Books Received

Alryyes, Ala. Original Subjects: The Child, The Novel, and the Nation. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2001. 228p., index. $20. How the early novel took up the topic of childhood.

Aristotle. On the Soul and On Memory and Recollection. Tr. by Joe Sachs. Sante Fe, N.M.: Green Lion P, 2001. x, 211p., index. New translation, with introduction, notes, and glossary.

Arp, Kristana. The Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics. Chicago: Open Court P, 2001. x, 178p., bibl., index. $19.95. Analysis of Ethics of Ambiguity (1946).

Badía Cabrera, Miguel A. Hume's Reflection on Religion. Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001. xiii, 328p., bibl., index. Revision and expansion of La reflexión de David Hume en torno a la religión (1996).

Baker, Keith Michael, and Peter Hans Reill. What's Left of Enlightenment? A Postmodern Question. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2001. ix, 203p., index. $19.95. Papers by nine distinguished scholars.

Barnhurst, Kevin G., and John Nerone. The Form of News: A History (The Guilford Communications Series). New York: Guilford, 2001. x, 326p., bibl., index. An intellectual history of newspapers as instruments of democracy, with special attention to organization, layout, and writing styles.

Becker, Peter, and William Clark, eds. Little Tools of Knowledge: Historical Essays on Academic and Bureaucratic Practices. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2001. x, 322p., index. Ten contributions on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Germany.

Bell, David A. The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680-1800. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2001. xiv, 304p., index. Case study of the origins of nationalism--memory, character, language, etc.

Bernal, Martin. Black Athena Writes Back: Martin Bernal Responds to His Critics. Ed. by David Chioni Moore. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2001. xxvi, 550p., bibl., index. Sixteen replies, protests, and counter-protests on many topics.

Berridge, G. R., Maurice Keens-Soper, and T. G. Otte. Diplomatic Theory from Machiavelli to Kissinger (Studies in Diplomacy, G. R. Berridge, gen. ed.). New York: Palgrave, 2001. ix, 216p., index. $69.95. Nine essays.

Black, Robert. Humanism and Education in Medieval and Renaissance Italy: Tradition and Innovation in Latin Schools from the Twelfth to the Fifteenth Century. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. app., bibl., index. $80. First comprehensive study of the educational curriculum in medieval and Renaissance Italy, based on extensive manuscript study.

Bordoli, Roberto. Etica Arte Scienza tra Descartes e Spinoza: Lodewijk Meyer (1629-1681) e l'Associazione Nil Volentibus Arduum. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2001. 284p., index. Intellectual biography, with appended letters and other texts.

Bowler, Peter J. Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2001. xiv, 480p., bibl., index. Liberal theologians, Anglican modernists, rationalists, and Marxists and the problematic reception of science.

Bracali, Marco. Il Filologo Ispirato Ratio e Spiritus in Sebastiano Castellione. Milan: FrancoAngeli, 2001. 224p., index. Intellectual background of the idea of tolerance.

Bradley, James E., and Dale K. Van Kley, eds. Religion and Politics in Enlightenment Europe. Notre Dame, Ind.: U of Notre Dame P, 2001. xiii, 409p., index. $24.95. Seven scholarly essays.

Buc, Philippe. The Dangers of Ritual: Between Early Medieval Texts and Social Scientific Theory. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001. xi, 272p., index. Ritual as an impediment to the reading of medieval documents, four case studies.

Colaiaco, James A. Socrates against Athens: Philosophy on Trial. New York: Routledge, 2001. xi, 266p., bibl., index. $85. The modern meaning of Socrates' trial.

Condillac, Etienne Bonnot de. Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge. Ed. and tr. by Hans Aarsleff. New York: Cambridge UP, 2001. xlvi, 228p. index. $21.95. New, scholarly translation, with critical introduction and other apparatus.

Cooke, Bill. Joseph McCabe and Rationalism: A Rebel to his Last Breath. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2001. 332p., app., bibl., index. $32. Life and activities of Catholic priest.

Corsano, Antonio. G. W. Leibniz (Opere Scelte di Antonio Corsano, vol. V). Ed. by Gabriella Sava. Galatina: Congedo Editore, 2000. xiv, 190p., bibl., index. Six papers on Leibnitiana, with "editorial note."

Cumming, Robert Denoon. Phenomenology and Deconstruction. Volume 3: Breakdown in Communication. Chicago...