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Journal of the History of Ideas 67.4 (2006) 735-742

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Addis, Mark. Wittgenstein: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum, 2006. vii, 167p., bibl., index, $19.95. Introduction to Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and Philosophical Investigations.

Anderson, Douglas R. Philosophy Americana: Making Philosophy at Home in American Culture. New York: Fordham UP, 2006. xi, 294p., bibl., index, $24. Pragmatism in popular music and literature.

Andrew, Edward G. Patrons of Enlightenment. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2006. ix, 284p., bibl., index, $55. Independence of thought in the face of expectations from financial supporters in Scotland, England, and France.

Becker, Peter, and Richard F. Wetzell, eds. Criminals and Their Scientists: The History of Criminology in International Perspective. New York: Cambridge UP and Washington, D.C.: German Historical Institute, 2006. xiii, 492p., index, $85. Twenty-one essays on the practices of Cesare Lombroso and other moral statisticians.

Beiser, Frederick. Hegel. New York: Routledge, 2006. xx, 353p., bibl., index. Comprehensive topical guide for undergraduates.

Benjamin, Andrew, ed. Walter Benjamin and History. New York: Continuum, 2005. vii, 260p., index, $39.95. Thirteen essays addressing the fragmentary Theses on the Philosophy of History.

Benjamin, Walter. Selected Writings: Vol. 3, 1935–1938. Ed. Howard Eiland and Michael W. Jennings. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap P of Harvard UP, 2002. vii, 462p., ill., index, $18.95. Twenty-seven essays, letters, and diary entries.

Bentley, Michael. Modernizing England's Past: English Historiography in the Age of Modernism 1870–1970. New York: Cambridge UP, 2005. viii, 245p., bibl., index, $29.99. Empirical studies versus narrative art, centered on Lewis Namier and Herbert Butterfield.

Berio, Luciano. Remembering the Future. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2006. x, 141p., $24.95. Six lectures on music by the composer.

Berkowitz, Roger. The Gift of Science: Leibniz and the Modern Legal Tradition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2005. viii, 214p., index. Leibniz's Systema Iuris, the Allgemeine Landrecht, and the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch.

Blackburn, Simon. Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. viii, 407p., $45. 3,000 entries from Aristotle to Zen.

Botting, Eileen Hunt. Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke, and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family. Albany: State U of New York P, 2006. viii, 257p., bibl., index, $65. The egalitarian family as an Enlightenment legacy.

Bronner, Stephen Eric. Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement. New York: Columbia UP, 2006. xv, 181p., index, [End Page 735] $19. Reasserts the modernist interpretation of Enlightenment toleration and cosmopolitanism.

Bynum, W. F. et al. The Western Medical Tradition, 1800 to 2000. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. xiii, 614p., bibl., ill., index, $29.99. The invention of a Euro-American tradition and its globalization after World War II.

Callergård, Robert. An Essay on Thomas Reid's Philosophy of Science. Doctoral Thesis in Theoretical Philosophy. Stockholm: Stockholm University, 2006. 164p. Rules of reasoning in Newtonian physics.

Clarke, Desmond M. Descartes: A Biography. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. xi, 507p., apps., bibl., index. Thorough treatment covering D's interest in theology, philosophy, and the sciences.

Clemens, Justin, and Russell Grigg, eds. Reflections on Seminar XVII: Jacques Lacan and the Other Side of Psychoanalysis. Durham, N. C.: Duke UP, 2006. viii, 331p., index, $23.95. Sixteen essays on the place of psychoanalytic knowledge in the post-1968 university.

Cohrs, Patrick O. The Unfinished Peace after World War I: America, Britain and the Stabilization of Europe 1919–1932. New York: Cambridge UP, 2006. xiv, 693p., bibl., index, $95. The 1920s attempt to integrate Germany into a transatlantic peace system, prefiguring the more durable system built after 1945.

Collins, Jeffrey R. The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2005. xii, 313p., bibl., index. Hobbes as royalist and Cromwellian revolutionary.

Corey, Elizabeth Campbell. Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics. Columbia: U of Missouri P, 2006. xi, 253p., bibl., index, $34.95. The late British political philosopher as Augustinian observer of the human condition.

Cox, Gary. Sartre: A Guide for the Perplexed. New York: Continuum, 2006. xiii, 178p., bibl., index, $19.95. Introduction to Being and Nothingness.

Crouter, Richard. Friedrich Schleiermacher: Between Enlightenment andRomanticism. New York: Cambridge...

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