BOOK REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Knowledge and Lotteries . B y J ohn H awthorne .
Presocratic Philosophy: Essays in Honour of Alexander Mourelatos . E dited by V ictor C aston and D aniel G raham
The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Philosophy . E dited by A.S. M c G rade .
Hume's Philosophy of the Self . by A.E. P itson .
Approaches to Wittgenstein: Collected Papers . B y B rian M c G uinness .
In Introduction to the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze . E dited by J ean K ealfa .
Deleuze on Literature . B y R onald B ogue .
Between Deleuze and Derrida . E dited by P aul P atton and J ohn P rotevi .
Reinventing Pragmatism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century . B y J oseph M argolis .
The Unraveling of Scientism: American Philosophy at the End of the Twentieth Century . B y J oseph M argolis .
Daniel Dennett: Reconciling Science and Our Self-Conception . B y M atthew E lton
Conceptions of Truth . B y W olfgang K ünne .
Consciousness: New Philosophical Perspectives . E dited by Q uentin S mith and A leksander J okic
Welfare and Rational Care . B y S tephen D arwall .
Toleration as Recognition . B y A nna E lisabetta G aleotti .     

Radical Traditions and the Return to Scripture in Religion and Theology

Books reviewed in this article:
David Weiss Halivni, Revelation Restored: Divine Writ and Critical Responses
Peter Ochs and Nancy Levene, Textual Reasonings: Jewish Philosophy and Text Study at the End of the Twentieth Century
P. Travis Kroeker and Bruce Ward, Remembering the End: Dostoevsky as Prophet to Modernity
Stanley Hauerwas, Wilderness Wanderings: Probing Twentieth Century Theology and Philosophy
David Toole, Waiting for Godot in Sarajevo: Theological Reflections on Nihilism, Tragedy, and Apocalypse
George Lindbeck (ed.) and James J. Buckley, The Church in a Postliberal Age     

REVIEWS

Michael Williams. Groundless Belief: An Essay on the Possibility of Epistemology
E. M. Adams Philosophy and the Modern Mind. Chapel Hill
Joseph Margolis. Negativities: the Limits of Life     

Book Reviews

Joseph Margolis, Historied Thought, Constructed World: A Conceptual Primer for the Turn of the Millennium
Steven W. Laycock, Mind as Mirror and the Mirroring of Mind
John Lachs, The Relevance of Philosophy to Life
William Joseph Gavin, Cuttin' the Body Loose: Historical, Biological, and Personal Approaches to Death and Dying
Maeve Cooke, Language and Reason: A Study of Habermas's Pragmatics     

Joseph Margolis on Pragmatism

This paper begins with a memoir of the author’s interactions with Joseph Margolis that delineates both Margolis’s importance as a teacher and their disagreements on aspects of American philosophy. It then turns to Margolis’s discussions of pragmatism as a philosophical movement, with an emphasis on his understanding of John Dewey. The paper considers, third, Margolis’s account of the decline and rebirth of pragmatism, the latter process attributed largely to the work of Richard Rorty. The paper concludes with an examination of what it sees as Margolis’s most valuable work: his explorations of the nature of the self and of human society.     

Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Equality and Partiality . By Thomas Nagel.
Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition". By Charles Taylor.
Autonomy and self-respect. By Thomas E. Hill.
Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant's Moral Theory. By Thomas E. Hill.
Science and Subjectivity: The Vienna Circle and Twentieth Century Philosophy. Edited by David Bell and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Jennifer Hornsby, Simple Mindedness. In Defense of Naive Naturalism in the Philosophy of Mind
Geneviève Rodis-Lewis, Descartes: His Life and Thoughts
Josef Früchtl, Äesthetische Erfahrung und Moralisches Urteil: Eine Rehabilitierung
P.M.S. Hacker, Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth Century Philosophy
Ray Monk and Anthony Palmer, Bertrand Russell and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
Dominique Janicaud, Chronos: Pour l'intelligence de partage temporel
Geroge Boolos, Logic, Logic and Logic
Susan James, Passion and Action: the Emotions in Seventeenth Century Philosoophy
Robert R. Williams, Hegel's Ethics of Recognition     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Raymond D. Boisvert, John Dewey: Rethinking Our Time
Larry A. Hickman, ed., Reading Dewey: Interpretations for a Postmodern Generation
Jennifer Welchman, Dewey's Ethical Thought
Richard Shusterman, Practicing Philosophy: Pragmatism and the Philosophical Life
Richard E. Hart and Douglas R. Anderson, eds., Philosophy in Experience: American Philosophy in Transition
Richard Kearney, Poetics of Modernity: Toward a Hermeneutic Imagination     

