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BOOKS RECEIVED 359 and brightest scholars. The present of American philosophy is difficult to characterize, as this book unintentionallydemonstrates. The co-editors contend that it is "pluralistic ," but essays and themes in their collection suggest that it is random, lacks vision or purpose, and can occasionally be uninspiring.John McDermott speaks more truly that he may realize in his opening poetic conceit on Whitman in this volume: "The word is German / Heimlosigkeit / The phenomenon is American." GEORGE R. LucAs, JR. National Endowment for the Humanities BOOKS RECEIVED Adams, Robert Merrihew. Leibniz: Determinist, Theist, Idealist. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xi + 433. Cloth, $55.oo. Ansell-Pearson, Keith. An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political Thinker: The Perfect Nihilist. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xix + 243.Cloth, $54.95. Paper, $14.oo. Apel, Karl-Otto. SelectedEssays. Volume One: Towards a Transcendental Semiotics. Eduardo Mendieta, editor. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1994. Pp. xxi + 259.Cloth, $49.95. Aron, Raymond. In Defense of Political Reason. DanielJ. Mahoney, editor. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Pp. x + 187. Cloth, $52.5o. Paper, $19.95. Barwick, Daniel. Intentional Implications: The Impact of a Reduction of Mind on Philosophy. Lanham, MD: UniversityPress of America, 1994. Pp. 172. Cloth, $44.5o. Paper, $25.5o. Beach, Edward Allen. The Potencies of God(s): Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology. Albany: State Universityof New York Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 317. Board, $18.95. Bhaskar, Roy.Plato Etc.: The Problems of Philosophy and Their Resolution. London: Verso, 1994. Pp. xii + 267. Paper, $18.95. Binoche, Bertrand. Les trois sources des philosophies de l'histoire (t 764-x 798). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. Pp. 255. Paper, FF 197.oo. Brands, H. W. The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power. New York: Oxford UniversityPress, 1994. Pp. vii + 294. Cloth, $27.5o. Buchheim, Thomas. Die Vorsokratiker: Ein philosophisches Portrtit. Miinchen: Verlag C. H. Beck, 1994. Pp. 262. Paper, DM 48.oo. Buddensiek, Friedemann.Die Modallogik desAristoteles in den Analytica Priora A. Hildesheim: Olms, 1994. Pp. vii + 143. Paper, DM 37.8o. Canone, Eugenio.Bibliothecae Selectae:Da Cusano a Leopardi. Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 1993. Pp. xxxii + 631. Paper, L 145o. Canovan, Margaret. Hannah Arendt: A Reinterpretation of Her Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 1994. Pp. ix + 298. Paper, $17.95. Chappell, Vere, editor. The Cambridge Companion to Locke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. x + 329. Cloth, $59.95. Paper, $17.95. Claeys, Gregory, editor. Utopias of the British Enlightenment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Pp. xli + 3o5. Cloth, $59-95- Paper, $19.95. Cook, Terrence E. Criteria of Social Scientific Knowledge: Interpretation, Prediction, Praxis. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994. Pp. x + 15L Cloth, $59.5o. Paper, $2L95. Cottingham, John, ed. Reason, Will and Sensation: Studies in Descartes's Metaphysics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. ix + 333. Cloth, $55.oo. 360 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 33:2 APRIL 199 5 Daems, Wiilem F. Nomina Simplicium Medicinarum ex SynonymariisMedii Aevi Collecta. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1993. Pp. 563. Cloth, $51.5o. De Buzon, Fr~d6ric. Descarteset les "Principia" H: Corpset mouvement. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1994. Pp. 128. Paper, FF 45.oo. Dean, William. The Religious Criticin American Culture. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + ~56. Board, $16.95. Derrida, Jacques. Spectersof Marx. Translated by Peggy Kamuf. New York: Routledge, 1994. Pp. xx + 198. Paper, $x6.95. Devaraja, N. K. The Limits ofDisagreement:An EssayonReasoning inHumanistic Disciplines.Rashtrapati Nivas, Shimla: Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 1993. Pp. x + 2~1. Cloth, Rs 2o. Dorter, Kenneth. Form and Good in Plato's Eleatic Dialogues:The Parmenides, Theaetetus,Sophist, and Statesman. Berkeley: Universityof California Press, 1994. Pp. x + 256. Cloth, $45.oo. Drury, Shadia B. Alexandre Koj~e: The Roots of PostmodernPolitics. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. Pp. xii + 274. Cloth, $45.oo. Paper, $19.95. Edel, Abraham. Critique of Applied Ethics: Reflections and Recommendations. Philadelphia: Temple UniversityPress, 1994. Pp. vii + 274. Cloth, $49.95. Paper, $24.95. Effertz, Dirk. Kants Metaphysik: Welt und Freiheit. Freiburg/Miinchen:Verlag Karl Alber, 1994. PP. 3o3. Paper, NP. Everson, Stephen, editor. Language. Companionsto AncientThought, 3. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress...