In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:

  • Books Received
Adamo, Giovanni. De antiquissima Italorum Sapientia di Giambattista Vico: Indici e ristampa anastatica (Lessico intellettuale Europeo). Florence: Leo Olschki editore, 1998. xxxiii, 467p. L110,000. Photoreproduction of 1710 edition, index of Latin and Italian words and names, alphabetical listing with location and according to frequency, distribution, variants, emendations, and critical introduction.
Ariew, Roger, John Cottingham, and Tom Sorell, eds. Descartes’ Meditations: Background Source Materials (Cambridge Philosophical Texts in Context, John Cottingham and Daniel Garber, gen. eds.). New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. xviii, 270p., bibl., index. Lesser lights from Ramus (1555) to Morin (1635).
Avnon, Dan. Martin Buber: The Hidden Dialogue (Twentieth-Century Political Thinkers, Kenneth L. Deutsch and Jean Bethke Elshtain, gen. eds.). New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. x, 277p., index. Introduction.
Balibar, Etienne. Spinoza and Politics. Trans. by Peter Snowdon. New York: Verso, 1998. xix, 136p., bibl., index. $20. Trans. of Spinoza et la politique(1985).
Battigelli, Anna. Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind (Studies in the English Renaissance, John T. Shawcross, gen. ed.). Lexington, Ken.: UP of Kentucky, 1998. xii, 180p., bibl., index. $32. Intellectual biography.
Bellamy, Liz. Commerce, Morality, and the Eighteenth-Century Novel. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. vii, 223p., bibl., index. $59.95. Economic and social thought as background to the novel.
Biletzki, Anat, and Anat Matar, eds. The Story of Analytic Philosophy: Plots and Heroes (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy). New York: Routledge, 1998. xiv, 276p., index. $70. Essays by fifteen scholars, from a 1996 conference at Tel Aviv University.
Blay, Michel. Reasoning with the Infinite: From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe. Trans. by M. B. DeBevoise. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998. x. 216p., bibl., index. Translation of Les Raisons de l’infini (1993).
Den Boer, Pim. History as a Profession: The Study of History in France, 1818–1914. Trans. by Arnold J. Pomerans. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998. xv, 470p., app., bibl., index. $49. Historiographical practice and pedagogy from Guizot to Henri Berr, bibliometrically examined.
Brooks, John I., III. The Eclectic Legacy: Academic Philosophy and the Human Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France. Newark: U of Delaware P, 1998. 323p., bibl., index. $49.50. Philosophy, scientific psychology, and sociology, especially Ribot, Espinas, Janet, and Durkheim.
Brudney, Daniel. Marx’s Attempt to Leave Philosophy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1998. xviii, 425p., index. $45. From Hegel to Marx—and the humanist Marx (of the German Ideology) is the true Marx.
Chevallier, Raymond. La Patrie (Que sais-je?, Paul Angoulvent and Anne Laure Angoulvent-Michel, eds.). Paris: PU de France, 1998. 128p., bibl. Lectures on the nation, from classical Greece and Rome to modern Europe.
Cioffi, Frank. Freud and the Question of Pseudoscience. Chicago: Open Court, 1998. ix, 313p., index. Freud is untruthful, so “why are we still arguing about [him]?”
Collins, Steven. Nirvana and Other Buddhist Felicities: Utopias of the Pali Imaginaire (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions, John Clayton, Steven Collins, and Nicholas de Lange, eds.). xxiv, 684p., bibl., index. Literary and historical contexts of Buddhist utopias.
Cottingham, John. Philosophy and the Good Life: Reason and the Passions in Greek, Cartesian, and Psychoanalytic Ethics. New York: Cambridge UP, 1998. xii, 230p., bibl., index. Controlling, through philosophy, the animal within us.
Daston, Lorraine, and Katharine Park. Wonders and the Order of Nature: 1150–1750. Cambridge: MIT P, 1998. 511p., bibl., index. $34. “Wonderful” aberrations of nature in medieval and early modern European art, literature, politics, and science.
Debeljak, Ale(check). Reluctant Modernity: The Institution of Art and Its Historical Forms (Postmodern Social Futures, Stjepan Mestrovic, ed.). New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. xxiv, 211p., bibl., index. Art in terms of post-Marxian and post-postmodern social theory.
Delsemme, Armand. Our Cosmic Origins: From the Big Bang to the Emergence of Life and Intelligence. New York: Cambridge UP, 1988. xix, 322p., bibl., ill., indices. Popular scientific summary, from macro to micro, and life.
Dewey, John. The Essential Dewey. vol. 1: Pragmatism, Education, Democracy. vol. 2: Ethics, Logic, Psychology. Ed. by Larry A. Hickman and Thomas M. Alexander. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998. xxv, 842p., index. Selections, topically arranged.
Dickson, Donald R. The Tessera of Antilia: Utopian Brotherhoods and Secret Societies in the Early Seventeenth Century (Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History...

Share