Reviews

Daniel W. Hard, God's Ways with the World: Thinking and Practising Christian Faith
Sallie McFague, Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature
Wolfhart Pannenberg, Systematic Theology Volume 3
Miroslav Volf, After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity
Michael Battle, Reconciliation: The Ubuntu Theology of Desmond Tutu
Philip Clayton, God and Contemporary Science
Christopher R. Seitz, Word Without End. The Old Testament as Abiding Theological Witness
Louis Dupré, Religious Mystery and Rational Reflection: Excursions in the Phenomenology and Philosophy of Religion
Duncan B. Forrester, Christian Justice and Public Policy
Emmanuel Levinas, Entre-Nous: On Thinking of the Other     

The Undiscovered Wittgenstein: The Twentieth Century's Most Misunderstood Philosopher

Books reviewed: John Cook, The Undiscovered Wittgenstein: The Twentieth Century's Most Misunderstood Philosopher, Humanity Books, 2005, 437, price $55 hb.
Reviewed by Ronald E. Hustwit Sr., The College of Wooster,
Lt. Ronald E. Hustwit Jr., USAF
Ronald E. Hustwit Sr.
Philosophy Department
The College of Wooster
Scovel Hall
944 College Mall
Wooster, OH 44691
Lt. Ronald E. Hustwit Jr.
Air Combat Command
Beale Air Force Base     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Greenberg, Clement. Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste .
Diderot, Denis. Diderot on Art—I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting .
Diderot, Denis. Diderot on Art—II: The Salon of 1767 .
Rosen, Charles. Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen .
Foster, Hal. The Return of the Real .
Wyss, Beat. Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity .
Kemal, Salim, Ivan Gaskell, and Daniel W. Conway, eds. Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts .
Kostka, Alexandre, and Ivan Wohlfarth, eds. Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds."
Benezra, Neal, and Olga Viso, eds. Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century .
Wartenberg, Thomas E. Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism .
Bober, Phyllis Pray. Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy .
Marra, Michele, ed. and trans. Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader .
Mitias, Michael, ed. Architecture and Civilization .
Hill, Richard. Designs and Their Consequences .
Leach, Neil. The Anaesthetics of Architecture .
Byrne, Alex, and David R. Hilbert, eds. Readings on Color, Volume 1: The Philosophy of Color .
Byrne, Alex, and David R. Hilbert, eds. Readings on Color, Volume 2: The Science of Color .     

What,After All,Is the Work of Culture?

This paper offers an overview of Joseph Margolis’s philosophy of culture, highlighting how Margolis’s radical historicism is not inconsistent with our realistic intuitions regrading facts and objectivity. While Margolis identifies interpretation as the work of culture, the paper suggests that a much more basic sense of human labor needs to be thematized more fully than Margolis does in any defensible account of culture. Margolis of course appreciates work in this sense, but he does not consistently make it integral to his conception of culture. Even so, what he so forcefully defends is, as one commentator has put it, “beautiful. It’s also erudite, elegant, and insightful (and frightfully, dialectically intricate).”     

Reviews

Reviews in this article: Defenders of the Truth: The Sociobiology Debate. By Ullica Segerstrale. The Triumph of Sociobiology. By John Alcock. Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. 25th Anniversary Edition. By Edward O. Wilson Reenchantment without Supernaturalism: A Process Philosophy of Religion. By David Ray Griffin Reductionism: Analysis and the Fullness of Reality. By Richard H. Jones Paths from Science towards God: The End of All Our Exploring. By Arthur Peacocke     

Book Reviews

iseminger , gary . The Aesthetic Function of Art .
bermúdez , josé luis and sebastian gardner , eds. Art and Morality .
ritivoi , andreea deciu , ed. Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz .
lewis , peter b ., ed. Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy .
deleuze , gilles . Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation .
fraleigh , sondra . Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion .
mccarren , felicia . Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction .
mcclellan , andrew , ed. Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium .
tilden , scott j ., ed. Architecture for Art: American Art Museums 1938–2008 .
jullien , françois . In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics .     

