.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03172-2

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Walter BenjaminSelectedWritings, Volume 2,part 1, 1927-1930Translated by RodneyLivingstone and Others

Edited by Michael W.Jennings, Howard Eiland,and Gary Smith

Belknap 20058 halftones 480 pp.Paper $22.00 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-01588-3

Walter BenjaminSelectedWritings, Volume 2,part 2, 1931-1934Translated by RodneyLivingstone and others

Edited by Michael W.Jennings, Howard Eiland,and Gary Smith


Walter BenjaminSelectedWritingsVolume 3, 1935-1938Translated by EdmundJephcott, Howard Eiland,and Others

Edited by Howard Eilandand Michael W. Jennings


Walter BenjaminSelectedWritings, Volume 4,1938–1940

Walter BenjaminEdited by Howard Eilandand Michael W. Jennings


On HashishWalter BenjaminTranslated byHoward Eiland andOthers

Belknap 20064 line illus. 208 pp.Paper $17.00 / £12.95ISBN 978-0-674-02221-8

The Writer ofModern LifeEssays on CharlesBaudelaire

Walter BenjaminEdited byMichael W. Jennings

Translated by HowardEiland, Edmund Jephcott,Rodney Livingstone, andHarry Zohn

Belknap 2006 320 pp.Paper $18.00 / £13.95ISBN 978-0-674-02287-4

Berlin Childhoodaround 1900Walter BenjaminTranslated byHoward Eiland


Walter BenjaminSelectedWritings, Volume 1,1913-1926

Walter BenjaminEdited by Marcus Bullockand Michael W. Jennings


The Arcades ProjectWalter BenjaminEdited by Roy Tiedemann

Translated by Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin

Belknap 2002; 1999 42 halftones 1088 pp.Cloth $60.00 / £44.95 ISBN 978-0-674-04326-8Paper $29.50 / £21.95 ISBN 978-0-674-00802-1



















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New

THE RED BADGEOF COURAGE

STEPHEN CRANE

Edited by Paul Sorrentino

Paul Sorrentino introduces RedBadge to a new generation of read-ers for a fuller appreciation of thenovel and its effects.


New

INCIDENTS IN THE

LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL

Written by Herself, with “A TrueTale of Slavery” by John S. JacobsHARRIET A. JACOBS

Edited by Jean Fagan YellinContributions by John S. Jacobs

This enlarged edition of the mostsignificant and celebrated slave nar-rative completes the Jacobs familysaga, surely one of the most memo-rable in all of American history.

Belknap 2009 13 halftones,1 line illus., 2 maps 496 pp.Paper $16.95 / £12.95ISBN 978-0-674-03583-6

New

NARRATIVE OF

THE LIFE OF

FREDERICK DOUGLASS

An American Slave, Written byHimselfFREDERICK DOUGLASS

Introduction by Robert B. Stepto

Robert Stepto re-examines the ex-traordinary life and achievement ofa man who escaped from slavery tobecome a leading abolitionist andone of our most important writers.


New

UNCLE TOM’S CABIN

Or, Life Among the LowlyHARRIET BEECHER STOWE

Introduction by David Bromwich

This is easily the most controversialantislavery novel written in antebel-lum America, and one of the best-selling books of the nineteenthcentury.


New

THE SCARLET LETTER

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Introduction byMichael J. Colacurcio

Hawthorne’s greatest romance, TheScarlet Letter, is often simplisticallyseen as a timeless tale of desire, sin,and redemption. In his introduc-tion, Michael J. Colacurcio arguesthat The Scarlet Letter is also a seri-ous historical novel.


New

THE HOUSE OF THE

SEVEN GABLES

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Introduction by Denis Donoghue

Denis Donoghue instructs thereader in a fresh appreciation of thenovel.















Naming andNecessitySaul A. Kripke1982; 1980 192 pp.Cloth $31.50 / COBEISBN 978-0-674-59845-4Paper $24.00 / COBEISBN 978-0-674-59846-1

The SocialConstruction ofWhat?Ian Hacking2000; 1999 272 pp.Cloth $51.50 / £38.95ISBN 978-0-674-81200-0Paper $25.00 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-00412-2


New

JIM CROW, AMERICAN

Selected Songs and PlaysT. D. RICE

Edited by W. T. Lhamon, Jr.

This compact edition of the ear-liest Jim Crow plays and songspresents essential performancesthat assembled backtalk, banter,masquerade, and dance into thediagnostic American style.

