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248 HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY How, then, are we fully to understand ouk emou alia tou logou akousantas homologein sophon estin hen panta einai? Listen. "Logos is the Being of beings; it is the gathering together of beings in Being; Logos is the original Being one of all things; all beings are one in Being. An attunement to the Logos, on the part of man, is the being moved by what the Logos says. The Logos speaks the most surprising message (to our metaphysical ears); the Logos says that all beings are, that all beings happen in Being" (p. 78). Only those who subscribe to Nixonian standards of clarity will find Perotti's Heidegger unproblematic. BERND MAGNUS University of California, Riverside BOOK NOTES Kant. By Alexander Koj&ve (Gallimard: Biblioth&que des Idles, 1973. Pp. 219) In a very specific sense this book is a fragment. It was meant to serve as a bridge from Kant to Hegel. The author's death in 1968 prevented him from completing the work; however, his interpretation of Kant's philosophical position quite clearly indicates the line of argument that was to be followed. On the one hand, Kojbve sees the Kantian system as the authentic philosophical exposition of a JudeoChristian anthropology which culminates in Hegel. On the other hand, he finds that the Kantian dualism of will and reason aligns the Sage of K6nigsberg with the pagan philosophy of Antiquity. The argument of the book centers around an analysis of Kant's system of categories and his conception of the thing-in-itself. But the key to Koj~ve's intention is his statement (p. 94) that "the hypothesis envisaged is that Kant's system necessarily transforms itself into the Hegelian system"; that (p. 102) "the simple exclusion of the notion of the thing-in-itself accomplishes.., the transformation." Koj6ve's argument in support of this thesis is essentially an analysis and reinterpretation of Kant's conception of categories and Kant's "analogies of experience" (pp. 139-203). The point made again and again is that when the notion of the thing-in-itself is eliminated, the Kantian system transforms itself into the Hegelian system, "which is also ours" (p. 174). We thus have here what the anonymous editor of the book calls"un Kant'koj~vien'." But does this view really differ greatly from that of the Cornell idealists of a generation or two ago? --W. H. WERKMEISTER F W. J. Schelling: Briefe und Dokumente. Vol. III, 1803-1809. Ed. Horst Fuhrmans. (Bonn: Bouvier Verlag, 1975. Pp. xxi + 666) Volume I of this collection of correspondence appeared in 1962. In the introduction Fuhrmans said that the volume was not meant to be a complete edition but merely was to prepare one. In Volume II, which came out in 1973, Fuhrmans announced (p. viii) his plan for a complete edition of letters to and by Schelling. Accordingly, Volume II presented additional material from 1885 to 1803, and the present Volume III covers the period from 1803 to 1809. As Fuhrmans says in his prefae to Volume III the three volumes now form a unit presenting all extant and available letters to and by Schelling, up to 1809. Volume III has an index of names for all three volumes. The second unit will be Volume IV, bringing together material from 1809 to 1827. In volume I (p. 4) Fuhrmans said that his endeavor to furnish a commentary and footnotes to Schelling's letters brought so many insights into the life of Schelling that he felt he should also give at least a sketch of Schelling's life. Thus we find in Volume I, in instalments, about 125 valuable pages of a rudimentary biography of Schelling up to 1809. Whereas the main contribution of Volume II was the complete correspondence with Fichte, Goethe, arid Hegel, Volume III presents, among other material, the correspondence with such well known disciples as Henrick Steffens, J. V. Troxler and L. Oken, with such faithful (and for our study, important) pupils as G. H. Schubert and J. J. Windischmann, and with the physicians Marcus and R6schlaub, who had a great influence upon Schelling. BOOK REVIEWS 249 Fuhrmans stresses (III, ixf.) that Schelling's correspondence with...