Margolis Looks at the Arts

This paper examines the early aesthetic writings of Joseph Margolis from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s in order to argue for the relevance of these works in understanding Margolis’s later, more well-known views in the philosophy of art. Specifically, the paper addresses Margolis’s early essays on the definition and ontology of art and aesthetic perception. These essays not only show Margolis engaged in the most significant debates in mid-century analytic aesthetics but also provide important indications of the limitations of that approach to thinking about the arts that informs the development of Margolis’s later cultural realism.     

REVIEWS

Models for Scripture , John Goldingay, Paternoster Critical Theology , Gareth Jones Narratives of a Vulnerable God: Christ, Theology and Scripture , William C. Placher, Westminster/John Knox The Real God: A Response to Anthony Freeman's God in Us , Richard Harries One Faith? Non-realism and the World of Faiths , David A. Hart European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 , Hugh McLeod (ed.) Religion in Industrial Society: Oldham and Saddleworth 1740–1865 , Mark Smith Hear Our Voice: Women Rabbis Tell Their Stories , Sybil Sheridan (ed.) Rethinking Islam , Mohammed Arkoun Pastoral Care and Liberation Theology , Stephen Pattison Theology, Ideology and Liberation , Peter Scott A Rereading of Romans: Justice, Jews and Gentiles , Stanley K. Stowers, God in Christian Perspective , George Newlands, T. & T. Clark Learning to Speak: The Church's Voice in Public Affairs , Keith Clements, T. & T. Clark The Ethics of IVF , Anthony Dyson, Mowbray The End of Innocence: Britain in the Time of AIDS , Simon Garfield Sophie's World , Jostein Gaarder The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief , George M. Marsden The Last Philosophy , Don Cupitt The Openness of God: A Biblical Challenge to the Traditional Understanding of God , Clark Pinnock and others, Paternoster Christianity without Absolutes , Reinhold Bernhardt     

Eek! A Mickey mouse! The post‐Fuddist recomposition of urban space

Variations on a Theme Park: The New American City and the End of Public Space, by Michael Sorkin, ed., New York: Noonday Press, 1992, 252 pages, pb $15     

