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.     

Books Received

God in the Act of Reference: Debating Religious Realism and Non-Realism, Erica Appelros. Ashgate New Thinking in Theology and Biblical Studies. Aldershot, UK/ Burlington, USA/Singapore/Sydney: Ashgate, 2002, vii + 212 pp., £40.00.

Daniel Dennett, Andrew Brook and Don Ross (eds). Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii + 302 pp., $60.00, pb. $20.00.

Solomon Maimon: Monism, Skepticism, and Mathematics, Meir Buzaglo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002, xiii + 168 pp., $32.50.

Catholic Social Teaching 1891-Present: A Historical Theological and Ethical Analysis, Charles E. Curran. Moral Traditions. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, ix + 261 pp., $49.95, £37.00, pb. $19.95, £15.00.

Man Made God: The Meaning of Life, Luc Ferry. Trans. David Pellauer. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, iv + 172 pp., pb. $14.00, £9.00.

Contexts of Justice: Political Philosophy beyond Liberalism and Communitarianism, Rainer Forst. Trans. John Farrell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002, xii + 346 pp., $55.00/£37.95, pb. $22.50/£15.95.

Social Epistemology, 2nd ed., Steve Fuller. Bloomington/Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xxxi + 314 pp., $49.95, pb. $21.95.

Toleration as Recognition, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, vii + 242 pp., $60.00.

Descartes' System of Natural Philosophy, Stephen Gaukroger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii + 258 pp., $60.00, pb. $22.00.

Introduction to Logic, Henry J. Gensler. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 399 pp., $80.00, pb. $24.95, £15.99.

History and Illusion in Politics, Raymond Geuss. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, viii + 175 pp., $55.00, pb. $19.00.

Morality and the Human Goods: An Introduction to Natural Law Ethics, Alfonso GomezLobo. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, xvii + 142 pp., pb. $17.95, £13.50.

Practical Reasoning in a Social World: How We Act Together, Keith Graham. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi + 202 pp., $55.00.

Sustaining Loss: Art and Mournful Life, Gregg M. Horowitz. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xv + 239 pp., $49.50, pb. $19.95.

The Myth of Morality, Richard Joyce. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 249 pp., $60.00.

Intimate Revolt: The Powers and Limits of Psychoanalysis, vol. 2, Julia Kristeva. Trans. Jeanine Herman. European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, vii + 291 pp., $32.50, £22.50.

Philosophical Reflections, Abdul Lathief. Keralam. India: Mulberry Publications, 2002, 164 pp., no price given.

Philosophy, Music and Emotion, Geoffrey Madell. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, vii + 162 pp., £40.00.

Rule-Following and Meaning, Alexander Miller and Crispin Wright (eds). Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, x + 302 pp., £45.00, pb. £16.95.

Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor, Gregory Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, viii + 228 pp., $55.00.

The Idea of a Catholic University, George Dennis O'Brien. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, ix + 239 pp., $28.00, £18.00.

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, VaI Plum wood. Environmental Philosophies. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vii + 291 pp., $75.00, pb. $21.95.

Logical Form and Language, Gerhard Preyer and Georg Peter (eds). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, x + 512 pp., £55.00, pb. £19.99.

Patriotism, Igor Primoratz (ed.). Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 2002, 298 pp., pb. $29.00.

Man as a Moral Agent in Aristotle, Marten Ringbom. Acta Philosophical Fennica 70 (2002). Helsinki: Societas Philosophical Fennica, 2002, 197 pp., no price given

The Site of the Social: A Philosophical Account of the Constitution of Social Life and Change, Theodore R. Schatzki. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania University Press, 2002, xxii + 295 pp., $45.00.

Robert Nozick, David Schmidtz (ed.). Contemporary Philosophy in Focus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 230 pp., $60.00, pb. $20.00.

Lives of Things, Charles E. Scott. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington/ Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, ix + 196 pp. $49.95, pb. $19.95.

The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Adam Smith. Ed. Knud Haakonssen. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xxxi + 411 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00.

Scheler's Ethical Personalism: Its Logic, Development, and Promise, Peter H. Spader. Perspectives in Continental Philosophy 25. Bronx, NY: Fordham University Press, 2002, xviii + 327 pp., $45.00, pb. $20.00.

Routledge Philosophy Guidebook to Hegel and The Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Stern. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xviii + 234 pp., $55.00, pb. $14.95.

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction, 2nd ed., Anne Thomson. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 209 pp., $65.00, pb. $20.95.

Philosophers in Conversation: Interviews from The Harvard Review of Philosophy, S. Phineas Upham (ed.). London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xv + 189 pp., no price given.

Being after Rousseau: Philosophy and Culture in Question, Richard L. Velkley. Chicago/ London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, x +192 pp., $40.00, £25.00, pb. $18.00, £11.50.

Leo Strauss: The Early Writings (1921-1932), trans. and ed. Michael Zank. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xix + 238 pp., $68.50, pb. $22.95.     

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.     

