Book reviews

Mary T. Malone, Women and Christianity, II: The Medieval Period AD 1000–1500 (Blackrock: Columba Press, 2001), ISBN 1–85607–339–4 (pbk), 198 pp.

Nicholas Sagovsky, Ecumenism, Christian Origins and the Practice of Communion (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), ISBN 0–521–77269–9 (hbk), 221 pp.

John D. Zizioulas, Eucharist, Bishop, Church (trans. Elizabeth Theokritoff; Boston, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2001), ISBN 1–885652–43–7 (pbk).

Peter Matheson, The Imaginative World of the Reformation (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2001), ISBN 0–8006–3291–5 (pbk), xiv + 153 pp. Illus.

Carol Rittner and John K. Roth (eds.), Pope Pius XII and the Holocaust (London/NY: Leicester University Press/Continuum, 2002), ISBN 0–7185–0274–2 (pbk), 256 pp.

Paul Freston, Evangelicals and Politics in Asia, Africa and Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), ISBN 0–521–80041–2 (hbk), xiii + 344 pp.     

Book reviews

John Christian Laursen (ed.). Religious Toleration: ‘The Variety of Rites’ from Cyrus to Defoe. New York, St Martin's Press, 1999. xx + 252 pp. $45.00. ISBN 0–312–22233–5.

Daniel Garber. Descartes Embodied: Reading Cartesian Philosophy through Cartesian Science Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001, £40.00 hb; £14.95 pb. xii + 337 pp. ISBN 0–521–00337–7 pb. 0–521–80279–2 hb.

Olli Koistinen and John Biro (eds). Spinoza: Metaphysical Themes, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 255 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–512815‐X.

Paul Abela. Kant's Empirical Realism. Oxford and New York, Clarendon Press, 2002. vii + 303 pp. £40.00. ISBN 0–19–924274–7.

Bruce L. Kinzer. England's Disgrace? J. S. Mill and the Irish Question. Toronto, Buffalo, and London, University of Toronto Press, 2001. 292 pp. $60. ISBN 0–8020–4862–5.

Maria Dimova‐Cookson. T. H. Green's Moral and Political Philosophy: A Phenomenological Perspective. Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001. £40.00. xiii + 175 pp. ISBN 0–333–9144–7.

Stephen Mulhall. Inheritance &; Originality. Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Kierkegaard. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 2001. £40.00. xii + 448 pp. ISBN 0–19–924390–5.

Paul Gorner. Twentieth‐Century German Philosophy. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000. iii + 225 pp. £12.99. ISBN 0–19–289309–2.

Karen Green. Dummett: Philosophy of Language. Cambridge, Polity Press, 2001. xi + 236 pp. £55.00 (hb), £14.99 (pb). ISBN 0–7456–2294–1 (hb) 0–7456–2295‐X (pb).     

The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill

Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism Translated by Julia Annas &; Jonathan Barnes Cambridge University Press 1994 ISBN‐0–521–30950–6 Hardback (£32.50) ISBN 0–521–31205‐X Paperback (£10.95)

Republicanism, Liberty and Commercial Society 1649–1776 David Wootton (ed) Stanford University Press, 1994 viii, 497 pp. £35 ISBN 0804723567

John Marshall: John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility Cambridge University Press, 1994 Pp. xxi + 485. ISBN 0–521–44380–6 (hardback) £55 0–521–44687–3 (paperback) £22.95

Ian Harris: The Mind of John Locke: A Study of Political Theory in its Intellectual Setting Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 Pp. xv + 429. ISBN 0–521–35603–2

Lawrence E. Klein: Shaftesbury and the Culture of Politeness Cambridge University Press, xii, 217 pp. £30

Cahiers Montesquieu: Lectures de Montesquieu, Actes du Colloque de Wolfenbuttel (26–28 Octobre 1989) réunis par Edgar Mass et Alberto Postigliola Liguori Editore, Napoli; Universitas, Paris; Voltaire Foundation, Oxford, 1993. ISBN 0–7294–0462–5. £18.00

George Armstrong Kelly: The Humane Comedy: Constant, Tocqueville, and French Liberalism with a foreword by Stephen R. Graubard, Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0–521–41227–7. £35.00

Christopher J. Berry: The Idea of Luxury. A Conceptual and Historical Investigation Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 xiv + 271 pp., 0–521–466911 pbk

Sarah Gibbons: Kant's Theory of Imagination. Bridging Gaps in Judgement and Experience Oxford Philosophical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1994 pp. 205 plus x. £27.50

Andrew Brook: Kant and the Mind Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1994. pp. 327 plus xii. £35.00

The Correspondence of John Stuart Mill and Auguste Comte trans. and ed. by Oscar A. Haac New Brunswick (USA) and London: Transaction Publishers, 1995 pp. xxvi + 403. £31.95 ISBN 1–56000–148–8

Alan P. F. Sell: Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief University of Wales Press, 1995 ISBN 0–7083–1310–8. 338 pp. £35.00

Agnosticism: Contemporary Responses to Spencer and Huxley Ed. Andrew Pyle Thoemmes Press, Bristol, 1995 (Key Issues 4), pp. xxvi + 301 ISBN (paper) 1–85506–404–9 £14.95, (cloth) 1–85506–405–7 £45.00     

A reply to Cunning on the nature of true and immutable natures

The Cambridge Companion to Humanism. Jill Kraye (ed.). Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xvii + 320. £35.00 hbk, £12.95 pbk. ISBN 0–521–43038–0 (hbk), 0–521–43624–9 (pbk).

Scepticism in the History of Philosophy ‐ A Pan‐American Dialogue. Edited by Richard H. Popkin. Dordrecht‐Boston‐London, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996. pp. xxii + 285, hbk, £99.00, ISBN 0–7923–3769–7

Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe. David B. Ruderman. Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1995. pp. xi + 392. ISBN 0–300–06112–9

Pluralism and The Personality of the State. David Runciman. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp. xiv + 279. £35.00. ISBN 0521–55191–9

Gassendi et L'Europe. Edited by Sylvia Murr. Paris, Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1997. pp. 494. FF 240. ISBN 2–7116–1306–2

Nicholas Malebranche: Dialogues on Metaphysics and on Religion. Edited by Nicholas Jolley, trans. by David Scott. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1997. pp. xlii + 287.

John Locke: Anleitung des menschlichen Verstandes. Eine Abhandlung von den Wunderwerken. In der Übersetzung Königsberg 1755 von Georg David Kypke, edited by Terry Boswell, Riccardo Pozzo and Clemens Schwaiger. Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt, 1996, 2 vols., pp. xxviii + 2187pp. viii + 140. DM 186. ISBN 3–7728–1711–4

Leibniz's ‘New System’ (1695). Edited by Roger S. Woolhouse, Florence, Leo S. Olschki, 1996. pp. x + 201. ISBN 88–222–4454–0 (hbk).

Mary Astell: Political Writings. Edited by Patricia Springborg. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xlviii + 286. (hbk.) £45.00 (hbk.) £15.95 (pbk.) ISBN 0–521–41800–3 (hbk.) 0–521–42845–9 (pbk.)

Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Men and A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. xxxvii + 349. (hbk.) £35.00 (hbk.), £8.95 (pbk.) ISBN 0–521–43053–4 (hbk.) 0–521–43633–8 (pbk.)

Knud Haakonssen: Natural Law and Moral Philosophy. From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. pp. x + 386. £45.00 hbk. ISBN 0–521–49686–1. £15.95 pbk. ISBN 0–521–49802–3

Hartwig Wiedebach: Die Bedeutung der Nationalität für Hermann Cohen. Europaea Memororia. Studien und Texte zur Geschichte der europäischen Ideen. Hildesheim, Georg Olms Verlag, 1997. pp. viii + 340.     

Book reviews

The good, the bad, and the unknown: Two books on genius

MURRAY, P. (Ed.). (1989). Genius: The History of an Idea. Oxford, England: Basil Blackwell (242 pp.). ISBN 0–631–15785–9.

OCHSE, R. (1990). Before the Gates of Excellence. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (ix+300 pp.). ISBN 0–521–37557–6.

Creativity and metaphor

HAUSMAN, CARL R. (1989). Metaphor and Art: Interactionism and Reference in the Verbal and Nonverbal Arts. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press (238pp.). ISBN 0 521363853.

Manic‐depression and creativity

HERSHMAN, D. JABLOW, and LIEB, JULIAN. (1988). The Key to Genius: Manic‐Depression and the Creative Life. Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books (220 pp.). ISBN 0–87975–437–0.

Farewell to “form follows function”;

FINKE, RONALD A. (1990). Creative Imagery: Discoveries and Inventions in Visualization. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum (188 pp.). ISBN 0–8058–8058–0772–1.     

Books Received: Volume 13, Issue 2

Celia Wolf‐Devine: Descartes on Seeing: Epistemology and Visual Perception. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993 (Journal of the History of Philosophy Monograph Series), pp. viii + 121. ISBN 0–8093–1838–5.

Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan with selected variants front the Latin edition of 1668. Edited, with Introduction and Notes by Edwin Curley. Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., Indianapolis/Cambridge 1994, pp. lxxx‐584. ISBN 0–87220–178–3 (cloth), £27.95, 0–87220–177–5 (pbk), £6.95.

Allison Coudert: Leibniz and the Kabbalah. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995, pp. 218. £68.00. ISBN 0–7923–3114–1.

Richard Price: The Correspondence. [Edited by D. O. Thomas and W. Bernard Peach]. Vol. III. February 1786‐February 1791. Edited by W. Bernard Peach. (Duke U, Durham N.C. and University of Wales Press Cardiff 1994). ISBN 0–8223–1327–8.

Henry Allison: Idealism and Freedom: Essays on Kant's Theoretical and Practical Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1996. xxi + 217 pp. £30 (hbk), £10.95 (pbk). ISBN 0–521–48295‐X (hbk), 0–521–48337–9 (pbk).

Terry Pinkard: Hegel's Phenomenology: The Sociality of Reason. Cambridge University Press, 1994. 4451 pp. £40.00 hb. ISBN 0–521–45300–3.

Mary Anne Perkins: Coleridge's Philosophy, The Logos as Unifying Principle. (Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1994) pp. 310. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–824075–9.

Elzbieta Ettinger: Hannah Arendt ‐ Martin Heidegger (London, Yale University Press, 1995) £10.95 ISBN 0–300–06407–1

Dana R. Villa: Arendt and Heidegger ‐ The Fate of the Political (Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996) ISBN 0–691–04400–7     

Book reviews

Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars, Traditional Religion in England 1400–1580. New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1992, 654 pp. ISBN 0–300–053425–8.

Harvey Ferguson, Religious Transformation in Western Society: The End of Happiness. London and New York, Routledge, 1992, xvi, 269 pp. ISBN 0–415–02574–5.

Religiones Latinoamericanas 1 (Religiones: Cuestiones Tcoricometodoiogicas), Mexico City, Asociación Latinoamericana para el Estudio de las Religiones. January‐June 1991.

Revista de Estudios Budistas I, 1, Mexico City, Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Budistas. April 1991.

Koichi Shinohara and Gregory Schopen (eds), From Benares to Beijing: Essays on Buddhism and Chinese Religion. Canada, Mosaic Press, 1992, 304 pp. ISBN 0–88962–443–7.

Robert E. Buswell, Jr and Robert M. Gimello (eds), Paths to Liberation: The Mārga and its Transformations in Buddhist Thought. Honolulu: Kuroda Institute, University of Hawaii Press, 1992, ix, 525 pp.

Susan Grossman and Rivka Haut (eds), Daughters of the King: Women and the Synagogue. New York, The Jewish Publication Society, 1992, i‐340 pp. ISBN 0–8276–0395–9.

Akbar S. Ahmed, Resistance and Control in Pakistan. London, Routledge, 1991. 2nd edition, first published in 1983 under the tide Religion and Politics in Muslim Society. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, xx + 207 pp., £12.99 (paperback). ISBN 0–415–05797–3.

Garry Wills, Under God: Religion and American Politics. New York and London, Simon and Schuster, 1990, 445 pp., £17.99 (hardback), £9.99 (paperback).

J. Andrew Overman and Robert S. MacLennan (eds), Diaspora Jews and Judaism: Essays in Honor of and in Dialogue with, A. Thomas Kraabel. South Florida Studies in the History of Judaism 41, Atlanta, GA, Scholars Press, 1992, xviii + 368 pp., no price given. ISBN 1 55540 696 3.

Christine Trevett, Women and Quakerism in the 17th Century. York, Sessions Book Trust, The Ebor Pess, 1991, 171 pp.

Jan Peter Schouten, Revolution of the Mystics: On the Social Aspects of Viraiaivism. Kampcn, The Netherlands, Kok Pharos Publishing House, 1991, xiii + 331 pp. ISBN 90 242 3425 5.

Michael L. Budde, The Two Churches: Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System. Durham, NC, Duke University Press, 1992, 172 pp., £25.00. ISBN 0–8223–1229–8.

Teun Goudriaan (ed.), Ritual and Speculation in Early Tantrism: Studies in Honor of André Padoux. SUNY Series in Tantric Studies, Albany, NY, State University of New York Press, 1992, xv + 359 pp. ISBN 0–7914–0898–1.

Robert S. Shepard, God's People in the Ivory Tower: Religion in the Early American University. Brooklyn, Carlson, 1991, 174 pp. $50.00. ISBN 0–926019–56–2.     

BOOKS RECEIVED

The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza. Don Garrett (ed.). Cambridge University Press, 1996, pp. xiii, 465. ISBN 0–521–39235–7 (hb); ISBN 0–521–39865–7 (pb). £40.00 (hb) £12.95 (pb).

Spinoza: The Enduring Questions. Graeme Hunter (ed.). University of Toronto Press, 1994, pp. xviii, 182. ISBN 0–8020–2876–4. £45.00.

The Spinozistic Heresy: The Debate on the ‘Tractatus Theologico‐Politicus’. 1670–77. Paolo Cristofolini (ed.). APA‐Holland University Press: Amsterdam and Maarssen, 1995, pp. viii, 260. ISBN 90–302–1502‐X.

Disguised and Overt Spinozism around 1700. Wiep van Bunge and Wim Klever (eds.). Brill, Leiden, 1996, pp. ix, 378. ISBN 90–04–10307–4.

Part of Nature: Self‐Knowledge in Spinoza's ‘Ethics’, by Genevieve Lloyd. Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1994, pp. 182. ISBN 0–8014–2999–4. £24.95.

Spinoza and the ‘Ethics’, by Genevieve Lloyd. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks, London, 1996, pp. x, 163. ISBN 0–415–10782–2 (pb). £6.99.

Spinoza: The Way to Wisdom, by Herman de Dijn. Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1996, pp. xii, 291. ISBN 1–55753–081–5.     

ADORNO AND HORKHEIMER'S CONCEPT OF ‘ENLIGHTENMENT’

Descartes and Augustine. Stephen Menn. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. xvi + 415. £40.00. ISBN 0 521 41702 3

The Enthusiastical Concerns of Dr Henry More: Religious Meaning and the Psychology of Delusion. Daniel Fouke. E. J. Brill: Leiden, 1997. $93.50 hb. ISBN 90 04 106006

The Cambridge Companion to Kierkegaard. Edited by Alastair Hannay and Gordon D. Marino. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. xi + 428 with bibliography and index £40.00. ISBN 0–521–47151–6

Carnap's Construction of the World: The Aufbau and the Emergence of Logical Empiricism. Alan W. Richardson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1998. pp. χ + 242. £35.00 ($49.94) hb. ISBN 0 521 43008 9

An Essay on Metaphysics. R. G. Collingwood. Revised edition, edited with an introduction by Rex Martin. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998. cv + 439 pp. £48. ISBN 0–19–823–561–5

Civil Society and Fanaticism: Conjoined Histories. Dominique Colas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997. pp. xxx + 480 [orig. Le Glaive et le fléau: Généalogie du fanatisme et de la société civile. Paris, Editions Grasset &; Fasquelle, 1992]. £40.50 (US$65.00) and £14.95 (US$21.95). ISBN 0–8047–2734–1 cloth; ISBN 0–8047–2736–8 pb.     

The vicissitudes of seeing: Iconoclasm and idolatry

Alain Besançon, The Forbidden Image: An Intellectual History of Iconoclasm. Trans. by Jane Marie Todd. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2000, viii+423 pp., 32 b/w illustrations, $40.00 ISBN 0 226 04413 0.

Albert Boime, The Unveiling of the National Icons: A Plea for Patriotic Iconoclasm in a Nationalistic Era. Cambridge Studies in American Visual Culture. Cambridge, University of Cambridge Press, 1998, xvii+427 pp., 86 b/w illustrations, $69.50 ISBN 0 521 57067 0.

Richard H. Davis, Lives of Indian Images. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1997, xiii+ 331 pp., 50 b/w illustrations, $55.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 691 02622 X, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 691 00520 6.

Dario Gamboni, The Destruction of Art: Iconoclasm and Vandalism Since the French Revolution. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1997, 416 pp., 151 b/w illustrations, $45.00 ISBN 0 300 07170 1.

Gerald R. Hawting, The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam: From Polemic to History. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999, xvii+ 168 pp., $54.95 ISBN 0 521 65165 4.

Kenneth Mills, Idolatry and Its Enemies: Colonial Andean Religion and Extirpation, 1640–1750. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, xiii+337 pp., 9 b/w illustrations, $69.50 ISBN 0 691 02979 2.     

BOLZANO'S GESAMTAUSGABE

William Of Ockham Quodlibetal Questions Vols. 1 and 2 translated by Alfred J. Freddoso and Francis E. Kelley, Yale University Press 1991. ISBN 0–300–04832–7 (set)

The Philosophical Writings of Descartes Vol. III: The Correspondence trans. by J. Cottingham, R. Stoothoff, D. Murdoch and A. Kenny Cambridge University Press, 1991, xviii + 412 pp

Cartesian Method and the Problem of Reduction by Emily R. Grosholz, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1991. viii + 161 pp

Cartesian Logic: An Essay on Descartes's Conception of Inference by Stephen Gaukroger, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1989. viii + 145 pp

La philosophie d'Antoine Arnauld by A. R. Ndiaye, Paris: J. Vrin, 1991. 376 pp

Stuart Brown, ed. Nicolas Malebranche: His Philosophical Critics and Successors Assen: Van Gorcum, 1991, 173 pp

The Equality of the Sexes by François Poulain de la Barre, Classics of Philosophy and Science, translated with an introduction and notes by Desmond M. Clarke, Manchester University Press: Manchester and New York, 1990, pp. 149, £35.00

Expérience et Raison: les Fondements de la Morale selon Locke by J. M. Vienne, Paris, Vrin, 1991, 298 pp

Rezension der Schrift: ‘Britische Gassendi‐Rezeption am Beispiel John Lockes’ von Rolf W. Puster, (Quaestiones. Themen und Gestalten der Philosophie 3), Friedrich Frommann Verlag. Stuttgart‐Bad Cannstatt 1991 (168 Seiten)

The Light of the Soul Theories of Ideas in Leibniz, Malebranche and Descartes by Nicholas Jolley, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990. pp. x + 209

The New Art of Autobiography: An Essay On the Life of Giambattista Vico Written by Himself by Donald Phillip Verene, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. pp. xi + 263. Price £30.00

The Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant, trans. Mary Gregor, Cambridge University Press, 1992, £30.00 h/b, £10.95 pb

Kant and his Influence ed. by G. MacDonald Ross and T. McWalter, Bristol: Thoemmes, 1990. pp. xv + 374. £40.00

Menachem Fisch William Whewell: Philosopher of Science Oxford: Clarendon Press (Oxford University Press), 1991. pp. xiv + 220. £30. ISBN 0 19 824240 9

Bradley: A Research Bibliography by Richard Ingardia. Bowling Green, Ohio: Philosophy Documentation Center, 1991. pp. 195. US$35. ISBN 0–912632–88–7

Russell's Idealist Apprenticeship by Nicholas Griffin, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991. pp. xiv + 410. Price £45.00     

Book reviews

Arvind Sharma, The Philosophy of Religion and Advaita Vedānra: A Comparative Study in Religion and Reason. University Park, Pennsylvania, The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995, viii+232 pp., £29.50, $32.50. ISBN 0 271 01032 0.

Niels C. Nielsen Jr (ed.), Christianity After Communism: Social, Political and Cultural Struggle in Russia. Boulder, Westview Press, 1994, ix+171 pp., £37.00, $49.95. ISBN 0 8133 2365 7.

Mary Pickering, Auguste Comte: An Intellectual Biography, Volume 1, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993, xi+744 pp., £45.00, $49.95. ISBN 0 521 43405 X.

Christopher Herbert, Culture and Anomie: Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1991, 312 pp., $48 (hardback) ISBN 0 1226 32738 8, $16.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 32738 6.

Clifford Geertz, After the Fact: Two Countries, Four Decades, One Anthropologist. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1995, 198 pp., $27.50. ISBN 0 674 00871 5.

William Hamilton, A Quest for the Post-Historical Jesus. New York, Continuum, 1994, 304 pp., $27.50. ISBN 0 8264 0641 6.

Valerie J. Hoffman, Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt. University of South Carolina Press, 1995, 377 pp.+ notes and index. ISBN 1 57003 055 3.

Margaret H. Case (ed.), Heinrich Zimmer: Coming Into His Own. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1994, vi+ 148 pp., $24.95. ISBN 0 691 03337 4.

Tessa J. Bartholomeusz, Women Under the Bō Tree: Buddhist Nuns in Sri Lanka. (Cambridge Studies in Religious Traditions 5.) Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, xx+284 pp., £37.50, $59.95. ISBN 0 521 46129 4.

Philip C. Almond, Heaven and Hell in Enlightenment England. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1994, xiii+ 218 pp., £35. ISBN 0 521 45371 2.

George W. Stocking, Jr., After Tylor: British Social Anthropology 1888–1951. Madison, University of Wisconsin Press, London, Athlone Press, 1996, xx+441 pp., $40. ISBN 0 485 30072 9.

P. F. Kornicki and I. J. McMullen (eds), Religion in Japan: Arrows to Heaven and Earth. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996, xxv+315 pp., £40. ISBN 0 521 55028 9.

Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1081–1261. 605 pp., $89.95 (cloth). ISBN 0521 26432 4.

David Nirenberg, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996, ix+301 pp., $29.95, £23.95. ISBN 0 691 03375 7.     

Recent books

Abstract

Niedenthal, P.M., & Kitayama, S. (Eds.). (1994). The heart's eye: Emotional influences in perception and attention. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–410560–2. 289pp. $55.00

MacKinnon, N.J. (1994). Symbolic interactionism as affect control. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. ISBN 0–7914–2042–6 (pbk). 245pp. $19.95.

Cuthbertson-Johnson, B., Franks, D.D., & Doman, M. (Eds.) (1994). The sociology of emotions: An annotated bibliography. New York Garland Publishing. ISBN 0–8240–2321–8. 222pp. $37.00

Flanagan, O., & Rorty, A.O. (Eds.) (1990). Identity_; character and morality: Essays in moral psychology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 0–262–56074–7 (pbk). 487pp. $18.50.

Mackie, D.M., 8 Hamilton D.L. (Eds.) (1993). Affect, cognition, and stereotyping: interactive processes in group perception. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–46441–0–4. 389pp. $59.95

Dobson, K.S., & Kendall, P.C. (Eds.) (1993). Psychopethology and cognition. San Diego, CA: Academic Press. ISBN 0–12–404175–2. 492pp. $49.95.

Graham, G., & Stephens, G.L. (Eds.) (1994). Philosophical psychopathology. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. ISBN 0–262–07159–2. 332pp. $34.95.     

Book review

Raison et déraison d'État. Théoriciens et theories de la raison d'État aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles sous la direction de Yves Charles Zarka Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1994 pp. 436, 248 FF. ISBN 9–782130–461616.

Beverly C. Southgate: ’Covetous of Truth’: The Life and Work of Thomas White, 1593–1676 Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993. 189 pp. £60.00 ISBN 0–7923–1926–5

George Dicker: Descartes: An Analytical and Historical Introduction Oxford University Press, 1993 (248 pp.) £14.95 pbk. ISBN 0–19–507590–0

Theo Verbeek: Descartes and the Dutch: Early Reactions to Cartesian Philosophy, 1637–1650. Carbondale and Edwardsville, Southern Illinois University Press, 1992, x + 168 pp. $30.00 ISBN 0–8093–1617‐X

David Berman: George Berkeley: Idealism and the Man Oxford University Press, 1994. £27.50 ISBN 0–19–826746–0

Joseph Mali: The Rehabilitation of Myth: Vico's New Science Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. pp. xv + 275. £35.00 ISBN 0–521–41952–2

R. C. Solomon and K. W. Higgins (eds): The Age of German Idealism Routledge: London, 1993. Pp. 408. £55.00 (hbk) ISBN 0–415–05604–7

T. L. S. Sprigge: James and Bradley: American Truth and British Reality Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, 1993 Pp. xiv + 630. $66.95 (hbk), $29.95 (pbk). ISBN 0–8126–9227–6 (pbk)

A. W. Moore: The Infinite Routledge, London and New York (1990). First published in paperback, 1991. xiv + 268 pp., £10.99 ISBN 0–415–07048–1     

Notices

Islamic Creeds: a selection. W. M. Watt (Trans), 1994. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 107 pp., hb. £30.00, ISBN 0–7486–0522–3; pb., ISBN 0–7486–0513–4.

The Ninety‐Nine Beautiful Names of God, al‐maqsad al‐asna, ftshark asma’ alldh al‐husnd. Abo Hamid Al‐Ghazau, Translated with notes by David B. Burreix and Nazih. Daher, 1992. Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society. x + 205 pp., hb. £25.95; pb. £11.95, ISBN 0–946621–31–1.

Jews, Visigoths and Muslims in Medieval Spain: cooperation and conflict. Norman Roth, 1994. Leiden/New York/Koln, E. J. Brill. 367 pp., hb. Gld.l 15.00/865.75, ISBN 90–04–09971–9.

Pious Passenger: the hajj in earlier times. M. N. Pearson, 1994. London, Hurst & Co. 217 pp., hb. £32.50, ISBN 1–85065–217–1.

Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo. Boaz Shoshan, 1993. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 148 pp., hb. £27.95, ISBN 0–521–43209‐X.

Byzantium and the Early Islamic Conquests. Walter E. Kaegi, 1992. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 313 + xiii pp., hb. n.p., ISBN 0–521–41172–6.

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The rediscovery of philosophy in emotion

Abstract

Reviews of The Rationality of Emotion by Ronald de Soma. Cambridge, Mass. and London: M.I.T. Press (1987), pp. 333. ISBN 0-262-04092-1, £22.50, $25 The Structure of Emotions: Investigations in Cognitive Philosophy by Robert M. Gordon. Cambridge University Press (1987), pp. 155. ISBN 0-521-33164-1, £22.50, $29.95