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396 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 27:2 APRIL 1989 reflections of Marcus on the nature and destiny of the human being, for his biography gives us an admirably full account of the external aspect of Marcus's life and career. In a book rich in detail, Birley gives us a view of Marcus's adoptive family and the empire under Antoninus, Marcus's education and early commerce with Stoic philosophers, the embarrassments caused by his brother and less than Stoical co-ruler, Lucius Commodus , the devastating plague of 167, Marcus's predictably Stoical reaction to the rumors of Faustina's infidelities, and the wars in the East and the Marcomannic Wars, during the course of which Marcus, fatally ill, died. Birley's narrative reflects Marcus's relatively humane stance as regards slavery and his ultimately hostile attitude towards Christianity. Birley's biography contains three maps, five detailed appendices, and some powerfully telling plates of coins and tablets from the Aurelian column. I noticed one lacuna (P. 97, line 13: a 'to' is missing) and one unwanted word (p. t84, line ~9: 'should' for 'she') in this otherwise nicely produced book. JOSIAH B. GOULD State University of New York, Albany BOOKS RECEIVED Ackermann, Robert John. Wittgenstein's City. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 267. Cloth, $25.oo. Paper, $12.95. Agacinski, Sylviane. Apart~. Conceptionsand Deaths of SOrenKierkegaard. Translated with an Introduction by Kevin Newmark. Kierkegaard and Postmodernism. Tallahassee: Florida State University Press, 1988. Pp. xi + 266. Paper, $24.95. Alford, C. Fred. Narcissism: Socrates, the Frankfurt School, and PsychoanalyticTheory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. Pp. x + 249. $24.5o. Angell,J. Williamand Robert M. Helm. Meaning and Value in Western Thought. A History of ldeas in Western Culture. Vol. 2: The Medieval and Modern Development. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1988. Pp. x + 496. Cloth, $36.oo. Paper, $22.5o. Aquinas on Being and Essence. A Translation and Interpretation byJoseph Bobik. Notre Dame, IN: Universityof Notre Dame Press, 1965. Pp. xv + 286. Paper, $9.95. Avineri, Shlomo. Moses Hess: Prophet of Communism and Zionism. New York: New York University Press, 1985. Pp. xii + 266. Paper, $22.5o. Bahm, ArchieJ. Polarity, Dialectic,and Organicity. Albuquerque, NM: World Books, 1977. Pp. 287. Paper, $1o.oo. Bakalar, James B. and Lester Grinspoon. Drug Control in a Free Society. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984. Pp. ix + 174. Paper, $1o.95. Barber, Michael D. Social Typifications and the Elusive Other. The Place of Sociologyof Knowledge in Alfred Schutz's Phenomenology. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University Press, 1988. Pp. 138. $26.50. Barwise, Jon and John Perry. Situationen und Einstellungen. Grundlagen der Situationssemantik. Grundlagen der Kommunikation. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1987. Pp. xxvi + 45o. Paper, DM 94. Battaglia, Felice. Marsilio da Padova e lafilosofia politicadel Medio Evo. Filosofia teoretica e filosofia BOOKS RECEIVED 327 practica--Testi e studi, 2. Bologna: Cooperativa Libraria Universitaria Editrice, 1987. Pp. 278. Paper, NP. Berkeley, George. "PrinciplesofHuman Knowledge"and "ThreeDialoguesbetweenHylasand Philonous." Edited by Roger Woolhouse. London: PenguinBooks, 1988.Pp. 217. Paper, $5.95. Bernauer, James and David Rasmussen, editors. The Final Foucault. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 168. Paper, $9-95. Bluestone, Natalie Harris. Women and theIdeal Society.Plato's "Republic"and Modern Myths of Gender. Amherst: The University of Massachusetts Press, 1987. Pp. x + 238. Cloth, $25.oo. Paper, $11.95. Boethius's "In CiceronisTopica." Translated, with Notes and an Introduction by Eleonore Stump. Ithaca: Cornell UniversityPress, 1988. Pp. xi + 277. $35.oo. B6hme, Gernot. Philosophieren mit Kant. Zur Rekonstruktion der Kantischen Erkenntnis und Wissenschaftstheorie . Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1986.Pp. 252. Paper, NP. Bondurant, Joan V. Conquest of Violence. The Gandhian Philosophyof Conflict. Princeton: Princeton UniversityPress, 1988. Pp. xiii + 281. Paper, $9-95. Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel. The Freudian Subject. Translated by Catherine Porter. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 278. $29.5o. Boschetti, Anna. The Intellectual Enterprise. Sartre and "Les TempsModernes." Translated by Richard C. McCleary. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1988. Pp. 279. Cloth, $42.95. Paper, $14.95. Cardona, Carlos. Metafisica del bieny del mal. Pamplona: Ediciones Universidadde Navarra, S.A., 1987. Pp. 232. Paper, Pesatas 1,25o. Chakravarti, Uma. The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism. Delhi: Oxford...