Response to the critiques of ‘“fundamentalism” Christian and Islamic’ by Bruce Lawrence and Azim Nanji

Alicia Suskin Ostriker, The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions. New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University Press, 1994, xv + 260 pp. ISBN 0 8135 2125 4.

Daniel Pals, Seven Theories of Religion. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996, vii + 294 pp., $19.95 (hardback) ISBN 0 19 508724 0, $13.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 508725 9.

Grady Scott Davis, Warcraft and the Fragility of Virtue: An Essay in Aristotelian Ethics. Moscow, Idaho, University of Idaho Press, 1992, x+196 pp., $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 8930 1 1541.

Dale F. Eickelman and James Piscatori, Muslim Politics. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1996, xi+235 pp., $39.50, £33.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 691 03184 3, $13.95, £10.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 691 00870 1.

Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics. Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996, xii+285 pp., $32.95 ISBN 0 8018 5297 8.     

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.     

Allegations of sexual abuse in Satanic rituals

H. L. Seneviratne. The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1999, xvi+358 pp., $49 (hardback) ISBN 0 226 74865 0, $22 (paperback) ISBN 0 226 74866 9.

Michael W. Myers. Brahman: A Comparative Theology. Richmond, Curzon, 2001, xiii+268 pp., £45 ISBN 0 7007 1257 7.

Todd T. Lewis, in collaboration with Subarna Man Tuladhar and Labh Ratna Tuladhar. Popular Buddhist Texts from Nepal: Narratives and Rituals of Newar Buddhism. Foreword by Gregory Schopen. Albany, State University of New York Press, 2000, xviii+236 pp., $59.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4611 5, $19.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4612 3.

Walter Burkett. Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001, xiv+110 pp., $28.00, £18.00 ISBN 0 226 08085 4.

Text by Massoud Fourouzandeh and Alain Brunet. Photos by Abbas Tahvildar. Baptists of Iran. Les baptistes d'Iran. Tehran, Key Press, 2001, 173 pp. (with 5 pages in Farsi), n.p. ISBN 964 90645 5 9.     

Books Received

(Inclusion in this list does not preclude a subsequent review discussion.)

Habermas and Pragmatism, ed. Mitchell Aboulafia, Myra Bookman, and Catherine Kemp. London/New York: Routledge: 2002, xi + 244 pp., pb. £15.99.

Wittgenstein, Rules and Institutions, David Bloor. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xvi + 173 pp., pb. £17.99.

What Ought I to Do?: Morality in Kant and Levinas, Catherine Chalier. Trans. Jane Marie Todd. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, 197 pp., $45.00, pb. $17.95.

Social and Political Philosophy: A Contemporary Introduction, John Christman. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 248 pp., £12.99, $20.95.

Paradoxes from A to Z, Michael Clark. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xi + 218 pp., no price given.

Suspensions of Perception: Attention, Spectacle, and Modern Culture, Jonathan Crary. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001, 397 pp., $45.00, pb. $22.95.

Heidegger's Concept of Truth, Daniel Dahlstrom. Modern European Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xxx + 462 pp., $60.00.

A Politics of Impossible Difference: The Later Work of Luce Irigaray, Penelope Deutscher. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2002, ix + 228 pp., $39.95, pb. $17.95.

A History of Irish Thought, Thomas Duddy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xviii + 362 pp., pb., no price given.

Religious Conviction in Liberal Politics, Christopher Eberle. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 405 pp., $75.00, pb. $28.00.

The Philosophy of Nature: A Guide to the New Essentialism, Brian Ellis. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, v + 185 pp., £40.00, pb. £12.95.

Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives, H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Mark J. Cherry (eds). Clinical Medical Ethics. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002, x + 331 pp., pb. $39.95, £29,75.

A Parting of the Ways: Carnap, Cassirer, and Heidegger, Michael Friedman. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court Publishing Co., 2000, xv + 175 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

The Unity of Knowledge and Action: Toward a Non-Representational Theory of Knowledge, Warren G. Frisina. SUNY Series in Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xiii + 262 pp., $71.50, pb. $22.95.

The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, Richard M. Gale (ed.). Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, viii + 348 pp., £60.00, pb. £17.99.

The Search for Certainty: A Philosophical Account of Foundations of Mathematics, Marcus Giaquinto. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, xi +286 pp., £35.00.

Forgiveness and Revenge, Trudy Govier. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 205 pp., pb. £13.99.

Anaximander and the Architects: The Contributions of Egyptian and Greek Architectural Technologies to the Origins of Greek Philosophy, Robert Hahn. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001, xxiii + 326 pp., $81.50, pb. $28.95.

Stanley Cavell: Skepticism, Subjectivity, and the Ordinary, Espen Hammer. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, xiv + 199 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality, Robert A. Hinde. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiv + 241, pb. no price given.

The Divine Attributes, Joshua Hoffman and Gary S. Rosenkrantz. Exploring the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2002, xi + 204 pp., £50.00, pb. £15.99.

