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BOOK REVIEWS 281 Jacobi's collected Werke. The 1815 edition was reprinted by the Wissenschaffliche Buchgesellschaft in the 197os, but the original edition (which includes a short preface omitted from the second edition) has remained widely unavailable. The appearance of a new, well-produced photo-mechanical reprint edition of the 1787 edition is thus a most welcome event, as is the decision to include (as an appendix to the text) the entire 123 page preface to the second edition. This new edition also includes a 14 page introduction in English by Hamilton Beck. Though Professor Beck betrays a somewhat inappropriately condescending attitude toward Jacobi's philosophical abilities , his introduction nevertheless constitutes a welcome addition to the scant number of discussions of Jacobi's philosophy in English. It includes, in addition to a brief survey of Jacobi's life and writings, an able discussion of the differences between the 1787 text and that of 1815, as well as an informed account of the differences between Hume's concept of "belief" and Jacobi's notion of Glaube (which is not at all inappropriate , considering that this volume is part of a series of reprints of works on "the philosophy of David Hume"). The introduction is supplemented by useful notes and references to the secondary literature. Jacobi's David Hume is a work which still deserves to be read in its own right, in addition to being an essential text for an adequate appreciation of the history of Humeanism or the development of German Idealism. It is especially encouraging to note that an American publisher has been responsible for making this important text more widely available. One would like to hope that contemporary readers of philosophical literature and students of the history of philosophy might thereby be encouraged to become better acquainted with the writings of this truly original and influential authorBthough one must also confess that this is unlikely to happen on any significant scale until Jacobi's philosophical works have begun to become available in English translation. For introducing Anglo-American philosophers to Jacobi, a future translator could make no better choice than David Hume on Belief, or Idealism and Realism. DANIEL BREAZEALE UniversityofKentucky M. J. Inwood. Hegel. The Arguments of the Philosophers. Boston: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983. Pp. 582. $45.oo. Historians of contemporary philosophy generally cite Bradley and McTaggart's 'Hegelianism ' as the point of departure for twentieth-century analytic philosophy. Bertrand Russell tells us that t898 was the critical year for his rejection of Hegel and that rejection, together with the later discovery of Frege, has been decisive for the subsequent development of philosophy thoughout the English-speaking world. In light of this, some readers will be startled or fascinated by the ultimate contention of the book under review: So far, "Hegel has outlasted most of his critics" (52o) and "Hegel 's position may ultimately prove to the the right one .... " But it is "too early" to say. Why? Because "it is only recently that.., analytical philosophers have begun to make use of what he has to offer" (523). 282 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY We seem to have come a long way since those militant days of analytic philosophy when, as Russell puts it, "... I began to believe everything the Hegelians disbelieved ." In the meanwhile analytic philosophy has softened, moving from a set of doctrines, most now abandoned, to a vague celebration of 'precision' and a characteristically brisk style of argumentation. Of course Mr. Inwood is not the first to serve up Hegel in the generally accepted style of contemporary Anglophone philosophy. But his two major predecessors, J. N. Findlay (Hegel, a958) and Charles Taylor (Hegel, x975), both came to Hegel with philosophical predispositions rather alien to the more austerely Fregean core of analydc philosophy: Neo-Platonic 'rational mysticism' in the case of Findlay and continental hermeneutic phenomenology with Taylor. Inwood 's analytic style is uncontaminated by any such content. Thus he can make fair claim to have written the first large-scale (his book is bigger than Findlay's and, by a hair, Taylor's) and hard-core analytic treatment of Hegel. Students of Hegel who also delight in this style may well take...

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