*Philosophy in Review/Comptes rendus philosophiques* is a specialist
book review journal in philosophy, appearing 6 times a year.

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BOOKS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW:

Ariew, Roger and Eric Watkins, READINGS IN MODERN
PHIOSOPHY VOLUME I:
DESCARTES, SPINOZA, LEIBNIZ and ASSOCIATED TEXTS;
and VOLUME II:
LOCKE, BERKELEY, HUME and ASSOCIATED TEXTS (Joint
review 1200 words)
Key works by Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and
Hume in
their entirety or in substantial selections, along with a rich
selection of associated texts by other leading thinkers of the period.
NOTE: This review should, among other things, address the usefulness
of these works as teaching texts.

Bobbio, Noberto, IN PRAISE of MEEKNESS: ESSAYS on
ETHICS and POLITICS
(800 words) Bobbio reflects on his civil commitment to liberty,
democracy, peace and equality, developing some of the central themes
in Bobbio's moral and political philosophy.

Changeux, Jean-Pierre, and Paul Ricoeur, WHAT MAKES US
THINK?  (1000
words) Explores the vexed territory between various approaches on the
workings of human  consciousness, mind , and the work of
neuroscience--and purports to offer a more useful and complex
perspective on human nature.

Dasron, Lorraine (ed.), BIOGRAPHIES of SCIENTIFIC OBJECTS   (1000
words) Considers how whole domains of phenomena--dreams, atoms,
monsters, culture, society--come into being and sometimes pass away or
are resurrected as objects of scientific study.  Explores the ways in
which scientific objects are both real and historical.

Duchesneau, Francois, Guy Lafrance and Claude Piche, KANT ACTUEL:
HOMMAGE A PIERRE LABERGE (in French) (1000 words) A wide-ranging set
of essays on Kant, in honor of Pierre Laberge (Review should be in
French)

Gelven, Michael, THE ASKING MYSTERY: A PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY   (1000
words) Confronts questions like "How do we ask the great questions?
What does it mean to ask so profoundly?" as it explores humans as
self-reflecting thinkers.

Landry, Lorraine Y., MARX and POSTMODERNISM DEBATES: AN AGENDA for
CRITICAL THEORY   (1000 words) Argues that Marx's complex response to
Enlightenment rationality and modernity holds an important
interpretive key to the postmodernism debates, for they can be seen as
fueled by equally complex responses to Marx's legacy.

Mackey, Eva, THE HOUSE of DIFFERENCE: CULTURAL POLITICS and NATIONAL
IDENTITY in CANADA   (1000 words) Combines an analysis of the
construction of national identity in both past and present-day public
culture with interviews with white Canadians; explores how ideas of
racial and cultural differences are articulated in colonial and
national projects, and in the subjectivities of people who consider
themselves "ordinary," or simply "canadian-Canadians."

Manderson, Desmond, SONGS WITHOUT MUSIC: AESTHETIC DIMENIONS of LAW
and JUSTICE   (1000 words) Argues that by treating a text, legal or
otherwise, as if it were merely a sequence of logical propositions,
readers miss key formal and symbolic meanings.  Demonstrates that law
is not a sterile, rational structure, but a cultural form to be valued
and enhanced through rhetoric and metaphors, form, images, and
symbols.

Martinson, Mattias, PERSEVERANCE WITHOUT DOCTRINE: ADORNO,
SELF-CRITIQUE, and the ENDS of ACADEMIC THEOLOGY   (1000 words)
Makes use of Theodor W. Adorno's multifaceted critical theory to
formulate a notion of theology that challenges the idea of academic
theology as an exclusively Christian endeavor.

McCracken, C.J. and I.C. Tipton (eds.), BERKELEY'S PRINCIPLES and
DIALOGUES   (1000 words) A selection that illuminates the backgrounds
from which Berkeley's philosophical views emerged and illustrates the
reactions those views provoked, particularly in the 18th century.

McGhee, Michael, TRANSFORMATION of MIND: PHILOSOPHY as SPIRITUAL
PRACTICE   (1000 words)
Develops an ethical naturalism in which so-called 'moral language' is
reinterpreted and grounded in a well or badly informed responsiveness
to others, an appreciation of them that motivates action and
restraint.

Meynell, Hugo A., POSTMODERNISM and the NEW ENLIGHTENMENT   (1000
words) Sets out to describe what is known about "postmodernism."
Meynell criticizes its defects, calls attention to its dangers, and
outlines a new way of thinking which attempts to combine
postmodernism's best features with those of the Enlightenment to which
it is so vehemently opposed.