The Letters of George Santayana, Book Three 1921-1927, ed. William Holzberger. The Works of George Santayana. Vol. V. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002, Ixviii + 512 pp., $55.00.

Theoretical Philosophy After 1781, Immanuel Kant. The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant. Ed. Henry Allison and Peter Heath. Trans. Gary Hatfield and Michael Friedman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiii + 530 pp., $95.00.

Kant's Search for the Supreme Principle of Morality, Samuel J. Kerstein. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xiv + 226 pp., $60.00.

Skepticism: The Central Issues, Charles Landesman. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 2002, x + 210 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Derrida and Husserl: The Basic Problem of Phenomenology, Leonard Lawlor. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xii + 286 pp., $49.95, pb. $19.95.

Richard Rorty, Alan Malachowski. Philosophy Now. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, xxi + 202 pp., £40.00, pb. £12.95.

The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics, George Marcus. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2002, viii + 171 pp., $45.00, pb. $19.95.

The Unconscious Abyss: Hegel's Anticipation of Psychoanalysis, Jon Mills. SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2002, xv + 261 pp., $73.50, pb. $24.95.

The Phenomenology Reader, Dermot Moran and Timothy Mooney (eds), London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 614 pp.

Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Richard Moran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, xxxv + 202 pp., pb. $16.95.

On Film, Stephen Mulhall. Thinking in Action. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, v + 142pp., pb. £7.99, $12.95.

The Correspondence Theory of Truth: An Essay on the Metaphysics of Predication, Andrew Neuman. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xii + 251 pp., $60.00.

An Introduction to Philosophy, Jon Nuttall. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2002, xvii + 254 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Vico: The First New Science, Gianbattista Vico. Ed. Leon Pompa. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, Ixiv + 302 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00.

The Ethics of Aquinas, Stephen J. Pope (ed.). Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, xv + 496 pp., pb. $39.95, £29.75.

The Right and the Good, David Ross. Ed. Philip Stratton-Lake. British Moral Philosophers. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2002, Iviii + 183 pp., £40.00.

Dreaming by the Book, Elaine Scarry. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, 292 pp., pb. $18.95.

Environmental Ethics and Policy-Making, Mikael Stenmark. Ashgate Translations in Philosophy, Theology and Religion. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2002, vi + 161 pp., £37.50.

Bayes's Theorem, Richard Swinburne (ed.). Proceedings of the British Academy 113. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2002, ix + 149 pp., £17.99.

After Christianity, Gianni Vattimo. Trans. Luca D'lsanto. Italian Academy Lectures. New York: Columbia University Press, 2002, v + 156 pp., $24.50, pb. $17.00.

The Other Husserl: The Horizons of Transcendental Phenomenology, Donn Welton. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xvi + 496 pp., $54.95, pb. $29.95.

Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy, Bernard Williams. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002, xi + 328 pp., £19.95, $27.95.     

Some ambiguities in the academic study of religion

Robert Ackerman, The Myth and Ritual School: J. G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists. Theorists of Myth, Vol. 2. London, New York, Garland 1991, xii + 253 pp. $34.00, ISBN 0 8240 6249 3.

Kenneth Kraft, Eloquent Zen: Daitô and Early Japanese Zen. Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press 1992, vi + 266 pp. $34.00, ISBN 0 8248 1383 9.

Jon Davies and Isabel Wollaston (eds), The Sociology of Sacred Texts. Sheffield Academic Press, Sheffield 1993, 195 pp. £35.00/$60.00, ISBN 1850 7 54047 (cloth).

H. Eilberg‐Schwartz, The Savage in Judaism: An Anthropology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism. Bloomington, Indianapolis, Indiana University Press 1990, xii + 289 pp. ISBN 0253 20591 30.

Eugene B. Borowitz, Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew. Philadelphia, Jewish Publication Society of America 1991, xiv + 319 pp. $24.95, ISBN 0 8276 0400 9.

Jean Bottéro, Mesopotamia, Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods (translated by Z. Bohrani and M. Van de Mieroop). Chicago &; London, The University of Chicago Press 1992, xii + 311 pp. ISBN 0 226 06726 2.

Linell E. Cady, Religion, Theology, and American Public Life. Albany, State University of New York Press 1993, 202 pp. ISBN 0 7914 1303 9.

Marcus Banks, Organising Jainism in India and England. (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology), Oxford, Clarendon Press 1992, £35.00, ISBN 0 19 827388 6.

Eileen Barker, James A. Beckford and Karel Dobbelaere (eds), Secularization, Rationalism and Sectarianism. Oxford, Clarendon Press 1993, xii + 322 pp. £40.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 19 827721 0.

Irving Hexham, Texts on Zulu Religion: Traditional Zulu Ideas About God (African Studies Series, Volume 6). Lewinston, New York, The Edwin Mellen Press, 488 pp. ISBN 0 88946 181 3 (Volume 6), ISBN 0 88946 175 9 (African Studies Series).

