Books Received

Almond, Philip C. Demonic Possession and Exorcism in Early Modern England: Contemporary Texts and their Cultural Contexts. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. vii, 405p., bibl., index. $85. Nine case studies.

Audier, Serge. Tocqueville Retrouvé: Genèse et Enjeux du Renouveau Tocquevillien Français. Paris: Vrin, 2004. 319p. E25.00. Interpretations for the present.

Badiou, Alain. Theoretical Writings. Ed. and tr. by Ray Brassier and Alberto Toscano. New York: Continuum, 2004. xv, 256p., index. Translated selections.

Baldi, Marialuisa, and Guido Canziani, eds. Cardano e la Tradizione dei Saperi. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2003. 635p., index. E39.50. Twenty-three essays (with documents) presented at an International Conference in Milan on Cardano in 2002.

Barros, Carlos, and Lawrence McCrank, eds. History Under Debate: International Reflections on the Discipline. Binghamton, N.Y.: The Haworth P, 2004. xviii, 297p., index. International conversation on the profession.

Bashier, Salman H. Ibn al-^cArabi's Barzakh: The Concept of the Limit and the Relationship between God and the World. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004. xii, 206p., bib., index. $45. Speculations of 13th-century thinker.

Baumann, Peter, and Monika Betzler, eds. Practical Conflicts: New Philosophical Essays. New York: Cambridge UP, 2004. vii, 344p., index. $70. Fourteen contributions.

Bayle, Pierre. Correspondance de Pierre Bayle. Tome III: janvier 1678-fin 1683, Lettres 147-241. New York: Oxford UP, 2004. xxii, 514p., ill., index. $175. Critical edition, annotated.

Benbassa, Esther, and Jean-Christophe Attias. The Jew and the Other. Tr. by G. M. Goshgarian. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2004. xiv, 157p., bibl. Translation of Le Juif et l'autre (2002)

Berkovitz, Jay R. Rites and Passages: The Beginnings of Modern Jewish Culture in France, 1650-1860. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004. viii, 333p., bibl., index. $49.95. From subjection to citizenship and emancipation.

Bisaha, Nancy. Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2004. 309p., bibl., index. Humanists on the Crusade, Byzantium, and the Turkish empire.

Bloch, Matthias, and Burkhard Mojsisch, eds. Potentiale des menschlichen Geistes: Freiheit und Kreativität. Praktische Aspekte der Philosophie Marsilio Ficinos (1433-1499). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003. 274p., index. E68,00. Nine contributions.

Blum, Paul Richard. Philosophieren in der Renaissance. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2004. 262p., bibl., index. Scholarly survey.

Brimley, Matthew. Citizenship, Community, and the Church of England: Liberal Anglican Theories of the State between the Wars (Oxford Historical Monographs). New York: Oxford UP, 2004. viii, 257p., bibl., index. Anglican Church's centrality to English political thought during the interwar period.

Brink, David O. Perfectionism and the Common Good: Themes in the Philosophy of T. H. Green. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004. xiv, 139p., bibl. essay, index. Commentary on a text of British idealism.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. New York: Columbia UP, 2004. xiii, 181p., index. Back to the old story.

Browning, Gary K. Rethinking R. G. Collingwood: Philosophy, Politics, and the Unity of Theory and Practice. New York: Palgrave P, 2004. vii, 213p., bibl., index. $65. Hegelian background.

Burkert, Walter. Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2004. 178p., index. $22.95. Translation from Italian of four lectures (1996).

Capeilleres, Fabien. Kant Philosophe Newtonien: Figures de l'idéal de scientificité en métaphysique I. Paris: Les Editions du Cerf, 2004. 356p., bibl. E40.00. Kant and the science-model.

Cardano, Girolamo. De Libris Propriis: The Editions of 1544, 1550, 1557, 1562, with Supplementary Material. Ed. by Ian Maclean. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004. 400p., index. E28.00. Critical annotated edition.

Cardano, Girolamo. De Subtilitate: Tomo I, Libri I- VII. Ed. by Elio Nenci. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2004. 720p., index. E45.00. Critical annotated edition.

Carroll, John W. Readings on Laws of Nature. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 2004. viii, 284p., bibl., index. $26.95. Twelve contributions.

Castrucci, Emanuele. Convenzione, forma, potenza: Scritti di storia delle idee e di filosofia giuridico-politica. 2 vols. (Università degli Studi di Siena Facoltà di Giurisprudenza Collana di Studi "Pietro Rossi" Nuova Serie, vol. xix). Milan: Giuffrè Editore, 2003...