Books Received

BOOK REVIEWS 325 (where established) of the principal works of each writer taken up. Moreover, the Avesta, Bible, Koran, Bhagavad Gita, and other scriptural and quasi-scriptural writings are accorded separate treatments. After a decent interval, during which it is to be hoped that a host of readers will absorb some of the truly informative pages of Reese's Dictionary, it might be well for the publishers to bring out a new edition. In such an event, the author and his editor, Richard Huett, could consider adding a few articles, less often on individual thinkers than on general concepts, of which the following are a sampling: Crisis, Death, French Philosophy (and that of most other nations; there is already one on the Greek), Health, Hope, Journals, Neville Keynes (Maynard Keynes is already included ), Life, Medical Ethics, Mertonian School, Occult Qualities, Therapy, and some others. Certain entries, for instance "Passion," and especially "Self," could be enlarged to the size of "Will," and "Mind-Body Problem." Perhaps teachers will be a little furtive when they use this book, so helpful in so short a compass, but students, graduate and undergraduate, as well as general readers who wish to brush up on their Positivism and their Radhakrishnan can afford more openly to embrace it. To a generation brought up to believe that philosophy is an activity, never a theory, it should be valuable to see once again doctrines treated as at least the benchmarks left by the waves of this restless intellectual searching. GEORGE KIMBALL PLOCHMANN Southern Illinois University, Carbondale BOOKS RECEIVED Ackrill, J. L. Aristotle the Philosopher. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981. Pp. 158. $7.95, paper. Agassi, Joseph. Science and Society: Studies in the Sociology of Science. Boston Studies in the Sociology of Science, vol. 65. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., 1981,Pp. xv + 531. $79.oo, cloth; $39.5o, paper. An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Marxism, Socialism, and Communism. Compiled by Josef Wilczynski. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1981. Pp. 66o. DMj 18.oo. Aquinas: Selected Political Writings. Ed. with intro, by A. P. D'Entreves. Trans. J. G. Dawson. Totowa, N.J.: Barlles and Noble Books, 1981. Pp. xxxvi + 1oo. $6.95, paper. Aristotle: The Collected Papers ofJoseph Owens. Ed. John R. Catan. Albany: State University of New York Press, 198a. Pp. viii + 264. $36.5o, cloth; $11.95, paper. Bertrand Russell: A Bibliography of his Writings. Compiled by Werner Martin. Munich: K. G. Saur, 1981. Pp. xiv + 332. $27.oo. Brumbaugh, Robert S. The Philosophers of Greece. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1981. Pp. xi + 274. $27.5 o, cloth; $8.95, paper. Christensen, Renate. Lebendige Gegenwart und Urerlebnis: Zur Konkretisierung des Transzendentalen apriori bei Husserl und Reininger. Veroeffentlichungen der Kommission ftir Philosophie und Paedagogik, no. 20. Vienna: Verlag der Oesterreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1981. Pp. 152. DM3o.oo. 326 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey. Vol. l, Philosophy of Language; Philosophical Logic. Ed. Guttorm Floistid. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1981. Pp. ix + 4o4. D'Amico, Robert. Marx and Philosophyof Culture. University of Florida Monographs, Humanities no. 5o. Gainesville, Fla.: University Presses of Florida, 1981. Pp. vii + lO8. $7.oo. Deregibus, Arturo. Bruno e Spinoza: La realta dell'infinito e il problema della sua Unita. 2 vols. Torino: Giappichelli Editore, x98x. Vol. x, Il concerto dell'infinito nel pensiero filosofico di Bruno. Pp. 2oo. Llo,ooo.oo. Vol. 2, La dottrina di Spinoza sull'infinito. Pp. 2o4. Llo,ooo.oo. Dummett, Michael. The Interpretation of Frege'sPhilosophy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. Pp. xviii + 621. $4o.oo. Ellos, William J. Thomas Reid's Newtonian Realism. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America , 1981. Pp. v + 69. $15.75 , cloth; $6.75 , paper. Elrod, John W. KieTkegaard and Christendom. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 198]. Pp. xxiv + 320. $~.5 o. Englebretsen, George. Three Logicians: Aristotle, Leibniz, and Sommers and the SyUogt.~tic.Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, 1981. Pp. x + 118. Fa8.oo, paper. Englebretsen, George. Logical Negation. Assen, The Netherlands: Van Gorcum, t981. Pp. x + 62. Flo.91 , Paper. Findlay, J. N. Kant and the Transcendental Object:A Hermeneutic Study. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1981. Pp. xxiv + 392. $24.oo. Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Dialogue and Dialectic:Eight...