Theresa Buckland and Juliette Wood, (eds) Aspects of British Calendar Customs. The Folklore Society Mistletoe Series 22, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press 1993, 188 pp. £11.95, ISBN 1 85075 243 5.

Allen Brent, Cultural Episcopacy and Ecumenism: Representative Ministry in Church History from the Age of Ignatius of Antioch to the Reformation. (Studies in Christian Mission ed. Marc R. Spindler). Leiden, New York, Köln, E. J. Brill 1992, i‐xiv + 250 pp. ISBN 90 04 09432 6.

Hans G. Kippenberg, Die vorderasiatischen Erlösungsreligionen in ihrem Zusammenhang mit der antiken Stadthenschafi. Heidelberger Max‐Weber‐Vorlesungen 1988. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch Wissenschaft 917, Frankfurt am Main 1991, 604 pp. DM28.00, ISBN 3 518 28517 3.

Religion, Tradition, and Renewal. Edited by Armin W. Geertz and Jeppe Sinding Jensen, Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1991, 236 pp. ISBN 87 7288 213 1.

James Miller, The Passion of Michel Foucault. New York, Simon &; Schuster 1993, 491 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0 671 69550 9.

The American Deists: Voices of Reason and Dissent in the Early Republic, introduced and edited by Kerry S. Walters. Lawrence, KA, University of Kansas Press 1992, x + 394 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0 7006 0540 1 (hardback).

Dyan Elliott, Spiritual Marriage, Sexual Abstinence in Medieval Wedlock. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1993, xv + 375 pp. ISBN 0 691 08649 4.

Charles Strozier, Apocalypse: On the Psychology of Fundamentalism in America. Boston, Beacon 1994, 316 pp. $25.00 (hbk), ISBN 0 8070 1226 2.

June Singer, A Gnostic Book of Hours: Keys to Inner Wisdom. San Francisco, Harper 1992, xxiii + 165 pp. $20.00, ISBN 0 06 250796 6.     

Book Reviews

K. T. Fann (ed.), Ludwig Wittgenstein: the man and his philosophy. New Jersey, Humanities Press; Sussex, Harvester Press: 1967 (reprinted 1978). 415 pp. 10.50.

Gerd Brand, The central texts of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Translated and with an introduction by Robert E. Innis. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1979. xxv + 182 pp. £ 10.00 (hardback)/£3.95 (paperback).

Joseph Warren Dauben. Georg Cantor: his mathematics and philosophy of the infinite. Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1979. xiii + 404 pp., 4 plts. $25 US.

S. Poggi, I sistemi dell'esperienza. Psicologia, logica e teoria della scienza da Kant a Wundt. Bologna: il Mulino, 1977.679 pp., Lit. 12.000.

Raymond Bradley and Norman Swartz, Possible Worlds. An introduction to logic and its philosophy. Indianapolis and New York; Hackett Publishing Company: Oxford; Blackwell: 1979. xxi + 391 pp. £15.00 (cloth)/£4.95 (paper).

S. Haack, Philosophy of logics. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. xiv + 276 pp. £ 13.50.

F. J. Pelletier (ed.), Mass terms: some philosophicalproblems. Dordrecht, Boston and London: Reidel, 1979. xiii + 303 pp. Dfl. 70/$34.00.

Theo A. F. Kuipers, Studies in inductive probability and rational expectation. (Synthese Library, number 123.) Dordrecht, Holland and Boston, USA.: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1978. xii + 145 pp. Dfl. 50/$22.50.     

Antoine Faivre and the Study of Esotericism

Antoine Faivre, Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism. Albany, SUNY Press, 2000, xxxv+259 pp., $73.50 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 4435 X, $24.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 4436 8.

Antoine Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism. Albany, SUNY Press, 1994, x+348 pp., $75.50. Cited as 2000 (hardback) ISBN 0 7914 2177 5, $25.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 2178 3. Cited as 1994.

Antoine Faivre, Accès de l'ésotérisme occidental, 2 vols Paris, Gallimard, 2ème éd. 1996, 377 and 437 pp., FF175 ISBN 2 07 974293 8; FF190 ISBN 2 07 074126 5.

Antoine Faivre, Philosophie de la Nature: Physique sacrée et théosophie XVIIIè–XIXè siècle. Paris, Albin Michel, 1996, 33 pp., FF150 ISBN 2 226 07627 1.

Antoine Faivre, The Eternal Hermes: From Greek God to Alchemical Magus, trans. Joscelyn Godwin. Grand Rapids, MI, Phanes Press, 1995, 201 pp., $18.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 933999 52 6. Cited as 1995a.

Antoine Faivre, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy. Albany, SUNY Press, 1993, ix+134 pp., $19.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 7914 1410 8.     

Survey article: Christianity in the People's Republic of China

Jeppe Sinding Jensen and Luther H. Martin (eds), Rationality and the Study of Religion. Acta Jutlandica LXXII: 1, Theology Series 19. Aarhus, Aarhus University Press, 1997, 221 pp., n.p., ISBN 87 7288 692 7).

