Mark Jarzombek’s The Psychologizing of Modernity is in many respects a timely book. Drawing upon an impressive range of readings undertaken in 1994 at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Jarzombek brings together parts of several of his earlier writings for the journal Assemblage, most significantly his 1994 essay, “De-Scribing the Language of Looking: Woelfflin and the History of Aesthetic Experientialism.” What is new is that the earlier question of “how would I write...