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Journal of the History of Ideas 65.1 (2004) 161-169


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Abbey, Ruth, ed. Charles Taylor (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus). New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. xi., 220p., index. Eight essays.

Aronson, Ronald. Camus & Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended It. Chicago, Ill.: U of Chicago P, 2004. x., 291p., index. The story of the "twentieth century's most famous friendship."

Atkins, Gary L. Gay Seattle: Stories of Exile and Belonging. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2003. ix, 451p., bibl., index. After the criminalization of homosexuality.

Augst, Thomas. The Clerk's Tale: Young Men and Moral Life in Nineteenth-Century America. Chicago, Ill.: U of Chicago P, 2003. xii., 321p., bibl., index. White-collar in nineteenth-century America.

Ayers, Edward. In the Presence of Mine Enemies: War in the Heart of America, 1859-1863. New York: W. W. Norton, 2003. xxi, 471p., ill., index. Ground level view in the Great Valley.

Bailey, Gauvin Alexander. Between Renaissance and Baroque: Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2003. xi, 406p., bibl., ill., index. Paintings and stuccos of early Jesuit foundations.

Baldwin, Thomas, ed. The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1870-1945. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. xiii, 959p., bibl., index, $140. Over 60 commissioned essays on the philosophical trends of the period, including German neo-Kantianism, American Pragmatism, and British Idealism.

Barteleit, Sebastian. Toleranz und Irenik: Politisch-Religiöse Grenzsetzungen im England der 1650er Jahre (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für Europäische Geschichte Mainz, Band 197, Heinz Duchhardt, ed.). Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2003. ix, 300p., bibl., index.

Bayne, Steven M. Kant on Causation: On the Fivefold Routes to the Principles of Causation. Albany, NY: State U of New York P, 2004. xv., 174p., bibl., index. Nature of Kant's causal principle.

Beiser, Frederick C. The Romantic Imperative: The Concept of Early German Romanticism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003. xiii., 243p., bibl., index. Philosophical interpretation.

Bek, Lise. Reality in the Mirror of Art. Gylling, Denmark: Aarhus UP, 2004. Relation between conceptions of reality and modes of vision.

Bideaux, Michel, and Marie-Madeleine Fragonard, eds. Les Échanges entre les universités européennes à la renaissance. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2003. 403p., index. Twenty-four papers from a May 2002 colloquium of the Société Française d'Etude du XVIe siècle and l'Association Renaissance-Humanisme-Réforme. [End Page 161]

Biondi, Carminella. La Francia a Parma nel secondo settecento (Heuresis III, ed. Luciano Formisano). Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice Bologna, 2003. 195p., bibl., index. Parma and the Republic of Letters during the second half of the eighteenth century.

Brancaforte, Elio. Visions of Persia: Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003. xxiv., 238p., bibl., index. German baroque author in search of silk.

Broughton, Janet. Descartes's Method of Doubt. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2002. xv, 217p., bibl., index. A reading of Descartes's first three meditations.

Brown, Candy Gunther. The Word in the World: Evangelical Writing, Publishing, and Reading in America, 1789-1880. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2004. xiv., 336p., bibl.,index. The world of Protestant print.

Burns, Susan L. Before the Nation: Kokugaku and the Imagining of Community in Early Modern Japan. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2004. x., 282p., bibl., index, $84.95. Pre-nationalism.

Capaldi, Nicholas. John Stuart Mill: A Biography. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. xx., 436p., bibl., index. Intellectual biography.

Chazan, Robert. Fashioning Jewish Identity in Medieval Western Christendom. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. xv., 379p., bibl., index. Jewish polemical writings.

Cuneo, Terence, and René van Woudenberg, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Reid. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. xvii, 369p., bibl., index, $70.Thirteen chapters.

Curran, Kathleen. The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 2003. xxvii, 364p., bibl., ill., index. Rundbogenstil in Germany, England, and America.

Daston, Lorraine, and Fernando Vidal, eds. The Moral Authority of Nature. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2004. vii, 519p., index, $26. Eighteen scholarly papers.

Davidson, Arnold I. The Emergence of Sexuality: Historical Epistemology and the Formation of Concepts. Cambridge...

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