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BOOKS RECEIVED 511 dimension and not within the confines of an ideologically limited provincialism. Although Heidegger never denied his rootedness in the region he inhabited, his thinking grew to embrace the global problem of technology (dos Gestell) and of what has happened to thinking in general. The last chapter of the book, "Heidegger and Zen Buddhism: A Salute to Keiji Nishitani," represents one of the serious attempts' to engage in an East-West dialogue. Centering mainly on themes in Heidegger's later philosophy, while showing their roots in Being and Time, Dallmayr shows the fundamental affinities between, for example, the emptiness of the jug which does the holding of the liquid ("The Thing") and Buddhist sunyata (emptiness), and between the worlding of the world in the Fourfold and Nishitani's circuminsession. "More than any other Western thinker in the twentieth century, Heidegger is culturally decentered, lodged at the crossroads of East and West, and thus at the site of a possible or impending global dialogue" (2ol). Not only did Heidegger expand the scope of his inquiry beyond any kind of provincialism; he cautiously extended it to address the thought of Asia as well. A quote that Dallmayr gives from Nishitani shows a truly striking affinity between Heidegger and Nishitani, who studied under Heidegger. "Even the very tiniest thing, to the extent that it "is', displays in its act of being the whole web of circuminsessional interpenetration that links all things together. In its being, we might say, the world 'worlds' " (218). JOAN STAMP^UGH Hunter College, CUNY BOOKS RECEIVED Anderson, Thomas C. Satire's Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 1993. Pp. xiv + 2x5. Cloth, $36.95. Paper, $17.95. Armstrong, D. M. A Materialist Theory of the Mind. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. xxiii + 375Paper , $22.5~. Atherton, Catherine. The Stoics on Ambiguity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, Pp. xix + 563. Cloth, $89.95. Aubenque, Pierre. Aristote Politique: l~tudessur la Politique d'Aristote. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1993. Pp. ix + 552-Paper, FF 498. Babich, Babette E. Nietzaehe's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 35o. Board, $16.95. Barker, Philip. Michel Foucault: Subversions of the Subject. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993- PP23 ~. Cloth, $39.95Bar On, Bat-Am_i,editor. Engendering Origins: Critical Feminist Readings in Plato and Aristotle. Albany : State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xviii + 247. Board, $44.5o. Paper, $14.95. ' An earlier, significant attempt can be found in the dialogue between Shin'ichi Hisamatsu and Paul Tillich, published in three volumes of The Eastern Buddhist. Also see Heidegger and Asian Thought, ed. Graham Parkes (Honolulu, 1987). 512 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 3~:3 JULY 1994 Bar On, Bat-Ami, editor. Modern Engendering: Cri~LMFeminist Readings in Modern Western Philosophy . Albany: State Universityof New York Press, 1994. PP. xviii + 280. Board, $16-95. Benhabib, Seyla,Wolfgang Bonb, and John McGole, editors. On Max Horkheimer: New Perspectives. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, a993- PP. vi + 432. Cloth, $40.00. Benjamin, Andrew. The Plural Event: Descartes,Hegel, Heidegger. New York: Routledge, 1993. Pp. viii + 21I. Paper, $17.95Bod ~iis, Richard. The PoEtical Dimensions of Aristotle's Ethics. Translated by Jan Edward Garrett. Albany: State Universityof New York Press, 1993. Pp. xiv + 250. Board, $19.95. B6hmer, Otto A. Sternstunden de,"Philosophic: Schlfiaselerlebnissegrosser Denker yon Augustinus bin Popper. M~nchen: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1994. Pp. 2x4. Paper, DM 19.8o. Brunt, P. A. Studies in GreekHistory and Thought. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Pp. viii + 411. Cloth, $79.00. Burkhardt, Bernd. Hegels "Wissensehaft der Logik" ira Spannungsfeld der Kritik. Zfirich: Georg Olms Verlag, 1993. Pp. xiii +.561. Paper, DM 128. Byrd, Don. The Poetics o/the Common Knowledge. Albany: State Universityof New York Press, 1994Pp . xii + 404. Board, $49.5o. Paper, $16.95. Caputo, John D. Demythologizing Heideggtr. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1993. Pp. xiii + 234. Cloth, $29.95. Paper, $x4.95. Carraud, Vincent. Pascal et l~ philosophic. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 199~. Pp. 47L Paper, FF 280. Cartledge, Paul. The Greeks: A Portrait of Se~fand Others...

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