Belknap 2009 224 pp.Paper $14.95 / £11.95 ISBN 978-0-674-03593-5

The Clash WithinDemocracy, ReligiousViolence, and India’s Future

Martha C. NussbaumBelknap 2009; 20071 map 432 pp.Cloth $29.95 / £22.95 OIPISBN 978-0-674-02482-3Paper $18.95 / £14.95 OIPISBN 978-0-674-03059-6

Pursuits ofHappinessThe Hollywood Comedy ofRemarriage

Stanley CavellHarvard Film Studies 1984;1981 18 halftones 296 pp.Paper $26.00 / £19.95ISBN 978-0-674-73906-2

Sources of the SelfThe Making of theModern Identity

Charles Taylor

★ Charles Taylor isWinner of theTempleton Prize

1992 624 pp.Paper / COBEEISBN 978-0-674-82426-3

The Ethics ofAuthenticityCharles Taylor

★ Charles Taylor isWinner of theTempleton Prize

1992 160 pp.Cloth $30.50 / £22.95 OCISBN 978-0-674-26863-0

IntentionG. E. M. Anscombe2000 106 pp.Paper $23.50 / £17.95ISBN 978-0-674-00399-6

DistinctionA Social Critique of theJudgement of Taste

Pierre BourdieuTranslated byRichard Nice

1987 20 halftones, 13 lineillus., 55 tables 640 pp.Paper $33.00 / COBEISBN 978-0-674-21277-0

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Lectures on theHistory ofPoliticalPhilosophyJohn RawlsEdited by Samuel Freeman

Belknap 2008; 20073 line illus., 7 tables 496 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-02492-2Paper $21.50 / £15.95ISBN 978-0-674-03063-3

A Theory of JusticeRevised Edition

John RawlsBelknap 199912 line illus. 560 pp.Paper $29.50 / £16.95ISBN 978-0-674-00078-0

Collected PapersJohn RawlsEdited by Samuel Freeman

2001; 1999 1 table 672 pp.Cloth $66.00 / £48.95 OIPISBN 978-0-674-13739-4Paper $33.00 / £24.95ISBN 978-0-674-00569-3

The Law of Peopleswith “The Idea of PublicReason Revisited”

John Rawls2001; 1999 208 pp.Paper $21.50 / £15.95 OISCISBN 978-0-674-00542-6

Lectures on theHistory of MoralPhilosophyJohn Rawls andBarbara Herman2000; 20004 line illus. 414 pp.Cloth $69.00 / £51.95ISBN 978-0-674-00296-8Paper $26.00 / £19.95SBN 978-0-674-00442-9

Justice as FairnessA Restatement

John RawlsEdited by Erin Kelly

Belknap 2001; 20012 line illus. 240 pp.Cloth $63.00 / £46.95ISBN 978-0-674-00510-5Paper $24.50 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-00511-2

Frontiers of JusticeDisability, Nationality,Species Membership

Martha C. Nussbaum

★ David and ElaineSpitz Book Prize,Conference for theStudy of PoliticalThought

Belknap / The Tanner Lectureson Human Values2007; 2006 512 pp.Paper $20.00 / £14.95 ISBN978-0-674-02410-6

















Between Kant andHegelLectures on GermanIdealism

Dieter HenrichEdited by David S. Pacini

2008; 2003 1 chart 384 pp.Cloth $69.00 / £51.95ISBN 978-0-674-00773-4Paper $24.95 / £18.95ISBN 978-0-674-02737-4

The Affirmation ofLifeNietzsche on OvercomingNihilism

Bernard Reginster2009; 2006 336 pp.Cloth $35.00 / £25.95ISBN 978-0-674-02199-0Paper $18.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-03064-0

Seeing RedA Study in Consciousness

Nicholas HumphreyBelknap /Mind/Brain/BehaviorInitiative2009; 2006 26 drawings160 pp.Cloth $19.95 / £14.95ISBN 978-0-674-02179-2Paper $14.95 / £11.95ISBN 978-0-674-03054-1

Reflections onExile and OtherEssaysEdward W. SaidConvergences: Inventories ofthe Present2002; 2001 656 pp.Cloth $36.95 / COBESBN 978-0-674-00302-6Paper $26.50 / COBEISBN 978-0-674-00997-4

Are Women Human?And Other InternationalDialogues

Catharine A.MacKinnonBelknap 2007; 2006432 pp.Paper $21.00 / £15.95ISBN 978-0-674-02555-4