Phillip Blond (ed.), Post-Secular Philosophy. London, Routledge, 1998, xiii+376 pp., £50, $85 (hardback) ISBN 0 415 09777 0, £15.99, $24.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 415 09778 9.

Peter and Linda Murray, The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1998, xii+596 pp., £15.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 19 860216 2.

Andrew Rawlinson, The Book of Enlightened Masters: Western Teachers in Eastern Traditions. La Salle, IL, Open Court, 1997, xix+650 pp., $34.95, £31.50 (paperback) ISBN 0 812 69310 8.

C. G. Jung, Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, edited and selected by Roderick Main. New York and London, Routledge, vi+177 pp., $69.95, £45 (hardback) ISBN 0 415 15509 6, (paperback) $18.95, £14.99 ISBN 0 415 15508 8.

Rosalind Hackett, Art and Religion in Africa. Religion and the Arts Series. London, Cassell, 1996, 240 pp., 113 drawings and black-and-white photographs, four colour plates, n.p. ISBN 0 304 33752 8.

Schubert M. Ogden, Is There Only One True Religion or Are There Many? Dallas, Southern Methodist University Press, 1992, iii+114 pp., $12.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 87074 329 5.

N. Ross Reat and Edmund F. Perry, A World Theology: The Central Spiritual Reality of Humankind. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1991, iii+314 pp., $65.00, £45.00 ISBN 0 521 33159 5.     

‘All over the world Jehovah's Witnesses are the touchstone for the existence of true democracy’: Persecution of a religious minority in the German Democratic Republic ∗

Land of Crosses: the Struggle for Religious Freedom in Lithuania, 1939–1978 by Michael Bourdeaux, Augustine Publishing Company, Chulmleigh, Devon, 1977, xx + 339 pp., £3.00. (Keston Book No. 12).

The Catholic Church, Dissent and Nationality in Soviet Lithuania. by V. Stanley Vardys, East European Quarterly, Boulder, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1978 xiii + 336 pp., $22.50.

Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: a Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World. by Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush,

Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Publication No. 11, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1979, xxii + 267 pp., $7.95.

The Unknown Homeland translated by Marite Sapiets, Mowbrays, London and Oxford, 1978, vii + 247 pp., £4.95 (Keston Book No. 13)

Detente and Papal‐Communist Relations, 1962–1978 by Dennis J. Dunn, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1979, 216 pp., £12.15.     

Reviews

Land of Crosses: The Struggle for Religious Freedom in Lithuania, 1939–1978 by Michael Bourdeaux, Augustine Publishing Company, Chulmleigh, Devon, 1977, xx+ 339 pp., £3.00. (Keston Book No. 12).

The Catholic Church, Dissent and Nationality in Soviet Lithuania by V. Stanley Vardys, East European Quarterly, Boulder, distributed by Columbia University Press, New York, 1978 xiii + 336 pp., $22.50.

Muslim National Communism in the Soviet Union: a Revolutionary Strategy for the Colonial World by Alexandre A. Bennigsen and S. Enders Wimbush, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Publication No. 11, University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1979, xxii + 267 pp., $7.95.

The Unknown Homeland translated by Marite Sapiets, Mowbrays, London and Oxford, 1978, vii+ 247 pp., £4.95 (Keston Book No. 13)

Detente and Papal‐Communist Relations, 1962–1978 by Dennis J. Dunn, Westview Press, Boulder, Colorado, 1979, 216 pp., £12.15.     

Books Received

Unnecessary Evil: History and Moral Progress in the Philosophy of Immanuel Kant, Sharon Ander son-Gold. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 2001, xiii +138 pp., $49.50, pb. $17.95.

Knowledge and Reference in Empirical Science, Jody Azzouni. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xi + 259 pp., $50.00.

Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings, Yuri Balashov and Alex Rosenberg (eds). Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 522 pp.

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic, Claudia Baracchi. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, ix + 249 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

Ethics in Context: The Art of Dealing with Serious Questions, Gernot Böhme. Trans. Edmund Jephcott. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, ix + 189 pp., £45.00, pb. £13.99.

The Philosophical Theory of the State and Related Essays, Bernard Bosenquet. Ed. with intro. Gerald F. Gaus and William Sweet Key Texts. Classic Studies in the History of Ideas. South Bend, IN: St Augustine's Press, 2001, xxxvii +388 pp., pb. no price given.

Belief and its Neutralization: Husserl's System of Phenomenology in Ideas I, Marcus Brainard. SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2002, xvii + 331 pp., $86.50, pb. $29.95.

The Nature of Research: Inquiry in Academic Contexts, Angela Brew. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, v + 205 pp., pb. £18.99.

Critical Thinking: A Concise Guide, Tracy Bowell and Gary Kemp. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 275 pp., (pb.) No price given.

Fodor: Language, Mind and Philosophy, M. J. Cain. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Oxford: Polity, 2002, ix + 240 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.00.

The Religious, John D. Caputo (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy. Oxford/Maiden, MA: Blackwell, 2002, xiii + 322 pp., £55.00, pb. £16.99.

