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: 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     

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.     

Book Reviews

The Economics of Science: Methodology and Epistemology as if Economics Really Mattered. James R. Wible, 1998. London and New York, Routledge. xviii + 266 pp., US$75.00, £45.00. ISBN 0–415–17257–8

The Dawning of Gauge Theory. Lochlainn O'Raifeartaigh, 1997. Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. ix + 249 pp., $US 69.50 (hardback), $US 29.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–691–02978–4 (hardback), 0–691–02977–6 (paperback)

Mathematics as a Science of Patterns. Michael D. Resnik, 1997. Oxford, Clarendon Press. ISBN 0–19–823608–5

Proof Theory and Automated Deduction. Jean Goubault‐Larrecq & Ian Mackie, 1997. Dordrecht, Kluwer. xv+ 425 pp., $US 155, £96. ISBN 0–7923–4593–2 (hardback)     

Book reviews

A Reader on Classical Islam. F. E. Peters, 1994. Princeton, Princeton University Press. 420 pp., hb. £30.50, ISBN 0–691–03394–3; pb. £15.00, ISBN 0–691–00040–9.

The Physical Theory of Kalam: atoms, space and void in Basrian Mu'tazili cosmology. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science, Vol. XIV). Alnoor Dhanani, 1994. Leiden, E. J. Brill. 209 pp., hb. n.p., ISBN 90–04–09831–3.

Empire to Commonwealth: consequences of monotheism in late antiquity. Garth Fowden, 1993. Princeton, Princeton University Press. 205 pp., hb. £12.95, ISBN 0–691–06989–1.

Religions in the UK: a multi‐faith directory. Paul Weller (Ed.), 1993. Derby, University of Derby in association with the Interfaith Network for the United Kingdom. 630 pp. plus indices, pb. £21.50, ISBN 0–901437–06–9.

Islamic Britain: religion, politics and identity among British Muslims: Bradford in the 1990s. Philip Lewis, 1994. London, I. B. Tauris. 250 pp., pb. £9.95, ISBN 1–85043–861–7.

Bosnia and Hercegovina: a tradition betrayed. Robert J. Donia and John V. A. Fine, Jr., 1994. London, Hurst and Company. 280 pp., hb. £9.50, ISBN 1–85065–211–2.

French and Algerian Identities from Colonial Times to the Present: a century of interaction. Alec G. Hargreaves and Michael J. Heffernan (Eds), 1993. Lampeter, The Edwin Mellen Press. 253 pp., hb. £39.95, ISBN 0–7734–9233‐X.

The Course of Islam in Africa. (Islamic Surveys 15). Mervyn Hiskett, 1994. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press. 218 pp., hb. £35.00, ISBN 0–7486–0464–2; pb. £16.95, ISBN 0–7486–0461–8.

The Writings of Eastern Sudanic Africa to c. 1900. R. S. O'Fahey (comp.) 1994. Leiden, E. J. Brill. 434 pp., hb. n.p., ISBN 90–04–09450–4.     

Book reviews

The Chances of Explanation: Causal Explanation in the Social, Medical, and Physical Sciences Paul Humphreys, 1989 Princeton University Press x+170 pp., £12.95 (paperback) ISBN 0 691 020286 8; £25.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 69107353 8

In Search of a Better World: Lectures and Essays from Thirty Years Karl Popper London, Routledge £25.00 (hardback)

Artificial Morality: Virtuous Robots for Virtual Games Peter Danielson, 1992 London, Routledge £35.00 (hardback) ISBN 0 415 034841; £10.99 (paperback) ISBN 0 415 07691 9

A System of Pragmatic Idealism Nicholas Rescher, 1992 Princeton, Princeton University Press 335pp., $37.50 (hardback)     

Book reviews

Pseudo‐Problems. How Analytic Philosophy Gets Done, Roy Sorensen, 1993. London, Routledge xi + 291 pp., hb £37.50, ISBN: 0–415–09464X

Changing Tools: Case Studies in the History of Scientific Methodology, Marta Feher, 1995. Adademiai Kiado £23.17, ISBN: 9630567288

Evolutionary Naturalism, Michael Ruse, 1995, London, Routledge pp. 316, hb £35, ISBN 0–415–08997–2

Knowledge and the Body‐Mind Problem: in Defence of Interaction, Sir Karl Popper, 1994 London, Routledge ix+ 158 pp., hb £25; £10.99 pb, ISBN: 0–415–11504–3

Whys and Ways of Science, Peter J. Riggs, 1992 Melbourne University Press ix + 235 pp., £11.95, ISBN: 0522844715

Rethinking Objectivity, Aixan Megill, Ed., 1994 Durham and London, Duke University Press ix +342pp., £43.50, ISBN: 0822314797

Projective Probability, James Logue, 1995 Clarendon Press xiii+ 171 pp., £24.75, ISBN: 0198239599

Self‐motion: from Aristotle to Newton, M. L. Gill & J. G. Lennox (Eds), 1994 Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press xxi + 367 pp., £36.50, ISBN: 0–691–03235–1     

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.     

