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106 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY sionally an interesting text is quoted, and all quotations are translated. For those who collect the likes of baseball cards there are pictures of many logicians. But when Dumitriu attempts to interpret the materials he has assembled he either recapitulates what we have just read or quotes without evaluation what so-and-so says pro et contra or speculates in ways that test at times the most generous canons of textual evidence. Taking his theme from Heraclitus ("The Great Obscure" [sic]), "War engenders all things, war is father of all things---but all things are unified in a superior harmony --logos" 0:8t), Dumitriu pictures the development of logic as a kind of war between the Gods and the Giants. Among the Gods we find Plato, Aristotle, some Schoolmen, Hegel, Marx, and Lenin. On the side of the Giants we see the Stoics, Lull, Leibniz, Boole, Frege, Peano, Russell, and a host of mathematical logicians. The combatants are poised and counterpoised in battle over a wide range of issues-identity vs. diversity, the universal vs. the concrete, form vs. content, intension vs. extension, and so on. Is "The Logic" (Dumitriu's term) a function of metaphysics and ontology? Or is "The Logic" the mere manipulation of symbols? Is "The Logic" formal? Or is "The Logic" dialectical? Dumitriu seems to believe that the future of logic rests in the hands of the Gods. His truncated summaries of the work of noble giants even lend an air of plausability to his vision of a comprehensive logic written from the transcendental viewpoint. Yet, when the contributiong of certain twentiethcentury giants (e.g., G6del, Tarski) are cansidered carefully and taken seriously the very possibility of a single comprehensive logic is called into question. Whatever logic the wary reader learns from these volumes--and there is a great deal of logic to learn from themmwe suspect that he will gain a better appreciation of that comment made by the Frenchman at the battle of Balaclava: "C'est magnifique; mais ce n'est pas la guerre." ALAN PERREIAH DON HOWARD University of Kentucky We wish to thank our colleague Daniel Breazeale for valuable discussion on the contents of Volume 3. BOOKS RECEIVED Annas, Julia. An Introduction to Plato's "Republic." Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. viii + 362. $29.oo, cloth; $12.95, paper. Atiyah, P. S. Promises, Morals, and Law. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. ~18. $99.95. Auciello, Nicola. La ragione politica: Saggio sul'intelletto europeo. Bari: De Donato, 1981. Pp. 246. L. 9,5oo. Bindeman, Steven L. Heidegger and Wittgenstein: The Poeticsof Silence. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981. Pp. 153. $15.75, cloth; $7.5o, paper. Bottin, Francesco, et al. Dalle orig~nirinascimentali alla "historiaphilosophica." Brescia: Editrice La Scuola, 1981. Pp. xx + 527. BOOKS RECEIVED 10 7 Buroker, Jill Vance. Space and Incongruence: The Origin of Kant's Idealism. Synth~se Historical Library, vol. 21. Dordrecht, Boston, and London: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1981. Pp. 144. $31.50. Clarke, Simon. The Foundations of Structuralism: A Critique of Levi Strauss and the Structuralist Movement. Studies in Philosophy, no. 17. Totowa: Barnes & Noble Books, 1981. Pp. viii + 264. $26.5o. Clause, David B. Toward the Soul: An Inquiry into the Meaning of qJvxiI before Plato. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981. Pp. 2oo. $17.5~. The Clockwork Universe: German Clocks and Automata, t 55o~165o. Ed. Klaus Maurice and Otto Mayr. New York: Neale Watson Academic Publications, 198o. Pp. ix + 3~. $55.oo. Connelly, R. J. Whitehead vs. Hartshorne: Basic Metaphysical Issues. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981. Pp. x + 162. $17.75, cloth; $9.oo, paper. Dudeck, C. V. Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind: Analysis and Commentary. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1981. Pp. 286. $19.75, cloth; $1o.25, paper. Englebretsen, George. Logical Negation. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1981. Pp. 62. Dfl. 1o.9o. Englebretsen, George. Three Logicians: Aristotle, Leibniz, and Sommers and the Syllogistic. Assen: Van Gorcum, 1981. Pp. ix + 118. Dfl. 18.oo. Feenberg, Andrew. Lukacs, Marx, and the Sources of Critical Theory. Totowa: Rowman and Littlefield , 1981. Pp. xiv + 286. $24.5o. Filosofia e Religione di Fronte alla Morte. Archivo...

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