BOOK REVIEWS

Discovering Eve: Ancient Israelite Women in Context. By Carol Meyers. Wives, Harlots and Concubines. By Alice L. Laffey. Jonah. A Psycho-Religious Approach to the Prophet. By Andre LaCocque and Pierre-Emmanuel Lacocque. The Temptation and the Passion: The Markan Soteriology, Second Edition (Society for New Testament Studies. Monograph Series 2). By Ernest Best. Theios Aner and the Markan Miracle Traditions: A Critique of the ‘Theios Aner’Concept as an Interpretative Background of the Miracle Traditions used by Mark (Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament 2/40). By Barry Blackburn. The Shepherd Discourse of John 10 and its Context: Studies by Members of the Johannine Writings Seminar. Edited with introduction by Johannes Beutler, S.J., and Robert T. Fortna. The Epistle to the Hebrews: A Commentary on the Epistle to the Hebrews (Hermeneia). By Harold W. Attridge, edited by Helmut Koester. Structure and Message of the Epistle to the Hebrews (Subsidia Biblica 12). By Albert Vanhoye, translated by James Swetnam. Religious Pluralism and Unbelief: Studies Critical and Comparative. Edited by Ian Hamnett. 7he Uniqueness of Christ in the 7heocentric Model of the Christian Theology of World Religions: An Elaboration and Evaluation of the Position ofJohn Hick. By Gregory H. Carruthers. The Jewish Roots of Christian Liturgy. Edited by Eugene J. Fisher. Women, Religion and Sexuuliry: Studies on the Impact of Religious Teachings on Women. Edited by Jeanne Becher. In Whose Image? God and Gender. By Jann Aldredge Clanton. Women Towards Priesthood: Ministerial Politics and Feminist Praxis. By Jacqueline Field-Bibb. Afrer Eve: Women, Theology and the Christian Tradition. Edited by J. Martin Soskice. Karl Barth: Biblical and Evangelical Theologian. By Thomas F. Torrance. Theology und Dialogue: Essay in Conversation with George Lindbeck. Edited by Bruce D. Marshall. From Theology to Social Theory: Juan Luis Segundo and the Theology of Liberation (American University Studies VII/73). By Marsha Aileen Hewitt. Liberation Theology at the Crossroads: Democracy or Revolution. By Paul E. Sigmund. Global Responsibility: In Search of a New World Ethic. By Hans Kung. Marxism, Moralig and Social Justice (Studies in Moral, Political and Legal Philosophy). By R. G. Peffer. The Political Philosophy of the British Idealists. By Peter P. Nicholson. The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott. By Paul Franco. Divine Action. By Keith Ward. Free Willand the Christian Faith. By W. S. Anglin. Tracrurian Semantics: Finding Sense in Wirrgetisrein's ‘Tractatus’. By Peter Carruthers. The Metaphyics of the ‘Tracratus’. By Peter Carruthers. Realism with a Human Face. By Hilary Putnam. Explanation and its Limits (Royal Institute of Philosophy Lectures 27). Edited by Dudley Knowles. Mencius and Aquinas: Theories of Virtue and Conceptions of Courage (SUNY Series, Towards a Comparative Philosophy of Religion). By Lee H. Yearly. Hobbes (Past Masters). By Richard Tuck. Freedom and the End of Reason: On the Moral Foundation of Kant's Critical Philosophy. By Richard L. Velkley. Reason in Religion: The Foundarions of Hegel's Philosophy of Religion. By Walter Jaeschke. International Kierkegaard Commentary, VoL 13: The Corsair Affair. Edited by Robert L. Perkins. Ssren Kierkegaard: ‘Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses’(Kierkegaard's Writings 5). Edited by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong. Lonergan Workshop, Volume 6. Edited by Fred Lawrence. Holy City, Holy Places: Christian Attitudes to Jerusalem and the Holy Land in the Fourth Century (Oxford Early Christian Studies). By P. W. L. Walker. Politics, Poetics and Hermeneutics in Milton s Prose. Edited by David Loewenstein and James Grantham Turner. Beauty and Holiness: The Dialogue between Aesthetics and Religion. By James Alfred Martin. Science Deified & Science Defied: The Historical Significance of Science in Western Culture. Volume 2: From the Earl? Modern Age through the Romantic Era ca. 1640 to ca. 1820. By Richard Olson. The Vatican and Zionism: Conflict in the Holy Land, 1895-1925. By Sergio I. Minerbi. The Social Dimensions of Sectarianism: Sects and New Religious Movements Contemporary Society. By Bryan Wilson. Confessor between East and West: A Portrait of Ukrainian Cardinal Josyf Slipyj. By Jaroslav Pelikan.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy . Bernard Williams Morality and the Bomb: an ethical assessment of nuclear deterrence . David Fisher War and Justice . Robert L. Phillips Norman Sexual Desire: a philosophical investigation . Roger Scruton Moral Dilemmas in Modern Medicine . Michael Lockwood (Ed.) The End of Life . James Rachels Madness and Reason . Jennifer Radden Ethical Issues in Psychosurgery . John Kleinig Moral Issues in Mental Retardation . R. S. Laura & A. F. Ashman (Eds) Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life: a philosophical inquiry . Albert Borgmann The Creative Computer: machine intelligence and human knowledge . Donald Michie & Rory Johnston The Wayward Curriculum: a cause for parents' concern ? Dennis O'Keeffe (Ed.)     

REVIEWS

Book reviewed in this article:
Mid-Twentieth Century American Philosophy: Personal Statements . Edited by P. A. Bertocci. Essays by K. D. Benne, B. Blanshard, G. Boas, T. Brameld, H. S. Broudy, E. A. Burtt, H. Feigl, C. Hartshorne, G. R. Morrow, S. C. Pepper, R. W. Sellars, H. Spiegelberg, R. Ulich, W. H. Werkmeister, and P. Weiss.
Robert C. Neville, The Cosmology of Freedom
Albert William Levi, Philosophy as Social Expression
Ronald G. Dimberg, The Sage and Society: The Life and Thought of Ho Hsin-yin .