101 Philosophy Problems, Martin Cohen. 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, xviii + 229 pp., pb. £8.99.

Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism, James Conant and Urszula M. Zeglen (eds). Routledge Studies in Twentieth Century Philosophy. London/New York: 2002, xii + 242 pp., £50.00.

Essay on the Origin of Human Knowledge, Etienne Bonnot de Condillac. Ed. and trans. Hans Aarsleff. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xlv + 225 pp., $59.95, pb. $21.95.

Theories of Democracy: A Critical Introduction, Frank Cunningham. Routledge Contemporary Political Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vi + 248 pp., pb. £13.99.

Self-Identity and Personal Autonomy: An Analytical Anthropology, Stefaan E. Cuypers. Ashgate New Critical Thinking in Philosophy. Aldershot/Burlington USA/Singapore/ Sydney: Ashgate, 2001, ix + 172 pp., £37.50.

Stream of Consciousness: Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience, Barry Dainton. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, xvi + 254 pp.

Kierkegaard After MacIntyre: Essays on Freedom, Narrative, and Virtue, John J. Davenport and Anthony Rudd (eds). Replies by Alasdair Maclntyre and Philip L. Quinn. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2001, xxxix + 363 pp., £47.95, pb. £22.50.

What Distinguishes Human Understanding? John Deely. South Bend, IN: St Augustine's Press, 2002, xiv + 178 pp., £17.50.

Acts of Religion, Jacques Derrida. Ed. with intro. by Gil Anidjar. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vi + 436 pp., pb. £15.99.

Religion and Media, Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber (eds). Cultural Memory in the Present. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xvii + 649 pp., $69.00, pb. $29.95.

Art and Value, George Dickie. Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, vi + 114 pp., £45.00, pb. £11.99.

Modern Philosophy from Descartes to Nietische: An Anthology, Steven M. Emmanuel and Patrick Goold (eds). Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Routledge, 2002, xvii + 525 pp.

The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell (1903-1959), Robert Enger and Lester Denonn (eds), with new intro. by John Slater. London/New York: Routledge, 1992, reissue: 2001, 736 pp., pb. $26.95.

Democracy, David Estlund (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xii + 310 pp., £55.00, pb. £15.99.

Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Christopher Falzon. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 230 pp., pb. £11.99.

Arresting Language: From Leibniz to Benjamin, Peter Fenves. Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, xiii + 379 pp., $55.00, pb. $24.95.

Richard Rorty: Critical Dialogues, Matthew Festenstein and Simon Thompson (eds). Cambridge: Polity, 2001, ix + 241 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Berkeley and the Principles of Human Knowledge, Robert J. Fogelin. Routledge Philosophy Guidebooks. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, x + 166 pp., pb. £8.99.

Intellectual Trust in Oneself and Others, Richard Foley. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, x + 182 pp., $55.00.

Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times, Steve Fuller. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2000, pb. 2001, xvii + 472 pp., pb. $22.50, 314.50.

A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice, Raimond Gaita. London/New York: Routledge (1998), 2002, xiii + 293 pp., pb.

Stochastic Causality, Maria Carla Galavotti, Patrick Suppe s and Domenieo Costantini (eds). CSLI Publications. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, xii + 275 pp., $65.00, pb. $25.00; £41.00, pb. £16.00.

Introduction to Logic, Harry J. Gensler. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 399 pp., pb. £15.99.

Walter Benjamin: Critical Constellations, Graeme Gilloch. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Oxford: Polity, 2002, xi + 304 pp., £50.00, pb. £14.99.

Between Ethics and Aesthetics: Crossing the Boundaries, Dorota Glowacka and Stephen Boos (eds). Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2002, v + 310 pp., $81.50, pb. $27.95.

Practical Rules: When We Need Them and When We Don't, Alan H. Goldman. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, xi + 210 pp., $54.95.

Manners and Violence, Ignacio L. Götz. Westport, CN/London: Praeger, 2000, xiii +131 pp., £44.50.

Dummett: Philosophy of Language, Karen Green. Key Contemporary Thinkers. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, xi + 236 pp., £55.00, pb. £14.99.

Wittgenstein: Connections and Controversies, P. M. S. Hacker. Oxford: Clarendon Press,2001. xxiv + 375 pp., £35.00.

India: A Financial Sector for the Twenty-first Century, James A. Hanson and Sanjay Kathuria (eds). Oxford India Paperbacks. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002 (first publ. 1999), xv + 446 pp., pb. £13.99.

Socialism, Michael W. Howard (ed.). Key Concepts in Critical Theory. New York: Humanity Books, 2001, 408 pp., pb. $29.00.

Ontology and the Art of Tragedy: An Approach to Aristotle's Poetics, Martha Husain. SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy. Albany, NY: State University of New York,2002. ix + 152 pp., pb. $16.95.

Why Good is Good: The Sources of Morality, Robert A. Hinde. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiv + 241 pp., pb. £15.99.

