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280 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY stiindnis (understanding-of-Being) in Being and Time. This concept is given but cursory mention in Magnus' study, and, thus, though Magnus' philosophical instincts concerning Heidegger's self-interpretation may be correct, his account is unconvincing. Magnus turns in the second chapter of his second part to Heidegger's interpretation of the eternal recurrence doctrine. Whereas Heidegger construes the eternal recurrence and the will-to-power as a unitary phenomenon, the Nietzschean Being of beings, Magnus argues that Heidegger's interpretation is not textually sustained and that the terms "will" and "revenge" are used more psychologically by Nietzsche than metaphysically. Here Magnus relies heavily on Heidegger's "Who is Nietzsche's Zarathustra?" which appears in Vortriige und Au]siitze. His interpretation of Heidegger's Nietzsche interpretation is very fair and very thorough. The manner in which Heidegger construes Nietzsche's doctrines in relation to the phenomenon of time is treated by Magnus with considerable insight and sensitivity. In his final chapter Magnus both criticizes Heidegger's analysis of Nietzsche's doctrines and commends Heidegger for his suggestiveness and for the philosophical insight into Heidegger's own views which the Nietzsche interpretation conveys. Heidegger is taken to task for ignoring Nietzsche's struggles with the cosmological proof of the eternal recurrence doctrine, missing the significance of the Nietzschean critique of Christianity, conflating Nietzsche's account of nihilism with his own and missing the existential dimension of the eternal recurrence doctrine. These criticisms of Heidegger's Nietzsche interpretation are well documented and well argued. Clearly not enough attention has been given to Heidegger's interpretation of the Western philosophical tradition. Magnus' book helps to remedy this deficiency, and for this reason it is a helpful contribution to Heidegger scholarship. STEPHEN A. ERICKSON Pomona College BOOKS RECEIVED First Editions Allison, Henry E. The Kant-Eberhard Controversy. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1974. pp. xiii + 186. $8.50. Auernheimer, Richard, Gemeinscha# und Gespr'dch: Stefano Guazzos Begriff der "Conservatione Civile'. Humanistische Bibliothek, Series Ill: Skripten, Vol. 2. Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1973. Pp. 189. Paper, DM 28. The American Hegelians: An Intellectual Episode in the History of Western America. Ed. by William H. Goetzmann, with assistance of Dickson Pratt, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973. Pp. xi + 397. $15. Battall, Jean-Francois. L'Avocat Philosophe G~raud de Cordemoy (1626-1684). International Archives of the History of Ideas, 60. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1973. Pp. ix + 267. Gld. 56. Bentham's Political Thought. Ed. by Bhikhu Parelda. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973. Pp. 340. $15.; paper, $4.95. Blanchette, Oliva, S. J. For a Fundamental Social Ethic: A Philosophy o! Social Change. New York: Philosophical Library, 1973. Pp. xxiii + 230. $7.50. Bolton, J. D. P. Glory, lest and Riddle: A Study of the Growth o/Individualism from Homer to Christianity. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973. Pp. ix + 166. $$9. Cameron, David. The Social Thought of Rousseau and Burke: A Comparative Study. Buffalo: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1973. Pp. x + 242. $11.50. Cilento, Vincenzo. Saggi su PIotino. Biblioteca di filosofia, 7. MOan: U. Mursia and Co., 1973. Pp. 359. L 9000. This is a collection of Cilento's previously published essays. Collins, Robert E. Theodore Parker: American Transcendentalist. A Critical Essay and a Collection of his Writings. Metuehen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1973. Pp. vi + 27I. $7.50. BOOKS RECEIVED 281 Comte, Auguste. Correspondance Gdndrale et Confessions. Vol. I 1814-1840. Ed. by Paulo E. de Berr~do Carneiro and Pierre Arnaud. Intro. by Paulo E. de Berr~do Carneiro. Archives Positivistes. The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1973. Pp. xxxi + 437. Paper, 88 F. A Concordance to the Essays of Francis Bacon. Ed. by David W. Davies and Elizabeth S. Wrigley . Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1973. Pp. xi + 392. $24. Crescini, Angelo. II Problema Metodologico alle Origini della Scienza Moderna. Universit~ Degli Studi di Treste, Facolt~ de Lettere de Filosofia, Istituto di Filosofia, 3. Rome: Edizioni dell'Ateneo , 1972. Pp. 491. Paper, L 5000. Cresswell, M. J. Logics and Languages. London: Methuen and Co., 1973. Pp. xi + 273. ~s The Fabric of Existentialism: Philosophical and Literary Sources. Ed. by Richard Gill and Ernest Sherman. New York: Appleton...