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Journal of the History of Ideas 64.2 (2003) 337-341



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Almond, Gabriel A., Scott R. Appleby, and Emmanuel Sivan. Strong Religion: The Rise of Fundamentalisms around the World. Chicago: U Chicago P, 2003. ix, 281p., index. From the Fundamentalism Project, after 9-11.

Appelbaum, Nancy, Anne Macpherson, and Karin Rosenblatt, eds. Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2003. xvi, 329p., bibl., index. Ten contributions.

Apportone, Anselmo, Francesco Aronadio, and Paolo Spinicci. Il Problema Dell'intuizione: Tre studi su Plantone, Kant, Husserl. Naples: Bibliopolis, 2002. 193p., bibl., index. Three essays.

Arkes, Hadley. Natural Rights and the Right to Choose. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. xiii, 302p., index. A doctrine under fire.

Aston, Nigel. Christianity and Revolutionary Europe 1750-1830. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. xiii, 379p., index. $65. Survey of the role and survivals of the churches.

Bambach, Charles. Heidegger's Roots: Nietzsche, National Socialism, and the Greeks. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2003. xxvi, 350p., index. $45. Homeland, university, geo-politics, and the Nazis.

Blyth, Mark. Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. xii, 284p., index. Polanyi and after.

Bolla, Peter de. Art Matters. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003. ix, 157p., index. Three case studies from art, music, and poetry.

Brittan, Simon. Poetry, Symbol, and Allegory: Interpreting Metaphorical Language from Plato to the Present. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2003. xiii, 226p. Introductory survey for prose and poetical works.

Broad, Jacqueline. Women Philosophers of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Cambridge UP, 2002. ix, 191p., bibl., index. Six female philosophers.

Carter, Michael. Fashion Classics From Carlyle to Barthes. New York: Berg, 2003. xiv, 178p., index, bibl. $23. Clothing and fashion in social theory.

Chevalier, Jacques M. Half-Brain Fables and Figs in Paradise. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2002. viii, 197p., bibl., index. Neuropsychological, semiotic studies.

Chevalier, Jacques M. Scorpions and the Anatomy of Time. Montreal: McGill-Queen's UP, 2002. 224p., bibl., index. See above.

Conley, John J. The Suspicion of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2003. xi, 222p., bibl., index. Five women moral philosophers in salon culture.

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De Pace, Anna. La scepsi, il sapere, e l'anima: Dissonanze nella cerchia lau-renziana. Milan: Edizioni Universitare di Lettere Economia Diritto, 2002. 314p., bibl., index. Discussions of Ficino, Pico, and Poliziano. [End Page 337]

Dermange, François. Le Dieu du Marché: Éthique, économie, and théologie dans l'oeuvre d'Adam Smith. Geneva: Labor et Fides, 2003. 310p., bibl., index. In search of the Invisible Hand.

Eldridge, Richard, ed. Stanley Cavell (Contemporary Philosophy in Focus). New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. x, 248p., bibl., index. Nine comments.

Epstein, Catherine. The Last Revolutionaries: German Communists and their Century. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2003. 322p., bibl., index. Generation of radical adventurers and victims.

Foner, Eric. Who Owns History? Rethinking the Past in a Changing World. New York: Hill and Wang, 2002. xix, 233p., index. Collected essays.

French, Roger. Medicine Before Science: The Business of Medicine from the Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. v, 289p., bibl., index. Medical profession before the Enlightenment.

Glock, Hans-Johann. Quine and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Reality. New York: Cambridge UP, 2003. xvi, 311p., bibl., index. $60. Philosophical reading on conventional topics.

Grunebaum, James O. Friendship: Liberty, Equality, and Utility. Albany: State U of New York P, 2003. ix, 192p., bibl., index. Philosophical commentary on Aristotle and others.

Gundissalinus, Dominicus. The Procession of the World (De processione mundi). Trans. and intro. by John A. Laumakis. Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette UP, 2002. 87p., bibl., index. Translation with introduction and apparatus.

Halfin, Igal, ed. Language and Revolution: Making Modern Political Identities. London: Frank Cass, 2002. 403p., index. Sixteen contributions from a Tel Aviv conference.

Hau, Michael. The Cult of Health and Beauty in Germany: A Social History, 1890-1930. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2003. x, 286p., bibl., index. $22. Ways of disciplining and improving bodies...

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