Logical Investigations, Edmund Husserl. Two vols. trans. J. N. Findlay, revised Dermot Moran with new preface by Dermot Moran and new introduction by Michael Dummett. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, vol. 1, Ixxxvii + 331 pp., pb. $29.95; vol. 2, xiv + 364 pp., pb. $29.95.

The Shorter Logical Investigations, Edmund Husserl. Abridged ed. and trans. J. N. Findlay, abridged and revised by Dermot Moran with new preface by Dermot Moran and new introduction by Michael Dummett. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, Ixxxv + 422 pp., pb. $27.95.

The Political, David Ingram (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Maiden, MA/ Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xii + 310 pp., £60.00, pb. £15.99.

Hegel, M. J. In wood. Arguments of the Philosophers. London/New York: Routledge (1983 and 1998), xxxiv + 582 pp., pb.

Reconsidering Michael Polanyi's Philosophy, Stefania Ruzsits Jha. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002, viii + 318 pp., $32.00.

Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud's Cultural Texts, Diane Jone-Pace. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001, x + 190 pp., $45.00, pb. $17.95, £29.95, pb. £12.95.

Free Will, Robert Kane (ed.). Blackwell Readings in Philosophy. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 2001, xii + 310 pp., £55.00, pb. £15.99.

Wittgenstein: Biography and Philosophy, James C. Klagge (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xv + 272 pp., $54.95, pb. $19.95.

Frege and the Logic of Sense and Reference, Kevin C. Klement. Studies in Philosophy: Outstanding Dissertations. New York/London: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 260 pp., $70.00.

The Presence of Myth, Leszek Kolakowski. Chicago, IL/London: University of Chicago Press (1989), pb. ed. 2001, xii + 138 pp., $13.00, £8.50.

Justifying Emotions: Pride and Jealousy, Kristján Kristjansson. Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xii + 257 pp., £50.00.

Understanding Philosophy of Science, James Ladyman. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 290 pp., pb. £12.99.

Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology, John Leslie. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, xi + 234 pp., £25.00.

Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, John Llewelyn. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2002, xx + 255 pp., $49.95, pb. $24.95.

Logic, Form, and Grammar. Peter Long. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, x + 109 pp.

Metaphysics: A Contemporary Introduction, Michael J. Loux. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xiii + 303 pp., pb. £13.99.

Metaphysics: Contemporary Readings, Michael J. Loux (ed.). Routledge Contemporary Readings in Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xii + 555 pp., pb. £16.99.

The Metaphysicians of Meaning: Russell and Frege on Sense and Denotation, Gideon Makin. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, ix + 229 pp.

Towards a Critical Theory of Society, Herbert Marcuse. Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse 2. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xiii + 242 pp., £19.99.

Kierkegaard in the Present Age, Gordon Marino. Pref. by Philip Rieff. Marquette Studies in Philosophy 27. Milwaukee, WI: Marquette University Press, 2001, 124 pp.

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mind, K. T. Maslin. Cambridge: Polity, 2001, xviii + 332 pp., no price given.

The Philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Eric Matthews. Continental European Philosophy. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2002, vi + 186 pp., £40.00, pb. £14.95.

Mind and Mechanism, Drew McDermott. Bradford Books. Cambridge, MA/London: MIT Press, 2001, xv + 262 pp., $32.95.

Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers, Brian McGuinness. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, xv + 299 pp., £50.00.

Collective Rationality and Collective Reasoning, Christopher McMahon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, ix + 251 pp., $54.95, pb. $19.95.

Authority and Estrangement: An Essay on Self-Knowledge, Richard Moran. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001, xxxv + 202 pp., £35.00, pb. £11.95.

The Sublime in Kant and Beckett Aesthetic Judgement, Ethics and Literature, Bjørn K. Myskja. Kantstudien 140. Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, xii + 313 pp., no price given.

Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind, Steven Nadler. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2001, xvi + 225 pp., £22.50.

Arguing About Art: Contemporary Philosophical Debates, Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley (eds). 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, 2002 (McGraw-Hill, 1995), xiii + 479 pp.

Building on Frege: New Essays on Sense, Content, and Concept, Albert Newen, Ulrich Nortmann and Rainer Stuhlmann-Laeisz (eds). CSLI Publications. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, xxiv + 351 pp., $65.00, pb. $23.00, £41.00, pb. £14.50.

Naturalism and Religion, Kai Nielsen. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2001, 506 pp., $40.00.

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future, Friedrich Nietzsche. Ed. Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman; trans. Judith Norman. Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001, xxxiv + 193 pp., $38.00, pb. $14.00.

Truth Matters: Realism, Anti-Realism and Response-Dependence, Christopher Norris. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2002, viii + 228 pp., £40.00.

Naturalism and the Human Condition: Against Scientism, Frederick A. Olafson. London/ New York: Routledge, 2001, xi + 115 pp., pb. £13.99.

Wittgenstein's Tractatus: A Dialectical Interpretation. Matthew B. Ostrow. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002, x + 175 pp., $55.00, pb. $20.00.