Women’s Lives,Men’s LawsCatharine A.MacKinnonBelknap 2007; 2005576 pp.Paper $21.00 / £15.95ISBN 978-0-674-02406-9

We Who Are DarkThe PhilosophicalFoundations of BlackSolidarity

Tommie Shelby

★ A New York MagazineBest Academic Book

Belknap 2007; 2005336 pp.Paper $18.00 / £13.95ISBN 978-0-674-02571-4

German IdealismThe Struggle againstSubjectivism, 1781–1801

Frederick C. Beiser

★ Napoleonic StudiesLiterary Prize

2008; 2002 752 pp.Cloth $77.00 / £57.95ISBN 978-0-674-00769-7Paper $29.95 / £22.95ISBN 978-0-674-02717-6

A Critique of Postcolonial ReasonToward a History of the Vanishing Present

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak1999; 1999 1 line illus. 464 pp.Paper $29.00 / £21.95 OIP ISBN 978-0-674-17764-2


















Abramson, Minerva’s Owl, 6

Adams, My Dearest Friend, 32

Adams, Quotable Abigail Adams, 24

Andrew, Popular Front Paris…, 23

Anscombe, Intention, 43

Appiah, Experiments in Ethics, 7

Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, 26

Audubon, Early Drawings, 40

Baier, Death and Character, 9

Bauman, Does Ethics Have a Chance…, 8

Beiser, German Idealism, 45

Benjamin, Berlin Childhood…, 41

Benjamin, On Hashish, 41

Benjamin, Arcades Project, 41

Benjamin, Work of Art in the Age…, 15

Benjamin, Writer of Modern Life, 41

Benjamin, Selected Writings, 41

Bernstein, Quantum Leaps, 14

Bigsby, Arthur Miller, 3

Blanning, Triumph of Music, 38

Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy, 36

Bourdieu, Distinction, 43

Boyd, On the Origin of Stories, 19

Brandom, Reason in Philosophy, 11

Canby, Islamic Art in Detail, 34

Cavafy, Canon, 29

Cavell, Pursuits of Happiness, 43

Cicero, Orations, 36

Claussen, Theodor W. Adorno, 15

Cohen, Philosophy, Politics, Democracy, 6

Cohen, Rescuing Justice and Equality, 9

Crane, Red Badge of Courage, 42

Crary, Beyond Moral Judgment, 8

Craughwell, Stealing Lincoln’s Body, 32

Dallapiccola, Indian Art in Detail, 34

Darwall, Second-Person Standpoint, 8

Davidson, Truth and Predication, 13

Davies, Worrying about China, 37

Davis, Anthology of Modern Irish…, 48

De Caro, Naturalism in Question, 11

DeGroot, Sixties Unplugged, 22

Dennis, Licentious Gotham, 30

Diamond, Sexual Fluidity, 23

Dickinson, Herbarium, 29

Dickinson, Poems…, 29

Donne, Songs and Sonets…, 27

Dorsey, Critical Aesthetics, 38

Doueihi, Earthly Paradise, 18

Douglass, Narrative of the Life…, 42

duBois, Out of Athens, 35

Dumm, Loneliness as a Way of Life, 12

Dutton, Beijing Time, 37

Edwards, Artscience, 16

Edwards, Whiff, 16

Emerson, Collected Works…, 26

English, Economy of Prestige, 23

Engstrom, Form of Practical Knowledge, 7

Farr, Gardens of Emily Dickinson, 29

Filelfo, Odes, 27

Finkelstein, Expression and the Inner, 13

Flatley, Affective Mapping, 31

Flesch, Comeuppance, 31

Frankel, No Small Matter, 40

Frost, Collected Prose…, 28

Frost, Notebooks of Robert Frost, 28

Gardner, Human Documents, 40

Gibbard, Thinking How to Live, 11

Giedion, Space, Time and Architecture, 39

Gilroy, Darker than Blue, 5

Gluck, Popular Bohemia, 32

Golumbia, Cultural Logic…, 30

Gooding-Williams, In the Shadow…, 5

Grafton, Christianity and the…, 19

Grafton, Worlds Made by Words, 20

Grahame, Wind in the Willows, 3

Hacking, Social Construction…, 43

Hadot, Veil of Isis, 15

Hamilton, Biography, 25

Hamilton, How To Do Biography, 25

Hampton, Born in Flames, 23

Hardt, Commonwealth, 4

Hardt, Empire, 4