BOOK REVIEWS

Treatise on Nature and Grace by Nicolas Malebranche, translated with an introduction and notes by Patrick Riley Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992. Pp. xviii + 226. £30.00. ISBN 0–19–824832–6

Queen Christina of Sweden and Her Circle. The Transformation of a Seventeenth‐century Philosophical Libertine by Susanna Akerman, Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 21 Leiden, E. J. Brill 1991, Pp. xv + 339. $82.86

John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration in Focus edited by John Horton and Susan Mendus, London: Routledge, 1991. Pp. viii + 196. Cloth £35.00 ISBN 0 415 02205 3. Paperback £10.99 ISBN 0 415 06082 6

The Pillars of Priestcraft Shaken: The Church of England and its Enemies, 1660–1730 J. A. I. Champion Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History, Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. 268. £35.00 ISBN 0–521–40536 X.

Philosophy, Religion and Science in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries edited by John W. Yolton, Rochester, New York: Rochester University Press, 1990. Pp. xx + 539. ISBN 1–878822–02–2.

Philosophy, Science and Religion in England 1640–1700 Edited by Richard Kroll, Richard Ashcraft and Perez Zagorin Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Pp. xv + 287. £37.50 ISBN 0–521–41095–9.

Opinion and Reform in Hume's Political Philosophy by John B. Stewart Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0–691–08626–5.

The Enlightenment by Roy Porter (Studies in European History) London: Macmillan, 1990. Pp. xi + 95.

Adam Smith and His Legacy for Modern Capitalism by Patricia H. Werhane New York: Oxford University Press, 1991. Pp. xiv + 219. £27.50.

D'Artagnan und die Urteilstafel: über ein Ordnungsprinzip der Europäischen Kulturgeschichte (1, 2, 3/4) by Reinhard Brandt Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1991. ISBN 3–515–05905–0

Frege Philosophy of Mathematics by Michael Dummett London: Duckworth, 1991. Pp. xiii + 331. Price £35. ISBN 0 7156 0886 X.

Pierre Duhem: Philosophy and History in the Work of a Believing Physicist By R. N.’D. Martin La Salle: Open Court, 1991. ISBN 0–8126–9160–1. (Paper) $19.95. ISBN 0–8126–9159–8. (Cloth) $44.95.     

Book reviews

Classical Probability in the Enlightenment. LORRAINE DASTON, 1988. Princeton, Princeton University Press. xviii + 423 pp., US$19.95 (paperback). ISBN 0–691–08497–1, 0–691–00644‐X (paperback)

Following Form and Function: a Philosophical Archaeology of Life Science. STEPHEN T. ASMA, 1996. Evanston, IL, Northwestern University Press. xiii + 232 pp., price not available

Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology. ROBERT N. BRANDON, 1996. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. xiv+221 pp., $US59.95 (hardback), $Can 27.50 (paperback). ISBN 0–521–49545–9 (hardback), 0–521–49888–0 (paperback)

The Completeness of Scientific Theories: on the Derivation of Empirical Indicators within a Theoretical Framework: the Case of Physical Geometry. The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, Volume 53. MARTIN CARRIER, 1994. Dordrecht, Kluwer. xviii + 248 pp., price not available. ISBN 0–7923–24757 (hardback)

The Philosophy and History of Molecular Biology: New Perspectives. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 183. SAHOTRA SARKAR (Ed.), 1996. Dordrecht, Kluwer. 264 pp., $US127. ISBN 0–7923–3947–9

Awareness: What it is, What it does. CHRIS NUNN, 1996. London and New York, Routledge. price not available. ISBN 0–415–13227–4     

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.     

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.     

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     

Hutcheson,Perception, and the Sceptic's Challenge

Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy: Series Editors, Karl Ameriks and Desmond M. Clarke. René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy with Selections from the Objections and Replies. Translated and edited by John Cottingham. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xlvi + 120. £25., £7.95 pb. ISBN 0–521–55252–4 (hb.). ISBN 0–521–55818–2 (pb.).

