Intellectual History Notes

"The history of political philosophy," bookforum, May, has a roundup of recent reviews in western political thought.

Ron Rosenbaum,"The Double Falsehood of Double Falsehood," Slate, 13 May, is critical of the decision by editors of the new Arden Shakespeare to include Double Falsehood in the canon.

Samuel Moyn,"Mind the Enlightenment," The Nation, 12 May, reviews Jonathan Israel's A Revolution of the Mind: Radical Enlightenment and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Democracy and Dan Edelstein's The Terror of Natural Right: Republicanism, the Cult of Nature, and the French Revolution.

Paula Findlen,"The Enhancement of the Senses," The Nation, 12 May, reviews Richard Holmes's The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science.

Richard C. Lewontin,"Not So Natural Selection," NYRB, 27 May, reviews Jerry Fodor's and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini's What Darwin Got Wrong.

Nathan Heller,"Nathanael West's Secret," Slate, 13 May, reviews Marion Meade's Lonelyhearts: The Screwball World of Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney.