Recent books

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B15: Buck, R. (1988). Human motivation and emotion (2nd edn). New York: John Wiley &; Sons. ISBN 0–471–89705–1, 586+94pp, £33.25/$51.55; £13.95/$23.95

B16: Wagner, H. L. (Ed.) (1988). Social psychophysiology and emotion: Theory and clinical applications. Chichester and New York: John Wiley &; Sons. ISBN 0–471–91266–2, 311pp, £36.50/$77.50

B17: Greenberg, L. S. &; Safran, J. D. (1987). Emotion in psychotherapy. New York, Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–010–4, 338 pp, $43.20/£24.95     

Democratizing technology?

Democracy and Technology, by Richard E. Sclove, New York: Guilford Press, 338 pages, $18.95/£14.50 pb; $42.00/£32.50 cloth: available in UK from Afterhurst Ltd, c/o Direct Distribution, 27 Church Road, Hove, East Sussex BN3 2FA.     

Recent books

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Eisenberg, N. and Strayer, J. (Ed 4 (1987). Empathy and its development. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-326095, 406 pp., £35.00/$54.50.

Wolff, P. H. (1987). The development of behavioral states and the expression of emotions in early infancy: New proposals for investigation. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0-226-90520-9, 291 pp., £25.95/$37.50.

Greenspan, Patricia S. (1988). Emotions and reasons: An inquiry into emotional justification. New York and London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-90049-2, 197 pp., £30.00/$30.00     

Recent books

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Guidano, V. F. (1987). Complexity of the self: A developmental approach to psychopathology and therapy. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–012–0, 248 pp, £19.95/$35.95

Hamilton, V., Bower, G. H., & Frijda, N. H. (Eds) (1988). Cognitive perspectives on emotion and motivation. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 90–247–3694–3, 453 pp, £64.00/$114.00

Scherer, K. R. (Ed.) (1988). Facets of emotion: Recent research. Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc. ISBN 0–8058–0141–3, 267 pp, £27.50/ $46.95; pbk, ISBN 0–8058–0142–1, £17.00/$29.50

Ciompi, L. (1988). The psyche and schizophrenia: A bond between affect and logic. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0–674–71990–5, 327 pp, £27.95

Horowitz, M. J. (Ed.) (1988). Psychodynamics and cognition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 0–226–35368–0, 389 pp, £21.95

Hannover, B. (1988). Evaluation of performance: A judgmental approach. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0–387–96768–0, 164 pp.

Alloy, L. B. (1988). Cognitive processes in depression. New York, Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–706–0, 388 pp, $52.00/£30.50

Barlow, D. H. (1988). Anxiety and its disorders: The nature and treatment of anxiety and panic. New York, Guilford Press. ISBN 0–89862–720–6, 698 pp, $51.50/£38     

Book reviews

Islam and Politics in Central Asia by M. Haghayeghi. London: Macmillan, 1995, 264 pp.

Empire's Edge: Travels in South‐Eastern Europe, Turkey and Central Asia by Scott Malcomson. Boston USA and London: Faber and Faber, 1994, 256 pp. Paperback, £8.99.

The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or Nationalism by Ahmed Rashid. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994, x+278 pp. Hardback, £36.95, $59.95; Paperback, £14.95, $25.00.

Pride of Small Nations: The Caucasus and Post‐Soviet Disorder by Suzanne Golden‐berg. London and New Jersey: Zed Books, 1994. xvi+233 pp. Hardback, £36.95, $55.00; Paperback, £14.95, $22.50.

The North Caucasus Barrier: the Russian Advance towards the Muslim World edited by M. Bennigsen Broxup. London: Hurst, 1992, xvii+252 pp. Hardback. Paperback, 1996, £14.95.     

Derrida,Negative Theology and the Trespass of the Sign

Kevin Hart, The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and Philosophy. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, xii + 292 pp., $64.95, £37.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 35481 1, $19.95, £13.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 521 42382 1.

Harold Coward and Toby Forshay (eds), Derrida and Negative Theology. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1992, xii + 337 pp., $16.95 ISBN 0 7914 0964 3.     

Biotechnology and legitimacy

Contested Technology: Ethics, Risk and Public Debate, edited by Rene von Schomberg, Tilburg: International Centre for Human and Public Affairs, 1995, £19/$29 pb.     

Recent books

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Tomkins, S.S. (1992). Affect, imagery and consciousness, Vol. IV: Cognition: Duplication and transformation of information. New York: Springer Publishing Company. $58.00

Winograd, E. & Neisser, U. (Eds) (1992). Affect and accuracy in recall: Studies of “Flashbulb Memories”. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-40188-7, 315 pp, £30.00, $44.95

Susmon, E.J., Feagans, L.V., & Ray, W.J. (1992). Emotion, cognition, health and development in children and adolescents. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ISBN 0-8058-0548-6, 183 pp, £27.95, $49.95

Amsel, A. (1992). Frustration theory: An analysis of dispositional learning and memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-24784-5, 278 pp, £35.00, $64.95

Costello, C.G. (Ed.) (1993). Symptoms of depression. Chichester: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-54304-7 (hbk), 376 pp, £29.95, $54.95     

A ptolemaic theory of emotion

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A review of The Emotions by Nico H. Frijda (1986). Cambridge and Pans: Cambridge University Press and Maison

des Sciences de l'Hornme, pp. 544, £35.00, $59.50 ISBN 0-521-30155-6 (hbk); £12.95, $17.95 ISBN 0-521-31600-6 (Pbk)     

The rediscovery of philosophy in emotion

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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     

Recent books

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Strongman, K. T. (1987). The psychology of emotion. (3rd edn). New York: John Wiley. ISBN 0-471-91 143-7191433-9, 277pp. £50.30/$29.50.

Fisher, Shirley (1986). Stress and strategy. London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Ltd. ISBN 0-86377-031 4035-5 (pbk), 272pp, $35, £19.951 $15.79, £28.95 (pbk).

Brown, R. (1987). Analyzing love. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-34038-1, 733pp, $24.95, £19.50.     

Critical Notices

Possessed by Concepts

A Study of Concepts By Christopher Peacocke MIT Press, 1992. Pp. x + 266. ISBN 0–262–161338. £24.95.

Morality, ethics and ‘postmetaphysical thinking: new books by Jürgen Habermas

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere. An Enquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society Polity Press, 1992, Pp.300, ISBN 0–7456–1077–3. £35/11.95.

Moral Consciousness and Communicative Action Polity Press, 1992. Pp. 280. ISBN 0–7456–1104–4. £29.50.

Postmetaphysical Thinking. Philosophical Essays Polity Press, 1992. Pp. 200. ISBN 0–7456–0734–9. £29.50.

Justification and Application. Remarks on Discourse Ethics Polity Press, 1993. Pp. 192. ISBN 0–7456–0143–9. £35/11.95.

Shame and Necessity By Bernard Williams University of California Press, 1993. Pp. xii + 254. ISBN 0–520–08046–7. $25.     

Reviews

Books reviewed: William C. Placher, Jesus the Savior: The Meaning of Jesus Christ for Christian Faith. Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2001, 230pp. £15.99 Telford Work, Living and Active: Scripture in the Economy of Salvation. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans, 2002, xx + 343pp. $ 35.00 Herbert Boyd McGonigle, Sufficient Saving Grace, John Wesley's Evangelical Arminianism. Carlisle: Paternoster Press, 2001, 331pp. £24.95 Robert L. Perkins, ed., The Concept of Irony, International Kierkegaard Commentary (Volume 2). Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2001, 427pp. $35.00 Stephen R. Holmes, Listening to the Past: The Place of Tradition in Theology. Carlisle: Paternoster Press/ Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2002, 164pp. £14.99 Alan G. Padgett, Science and the Study of God: A Mutuality Model for Theology and Science. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, xiv + 218pp. £15.99 pb. Graham Redding, Prayer and the Priesthood of Christ in the Reformed Tradition. London: T. & T. Clark, A Continuum Imprint, 2003, vi + 324pp. £30.00 Paul Louis Metzger, The Word of Christ and the World of Culture: Sacred and Secular through the Theology of Karl Barth. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2003, 252pp. $38.00 / £27.99 Kilian McDonnell, The Other Hand of God: The Holy Spirit as the Universal Touch and Goal. Collegeville, Minnesota: Liturgical Press, 2003, 270pp. $24.95 John Inge, A Christian Theology of Place. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, ix + 161pp., £45.00 hb., £15.99 pb. Michael Lodahl, God of Nature and of Grace: Reading the World in a Wesleyan Way. Nashville: Kingswood Books Abingdon Press, 2003, 254pp. £24.99 Oswald Bayer, Vernunft ist Sprache: Hamanns Metakritik Kants. Stuttgart: Frommann‐Holzboog, 2002, xiv + 504pp. ∈ 128.00 Matthew Levering, Scripture and Metaphysics: Aquinas and the Renewal of Trinitarian Theology. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004, x + 254pp. £55 hb., £19.99 pb. John Webster, Holy Scripture: A Dogmatic Sketch. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, 144pp. £32.50 hb., £10.95 pb.     

Hormone Moralities

In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power, by Shoshana Zuboff, Basic Books, 1988, 496 pages, hb £14.95/$19.95, pb £8.95/$11.95.     

Notions of Destiny in Women's Self-Construction

Robert K. C. Forman, Mysticism, Mind, Consciousness. Albany, State University of New York Press, 1999, x+214 pp., $49.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4169 5, $16.96 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4170 9.

Deborah F. Sawyer and Diane M. Collier (eds), Is There a Future for Feminist Theology? Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1999, 210 pp., £35.00, $57.50 (hardback) ISBN 1 85075 963 4, £14.95, $24.75 (paperback) ISBN 1 85075 979 0.

Adnan Aslan, Religious Pluralism in Christian and Islamic Philosophy: The Thought of John Hick and Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Richmond, Curzon, 1998, £45.00 ISBN 0 7007 1025 6.

Carol S. Anderson, Pain and its Ending: The Four Noble Truths in the Theravada Buddhist Canon. Richmond, Curzon, 1999, xi+255 pp., £40.00 ISBN 0 7007 1065 5.

Michael P. Morrisey, Consciousness and Transcendence: The Theology of Eric Voegelin. Notre Dame, IN, University of Notre Dame Press, 1994, xiii+334 pp., $41.95 ISBN 0 268 00793 4.

Robert A. Segal, Theorizing About Myth. Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999, $50.00 (hardback) ISBN 1 55849 194 5, $15.95 (paperback) ISBN 1 55849 191 0.

Eleanor Abdella Doumato, Getting God's Ear: Women, Islam, and Healing in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. New York, Columbia University Press, 2000, xiv+312 pp. $45.00, £28.50 (hardback) ISBN 0231 11666 7, $18.50, £12.00 (paperback) ISBN 0231 11667 5.

Thomas A. Carlson, Indiscretion: Finitude and the Naming of God. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, xiv+307 pp., $45.00, £35.95 (hardback) ISBN 0226 09293 3, $18.00, £14.50 (paperback) ISBN 0226 09294 1.

Harold D. Roth, Original Tao: Inward Training and the Foundations of Taoist Mysticism. New York, Columbia University Press, 1999, xvii+294 pp., $29.50, £19.00 ISBN 0231 11564 4.     

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     

Book reviews

Enlightenment East and West Leonard Angel, 1994 Albany, State University of New York Press 388 pp.

Visions of Power: Imagining Medieval Japanese Buddhism Bernard Faure, trans, by Phyius Brooks, 1996 Princeton, Princeton University Press 329 pp.

Pāli Buddhism. Curzon Studies in Asian Philosophy Frank J. Hoffman & Deegaixe Mahinda (Eds), 1996 Richmond, Curzon Press xiii + 233 pp., ISBN 0 7007 0359 4, hb £40

Friendship East and West: philosophical perspectives Oliver Leaman (Ed.), 1996 Richmond UK, Curzon Press ix + 288 pp., ISBN 0 7007 0358 6, hb £40

Heidegger's Hidden Sources: East Asian Influences on his work Reinhard May, trans, by GRAHAM PARKES, 1996 London, Routledge xviii+ 121 pp., hb £35.00, pb £11.99

The Social Self in Zen and American Pragmatism Steve Odin, 1996 Albany, SUNY Press xvi + 482 pp., ISBN 0 9714 2492 8, pb $24.95

The Art of living. Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions Crispin Sartwell, 1995 Albany, State University of New York Press xiv+ 163 pp., hb

East‐West Encounters in Philosophy and Religion Ninian Smart & B. Srinivasa Murthy (Eds), 1997 London, Sangam Books xxiii + 411 pp., ISBN 0 8613 2375 0, hb £24.95

Confucianism and Christianity: a comparative study of Jen and Agape Xinzhong Yao, 1996 Brighton, Sussex Academic Press viii+ 164 pp., ISBN 1 8987 2325 7, hb £35 and $55     

Ethics and Selfhood: A Critique

Connectionism: Debates on Psychological Explanation, Volume Two Edited by Cynthia Macdonald and Graham Macdonald Blackwell, 1995. Pp. xvii + 424. ISBN 0–631–19744–3. £50.00 (hbk). ISBN 0–631–19745–1 £16.99 (pbk).

New books on the philosophy of religion

Divine Hiddenness and Human Reason By J.L. Schellenberg, Cornell University Press, 1993. Pp. 217. ISBN 0–8014–2792–4. $36.50 (hbk).

Reason and the Heart By William J. Wainwright, Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 160. ISBN 0–8014–3139–5. $28.50 (hbk).

The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith Edited by Thomas D. Senor, Cornell University Press, 1995. Pp. 291. ISBN 0–8014–3127–1. $39.95 (hbk).     

Book reviews

Scientific Discovery A. Kantorovich 1993 New York, State University of New York Press $17.95

A Model of the Universe Storrs McCall, 1994 Clarendon Press, Oxford 288pp. plus 15pp. appendices, plus 14pp. references plus index 0198240538 £30.00

Explanation David Hillel Ruben (ed. 1993) Oxford University Press pp vi + 365 ISBN 019875129X. Pb £9.95, Hb £27.50