Land, Value, Community: Callicott and Environmental Philosophy, Wayne Ouderkirk and Jim Hill (eds). Albany, NY: State University of New York, 2002, ix + 358 pp., $73.50, pb. $24.95.

Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life, Keith Ansell Pearson. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 246 pp., $80.00, pb. $38.95.

Environmental Culture: The Ecological Crisis of Reason, VaI Plum wood. Environmental Philosophies. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, vii + 291 pp., pb. £13.99.

Ethical Life: The Past and Present of Ethical Cultures, Harry Redner. Lanham/Boulder/ New York/Oxford: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001, ix + 348 pp., $80.00, pb. $32.95.

Paradoxes: Their Roots, Range, and Resolution, Nicholas Rescher. Chicago/La Salle, IL: Open Court, 2001, xxiii + 293 pp., £44.50, pb. £20.95.

Medicine, Magic and Religion, W. H. R. Rivers. The Fitzpatrick Lectures (first publ. 1924). Routledge Classics. Preface by G. Elliot Smith. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, viii + 136 pp. (pb.). No price given.

Is it Righteous to Be? Interviews with Emannuel Levinas, Jill Robbins (ed.). Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2001, ix + 305 pp., $55.00, pb. $24.95.

Philosophy of Science: A Contemporary Introduction, Alex Rosenberg. Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, x + 191 pp.

ABC of Relativity, Bertrand Russell. 6th ed. with intro. by Peter Clark. London/NY: Routledge, 1992, reissue: 2001, xvi + 155 pp., pb. $15.95.

What is Truth? Richard Schantz (ed.). Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy 1. Berlin/ New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2002, vi + 338 pp., no price given.

The BlackweU Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Robert L. Simon (ed.). Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Maiden, MA/Oxford: Blackwell, 2002, xi + 329 pp., £60.00, pb. £16.99.

The Unfinished Project: Toward a Postmetaphysical Humanism, Lorenzo C. Simpson. London/NY: Routledge, 2001, xi +180 pp., $85.00, pb. $22.95.

Hegel and the Phenomenology of Spirit, Robert Stern. Routledge Guidebooks. London / New York: 2001, xviii + 234 pp., pb. £8.99.

Wittgenstein, Avrum Stroll. Oxford: Oneworld Publications, 2002, ix + 162 pp., pb. $14.95.

Matters of Mind: Consciousness, Reason and Nature, Scott Sturgeon. International Library of Philosophy. London/New York: Routledge, 2000, x + 166 pp.

Marx for a Post-Communist Era, Stefan Sullivan. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, x + 191 pp., pb. £14.99.

Critical Reasoning: A Practical Introduction, Arme Thompson. 2nd ed. London/New York: Routledge, 2002, ix + 209 pp., pb. £12.99.

Hyperreality: Paradigm for the Third Millennium, John Tiffin and Nobuyoshi Terashima (eds). London/New York: Routledge, 2001, vvii +165 pp., (pb.) price not given.

Foucault and Latin America: Appropriations and Deployments of Discoursive Analysis, Benigno Trigo (ed.). New York/London: Routledge, 2002, xxi + 305 pp., pb. £16.99.

Knowledge, Michael Welbourne. Central Problems of Philosophy. Chesham, UK: Acumen, 2001, xiii + 143 pp., £35.00, pb. £12.95.

Philosophy, Literature and the Human Good, Michael Weston. London/New York: Routledge, 2001, xix + 198 pp., pb. £14.99.

A Clearing in the Forest: Law, Life, and Mind, Steven L. Winter. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2001, xvii + 440 pp., $38.00/£24.00.

Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology, John H. Zammito. Chicago/London: University of Chicago Press, 2002, xii + 576 pp., pb. $29.00, £18.50.     

Miller on Dumézil: The Current State of Play

Robert A. Segal, Joseph Campbell: An introduction. New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1987, $22.00

Lawrence A. Hoffman, Beyond the text: A holistic approach to liturgy. Bloomington and Indianapolis, Indiana University Press, 1987, 213 pp

Wesley A. Kort, Modern Fiction and Human Time: A Study in Narrative and Belief. Tampa, University of South Florida Press, 1985, pp. x + 227. $20.00.

Bentley Layton (ed.), The Gnostic Scriptures. London, SCM Press, 1987, pp. xiii + 526, £25.

H. H. the Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, The Kālachakra Tantra : Rite of initiation for the stage of Generation, a commentary ; text edited, translated and introduced in Jeffrey Hopkins. London, Wisdom Publications, 1985, 511 pp. £11.95.     

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 Construction of Imaginaries of the Public as a Threat to Synthetic Biology

Discipline &; Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution, by Peter Dear, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995, 290 pp., $24.00 pb; $60.00 hb

Mathematics, Science, and Postclassical Theory, edited by Barbara Herrnstein Smith and Arkady Plotnitsky, Durham: Duke University Press, 1997, 279 pp., $12.00 pb     

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.