Hawthorne, House of the Seven…, 42

Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, 42

Hellman, When Is Discrimination…, 10

Henrich, Between Kant and Hegel, 45

Herman, Moral Literacy, 11

Huang, Transpacific Imaginations, 37

Humphrey, Seeing Red, 45

Israëls, Sassetta, 33

Jacobs, Incidents in the Life…, 42

Johnson, Persons and Things, 14

Johnson, Selected Writings…, 25

Kraut, What Is Good and Why, 8

Kripke, Naming and Necessity, 43

Kukla, ‘Yo!’ and ‘Lo!’, 12

Kuusela, Struggle against Dogmatism, 16

La Niece, Gold, 33

Lear, Radical Hope, 6

Lee, City Between Worlds, 37

Lloyd, Providence Lost, 11

Lockwood, Inside Beethoven’s…, 38

Love, Feeling Backward, 22

MacKinnon, Are Women Human?, 45

MacKinnon, Women’s Lives, Men’s…, 45

Mallarmé, Divagations, 28

Marcus, New Literary History…, 2

Marcus, Lipstick Traces, 2

Martin, Samuel Johnson, 25

McDowell, Having the World in View, 13

McDowell, Engaged Intellect, 13

McEwan, Ancient American Art…, 34

McGurl, Program Era, 20

Merriman, Silver, 33

Michaelson, Chinese Art in Detail, 34

Miller, Peculiar Life of Sundays, 18

Morton, Ecology without Nature, 32

Nauta, In Defense of Common Sense, 35

Newfield, Unmaking the Public…, 6

Noland, Agency and Embodiment, 21

Nussbaum, Frontiers of Justice, 44

Nussbaum, Clash Within, 43

O’Malley, What Happened at…, 19

Olender, Race and Erudition, 21

Olender, Languages of Paradise, 33

Opper, Hadrian, 25

Pellizzi, Res, 34

Petrarca, Invectives, 36

Posner, Law and Literature, 21

Purcell, Egg & Nest, 40

Pyne, Voice and Vision, 24

Quine, Confessions of a Confirmed…, 17

Quine, Quine in Dialogue, 17

Quine, Quintessence, 17

Quinney, William Blake on Self…, 27

Randel, Harvard Concise…, 39

Randel, Harvard Dictionary of Music, 39

Rawls, Brief Inquiry…, 4

Rawls, Theory of Justice, 44

Rawls, Collected Papers, 44

Rawls, Justice as Fairness, 44

Rawls, Lectures on the History…, 44

Rawls, Law of Peoples, 44

Reeve, Japanese Art in Detail, 34

Reeve, Love’s Confusions, 16

Reginster, Affirmation of Life, 45

Rice, Jim Crow, American, 43

Richard, Golden Age of the Classics…, 31

Ripstein, Force and Freedom, 7

Rödl, Self-Consciousness, 13

Roe, Her Brilliant Career, 24

Ross, Birth of Feminism, 35

Rubin, Songs of Ourselves, 28

Ruse, Evolution, 14

Said, Reflections on Exile…, 45

Sandel, Case against Perfection, 6

Sannazaro, Latin Poetry, 27

Scanlon, Moral Dimensions, 10

Sellars, In the Space of Reasons, 13

Sen, Idea of Justice, 4

Shelby, We Who Are Dark, 45

Shell, Kant and the Limits of Autonomy, 7

Smith, Is Milton Better than…, 22

Sollors, Ethnic Modernism, 23

Solove, Understanding Privacy, 9

Spivak, Critique of Postcolonial…, 45

Spring, African Art in Detail, 34

Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, 42

Strevens, Depth, 14

Suisman, Selling Sounds, 39

Sundquist, Strangers in the Land, 33

Taylor, Secular Age, 18

Taylor, Sources of the Self, 43

Taylor, Ethics of Authenticity, 43

Terada, Looking Away, 11

Teskey, Delirious Milton, 22

Thompson, Life and Action, 10

Thompson, Mind in Life, 13

Thornber, Empire of Texts in Motion, 38

Thorne, Dialectic of Counter…, 5

Trodd, American Protest Literature, 33

Unger, Self Awakened, 12

Valla, On the Donation…, 36

Vargas Llosa, Wellsprings, 23

Vendler, Coming of Age as a Poet, 29

Vendler, Our Secret Discipline, 29

Vendler, Poets Thinking, 29

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