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BOOK REVIEWS 633 nature is seen as the work of (masculine) civilization, the implications of her claims will be fully appreciated. (234) I have not done justice to the scope of Harth's book. In particular, I barely engage the discourse of postmodern culture critique in which Harth sets her study. I do not, in fact, think she establishes her claim that there was a historical moment (with Elizabeth and some others) when a feminist alternative to (masculine) science was visible. Harth's line of sight gets jerked about by her feminist agenda, but I still recommend her book to anyone interested in the origins of modern science and philosophy, or, if you will, in "how the totalizing aspect of the Enlightenment lent itself to coercive universalization" 023)RICHARD A. WATSO~ Washington University Patricia Easton, Thomas M. Lennon, and Gregor Sebba. BibliographiaMalebranchiana: A Critical Guide to the Malebranche Literature into x989. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1992. Pp. xxiii + 189. Cloth, $24-95. The publication of this well-crafted and meticulously researched bibliography is indeed timely. The past two decades have seen a great increase both in direct research on Nicolas Malebranche and in the amount of attention paid to him by those working on other figures, such as Descartes and Leibniz. Much of this work has been facilitated by the completion in 1984 of the Oeuvres complktesdeMalebranche(Paris: J. Vrin) under the direction of Andr6 Robinet. The task is now made even easier by the appearance of this volume. The compilation was begun by Sebba in connection with his work on the Critical BibliographyofFrenchLiterature (x96 x); the job of updating and completing the "preliminary bibliography" was assumed by Lennon and, later, Easton. The editors describe their goal as "to produce a complete critical bibliography of Malebranche" that "will be of use to anyone working on Malebranche." Not only have they succeeded admirably in their stated goal, but I venture to say that they have surpassed it insofar as they have produced a bibliography that even those working on figures other than Malebranche 9will find useful. The bibliography is divided into two main sections: works by Malebranche and works on Malebranche. The first section is subdivided into six parts: editions of his collected works, selections, individual works, translations (into various languages), correspondence (organized by correspondent), and "controversies." This final part is a most useful guide, as it organizes the items according to eight identifiable controversies in which Malebranche was engaged: with Foucher, Le Valois, Arnauld, Leibniz, R6gis, Lamy, the Jesuits, and Boursier. The entries on Arnauld, for example, include not just Arnauld's and Malebranche's writings, but also the significant contributions to the debate by Pierre Bayle. The second section of the bibliography is divided into three parts: bibliographies, 634 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 3 1:4 OCTOBER 1993 biographies, and studies. The part on studies is further subdivided into two categories. The first category, "Malebranche Criticism: I_~cke to Maine de Biran," is a catalogue of critical writings on Malebranche's philosophy by his contemporaries and somewhat later figures (Locke, Norris, Buffier, F~nelon, Fontenelle, Montesquieu, and Voltaire, among others). The second category, "The Secondary Literature," comprises both general and specific studies on Malebranche, and works on thinkers, movements, and concepts that would be of interest and value to anyone engaged in Malebranche studies (e.g., books and.articles on Leibniz, Arnauld, Descartes, scholasticism, St. Augustine, Jansenism, the Oratory, Berkeley, Pascal, theories of ideas, Spinoza, occasionalism, and SO on). The organization of this bibliography is exemplary. The editors have done a lot of work for us. I particularly like the separate sections on Malebranche's numerous controversies and his even more numerous critics--it makes it easy to go straight to work in the primary literature on a particular aspect of Malebranche's multifarious intellectual life. Also of value are the annotations appended to many of the entries. The editors take their subtide--a "critical" guideuseriously, and the annotations are honest and opinionated ("Ten pages not to be missed," "A collection of'analogies' between M. and Leibniz, of no further use," "... erroneously claims that..., .... gende but firm," "best by far," "brilliarit," "indispensable," "regrettably unclear"), and...

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