Books Received

The Affirmation of Life: Nietzsche on Overcoming Nihilism. By Bernard Reginster. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. Pp. xii + 312. Hardcover $35.00.

Alef, Mem, Tau: Kabbalistic Musings on Time, Truth, and Death. By Elliot R. Wolfson. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xv + 327. Hardcover $45.00.

Alfred North Whitehead and Yi Yulgok: Toward a Process-Confucian Spirituality in Korea. By Chung Soon Lee. Lanham: University Press of America, 2006. Pp. 192. Paper $29.95.

Bhoga Kārikā of Sadyojyoti. By W. A. Borody. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, 2005. Pp. xi + 174. Hardcover Rs 395.

The Columbia History of Western Philosophy. Edited by Richard H. Popkin. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi + 836. Hardcover $73.50, £47.50. Paper $29.95, £19.50.

Confucius. By Rémi Mathieu. Paris: Éditions Médicis-Entrelacs, 2006. Pp. 269. Paper €18.50.

Early Buddhist Discourses. Edited by John J. Holder. Indianapolis and Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company, 2006. Pp. xxiii + 216. Hardcover $37.95. Paper $12.95.

Early Islam between Myth and History: Al-Hasan al-Basrī (d. 110H/728 CE) and the Formation of His Legacy in Classical Islamic Scholarship. By Suleiman Ali Mourad. Leiden: Brill, 2006. Pp. xi + 338. Hardcover €129, U.S. $174.

Encountering the Dharma: Daisaku Ikeda, Soka Gakkai, and the Globalization of Buddhist Humanism. By Richard Hughes Seager. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Pp. xv + 245. Hardcover $50.00, £32.50. Paper $19.95, £12.95.

The Essential Ideas of Islamic Philosophy: A Brief Survey. By Mashhad Al-Allaf. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2006. Pp. ii + 345. Hardcover $119.95.

The Flood Myths of Early China. By Mark Edward Lewis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. vi + 248. Hardcover $70.00.

Heidegger, Rorty, and the Eastern Thinkers: A Hermeneutics of Cross-Cultural Understanding. By Wei Zhang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. x + 127. Hardcover $45.00.

L'Interdit du Boeuf en Chine: Agriculture, Éthique et Sacrifice. By Vincent Goossaert. Paris: Collège de France, Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, 2005. Pp. 319. Price not given.

Islamic Humanism. By Lenn E. Goodman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 273. Price not given.

Karma. By Dr. Aditya Kumar Mohanty. Bhubaneswar: Utkal University, 2004. Pp. v + 161. Hardcover Rs 150.

Liberation as Affirmation: The Religiosity of Zhuangzi and Nietzsche. By Ge Ling Shang. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. x + 198. Hardcover $60.00.

A Mind with Wings: The Story of Henry David Thoreau. By Gerald and Loretta Hausman. Boston: Trumpeter, 2006. Pp. x + 148. Hardcover U.S. $15.95, Can $22.95.

Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy. By Muhammad Kamal. Burlington: Ashgate, 2006. Pp. 136. Hardcover $89.95.

Ogyū Sorai's Philosophical Masterworks: The Bendō and Benmei. By John A. Tucker. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press and Association for Asian Studies, 2006. Pp. xiv + 478. Hardcover $56.00.

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe: Representation and the Loss of the Subject. By John Martis. New York: Fordham University Press, 2005. Pp. xv + 296. Hardcover $75.00. Paper $24.00.

Philosophie Comparée Grè ce, Inde, Chine. By Joachim Lacrosse. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2005. Pp. 187. Paper €16.

Rewriting Early Chinese Texts. By Edward L. Shaughnessy. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. Pp. 287. Hardcover $85.00. Paper $29.95.

Styles of Piety: Practicing Philosophy after the Death of God. Edited by S. Clark Buckner and Matthew Statler. New York: Fordham University Press, 2006. Pp. xi + 303. Hardcover $75.00. Paper $26.00.

Śū nya Puruṣa: Bauddha Vaiṣṇavism of Orissa. By Tandra Patnaik. New Delhi: D. K. Printworld (P) Ltd., 2005. Pp. xx + 268. Hardcover Rs 500, U.S. $25.00.

A Topography of Confucian Discourse: Politico philosophical Reflections on Confucian Discourse since Modernity. By Seung-hwan Lee and translated by Jaeyoon Song and Seung-hwan Lee. Paramus, NJ: Homa and Sekey Books, 2005. Pp. xi + 256. Hardcover $49.95. Paper $29.95.

Zen-Brain Reflections: Reviewing Recent Developments in Meditation and States of Consciousness. By James H. Austin, M.D. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. Pp. xxvii + 586. Hardcover $39.95.