Mohanty, J.N. CLASSICAL INDIAN PHILOSOPHY   (1000 words)
Examines the range of Indian philosophy from the Sutra period through
the 17. century Navya Nyaya.  It addresses the foundations and
development of Indian thought regarding epistemology, metaphysics, and
the attempt to transcend the distinction between subject and object.

Mullarkey, John, BERGSON and PHILOSOPHY   (1000 words)
Looks at Bergson's use of philosophical form and aims to dispel the
view that Bergson ever stuck to one type of philosophy at all,
vitalism or phenomenology.  Author explores each of Bergson's seven
major works from a metaphilosophical perspective.

Muller, John and Joseph Brent (eds.) PEIRCE, SEMIOTICS, and
PSYCHOANALYSIS   (1000 words)
Provides an introduction to Peirce and explore different implications
of Peirce's theory of representation for psychoanalytic practice as
well as for philosophical reflection.

Pettersson, Anders, VERBAL ART: A PHILOSOPHY of LITERATURE and
LITERARY EXPERIENCE   (1000 words)
Aims to present a basic theory of literature and literary experience.
The point of departure is the conviction that literature is linguistic
communication of a special type.

Pust, Joel, INTUITIONS as EVIDENCE   (1000 words)
Shows how contemporary philosophy relies on intuitions as evidence,
explains what intuitions are, and shows why certain contemporary
arguments against the use of intuitions as evidence fail.

Rajchman, John, THE DELEUZE CONNECTION   (1000 words)
Seeks to map the work of Deleuze, and to trace its implications for
social and cultural thought, and the project of critical theory.

Ross, Don, Andrew Brook and David Thompson (eds.), DENNETT'S
PHILOSOPHY: A COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT (1200 words)
The essays in this collection consider whether the complex components
of Dennett's work on intentionality, consciousness, evolution, and
ethics themselves come together into a coherent philosophical system.

Sallis, John, THE SENSE of the ELEMENTAL   (1000 words)
Probes the very nature of imagination and reveals how the force of
imagination extends into all spheres of human life.

Silverman, Hugh J. (ed.), PHILOSOPHY and DESIRE   (1000 words)
Demonstrates how and where desire happens through readings of figures
such as Battaille, Sartre, de Beauvoir, Barthes, Levinas, Irigaray,
and Derrida.

Singer, Irving, GEORGE SANTAYANA: LITERARY PHILOSOPHER   (1000 words)
Argues that Santayana's genius consisted in his imaginative ability to
turn various types of personal alienation into creative elements that
recur throughout his books.

Smart, Ninian, WORLD PHILOSOPHIES   (1000 words)
Presents in one volume an introduction to all the world's major
philosophical and religious traditions.
NOTE: This review should, among other things, address the usefulness
of the work as a teaching text.

Spinoza, POLITICAL TREATISE   (1000 words)
Spinoza's last work and represents not just his most mature thought on
political theory but also its underpinnings in metaphysics and the
philosophy of human behavior.

Stone, M.W.F. and Jonathan Wolff (eds.), THE PROPER AMBITION of
SCIENCE  (1000 words)
On the questions of "what is the proper relation between scientific
world view and other aspects of human knowledge and experience?", "can
any  science aim at 'complete coverage' of the world, and if it does,
will it undermine other attempts to describe or understand the world?"

Tougas, Cecile T. and Sara Ebenreck (eds.)  RESENTING WOMEN
PHILOSOPHERS   (1000 words)
Gathers essays and other writings that reflect women's engagement with
the meaning of individual experience and that show a previously
unrecognized continuity in their philosophical concerns and practices.

Wheeler III, Samuel C., DECONSTRUCTION as ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY  (1000
words) Discusses Derrida and other "deconstructive" thinkers from the
perspective of an analytic philosopher willing to treat deconstruction
as philosophy, taking it seriously enough to look for and analyze its
arguments.

Ziarek, Krzysof, and Seamus Deane (eds.) FUTURE CROSSINGS:
LITERATURE
BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY and CULTURAL STUDIES   (1000
words) Uses a broad
spectrum of philosophers -- Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, and
many
others--to consider whether the future of literary studies depends on
an  understanding of aesthetics both as an outcome of its cultural
context and the questioning of that very context.




David Kahane
Editor, Philosophy in Review
Department of Philosophy
University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada  T6G 2E5

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