Books Received

182 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 33:1 JANUARY I995 not always seem to be able to play by his own rules. In his account of Heidegger's early lecture courses, he gives his content by means of a paraphrase, which leaves the reader no chance to verify the soundness of his reconstruction. The fact that Heidegger's publication rights are being held by the editors of the Gesamtausgabe urges Kisiel to keep his sources hidden. As large divisions of part I of his book consist of more or less complete paraphrases of Heidegger's early lectures, these portions become impossible to check and the reader is unable to distinguish between Heidegger's own words, the student transcripts, and Kisiel's interpretation of them. In the case of Heidegger's lecture from WS 192o/~ 1 (Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion) I had the opportunity to look at Oskar Becker's transcript, which serves as Kisiers basic source for this lecture. Checking the two places where Kisiel claims to give literal quotations (80, 17~), I found some interpretative modifications and additions to the German transcript, which underline Heidegger's personal pathos. The alterations are minor ones, but they show the inherent problem of Kisiel's approach: the lack of verifiability, which is due partly to the editorial policy of Heidegger's literary executors, partly to Kisiel's paraphrasing method, through which the differences between the extant student transcripts are blurred as well. Moreover, Kisiel falls short of his own claims of reliability when he leaves the reader of his chapter on "The Deconstruction of Life" without any hint concerning the sources of his knowledge about the two lectures he deals with, without even mentioning the editorial plans of the Gesamtausgabe, in which the two discussed lectures meanwhile have appeared as volumes 58 and 59. Finally, one false claim should be corrected: the important early lecture on the phenomenology of religion will not remain unpublished, as Kisiel asserts (7, lo and 5~9; he does indicate the forthcoming publication on 2), but will appear in volume 60, together with the lecture from SS 1921, "Augustine and Neoplatonism." Kisiel's impressive study sets new standards for the reconstruction of Heidegger's thought which are not always fulfilled by the author himself. MATTHIAS JVNe University of Frankfurt BOOKS RECEIVED Acke, Daniel. Vauvenargues Moraliste: La syath~seimpossiblede l'id~e de nature et de la pensie de la diversitY. K61n:Janus Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993.Pp. viii + 548. Paper, DM 78.oo. Allen, Michael J. B. Nuptial Arithmetic:Marsilio Ficino'sCommentaryon the Fatal Number in Book VIII of Plato's "Republic." Berkeley. CA: University of California Press, 1994. Pp. x + 29t. Cloth, $55.oo. Anderson, Thomas C. Sartre's Two Ethics: From Authenticity to Integral Humanity. Chicago: Open Court Publishing Co., 1993. Pp. xiv + 215. Cloth, $36.95. Paper, $t7.95. Angoulvent, Anne-Laure. Hobbes et la morale politique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, I994. Pp. t27. Paper, NP. Bailhache, G~rard. Le Sujet chez Emmanuel Levinas: Fragili~ et subjectivitL Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. Pp. 348. Paper, FF 198.oo. BOOKS RECEIVED 183 Barber, Kenneth F. and ]orge J. E. Gracia, editors, lndi~luation and ldent~ in Early Modern Philosophy:Descartesto Kant. Albany: SUNY Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 275- Board, $18.95. BataiUe,Georges. OnNietzsche.Translated by Bruce Boone. New York: Paragon House, 1994. Pp. xxxiv + 199. Paper, $12.95. Bausola, Adriano and Giovanni Reale, editors. Aristotele: Perch~ la metafisica. Milano: Vitae Pensiero, 1994. Pp. 649. Cloth, L 750o. Berman, David. GeorgeBerkel~: Idealism and the Man. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 230.Cloth, $42.o0. Breazeale, Daniel and Tom Rockmore, editors. Fichte: Historical Contexts/ContemporaryControversies . Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994. Pp. vi + 271.Cloth, $55.00. Brennan, Teresa. History after Lacan. New York: Rout.ledge, 1993. Pp. xv + 239. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $16.95. Brown, James Robert. Smoke and Mirrors: How ScienceReflectsReality. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. viii + 2oo. Paper, $17.95. Brunschwig, Jacques. Papers in HellenisticPhilosophy.Translated byJanet Lloyd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xiii + 277. Cloth, $69.95. Biihler, Axel,editor. Unzeitgem6.sseHermeneutik: Verstehenund Interpretationim OenkenderAu]'kMrung. Frankfurt: Vittorio Kiostermann, 1994. Pp. 275. Cloth, DM...