Ralph Cudworth, A Treatise Concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality with A Treatise of Freewill. Edited by Sarah Hutton. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxvi + 218. £37.50 hb., £13.95 pb., ISBN 0–521–47362–4 (hb.). ISBN 0–521–47918–5 (pb.).

Anne Conway: The Principles of the Most Ancient and Modern Philosophy. Translated and edited by Allison P. Coudert and Taylor Corse. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxxix + 73. £35.00 hb., £12.95 pb. ISBN 0–521–47335–7 (hb.). ISBN 0–521–47904–5 (pb.).

Julien Offray de La Mettrie: Machine Man and Other Writings. Translated and edited by Ann Thomson. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1996. Pp. xxx + 179. £35.00 (hb.), £12.95. ISBN 0–521–47258‐X (hb.). ISBN 0–521–47849–9 (pb.).     

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).     

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.     

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     

Recent books

Abstract

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     

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.

The Last Centuries of Byzantium, 1261–1453. D. M. Nicol, 1993. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 463 +xv pp., hb. £60.00, ISBN 0–521–13384–3; pb. £17.95, ISBN 0–521–43991–4.

The Fall of Constantinople, 1453. Steven Runciman, 1965. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. 256 + xiv pp., pb. £6.95, ISBN 0–521–39832–0.

Religion and Politics in Nigeria: a study in Middle Belt Christianity. Niels Kastfelt, 1994. London/New York, British Academic Press. 204 pp., hb. £35.00, ISBN 1–85043–788–2.

The Modern Middle East: a reader. A. Hourani, P. S. Khoury and M. C. Wilson (Eds), 1993. London, I. B. Tauris. 691 pp., pb. £16.95, ISBN 1–85043–520–0.

Turkey: a modern history. Erik J. Zorcher, 1994 (1993). London, I. B. Tauris. 381 pp., pb. £14.95, ISBN 1–85043–826–9.

Islam in Modern Turkey: religion, politics and literature in a secular state. Richard Tapper (Ed.), 1994 (1991). London, I. B. Tauris. 314 pp., pb. £12.95, ISBN 1–85043–833–1.

Tarbiya: education and politics in Islamic movements in Jordan and Malaysia. Anne Sofie Roald, 1994. Lund, Lund University. 377 pp., pb. n.p., ISBN 91–22–01640–6.

The Resurgence of Central Asia: Islam or nationalism? Ahmed Rashid, 1994. London and New Jersey, Zed Books. 278 + x pp., pb. £14.95, ISBN 1–85649–132–3.

The Muslims of America. Yvonne Y. Haddad (Ed.), 1993. New York, Oxford University Press. 249 pp., pb. n.p., ISBN 0–19–508559–0.

Muslim Communities in North America. Yvonne Y. Haddad & Jane I. Smith (Eds), 1994. Albany, State University of New York Press. 545 pp., hb. $20.95, ISBN 0–7914–2019–1.

Race and Elections: the participation of ethnic minorities in politics. Muhammad Anwar, 1994. Coventry, Centre for Research in Ethnic Relations, University of Warwick. 168 pp., pb. £10.00, ISBN 0–948303–14‐X.

Britannia's Crescent: making a place for Muslims in British society. Danièle Joly, 1995. Aldershot, Avebury. 198 pp., hb. n.p., ISBN 1–85628–680–0.

The Failure of Political Islam. Olivier Roy translated by Carol Volk, 1994. London, I. B. Tauris Publishers. 238 pp., pb. £14.95, ISBN 1–85043–880–3.

Unveiling Islam. Roger du Pasquier translated by T. J. Winter, 1992. Cambridge, Islamic Texts Society. 157 pp., pb. £6.95, ISBN 0–946621–32–2.

L'Islam laïque ou la retour à la grande tradition. Olivler Carrfé, 1993. Paris, Armand Colin. 167 pp., pb. n.p., ISBN 2–200–21403–0.

Dreams in Islam. Umar Azam, 1992. Pittsburgh, PA, Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. 150 pp., hb. £8.95/514.95, ISBN 0–8059–3252–6.

The Ways of Religion: an introduction to the major traditions. R. Eastman (Ed.), 2nd ed., 1993. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 489 + xiii pp., pb. n.p., ISBN 0–19–507596‐X.

Christianity and World Religions. Hans Kong et al., 1993. London, SCM Press. 460 pp., pb. £12.50, ISBN 0334025397.

Iqrar Awghsburgh: Kit&b al‐iqrar al‐ra'is li‐caqa'id al‐kanisa al‐injtliyya al‐luthuriyya.. M. A. Younan (Ed.), 1993. Jerusalem, Evangelical Lutheran Church. 130 pp., pb. n.p., no ISBN.     

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