Journal of the History of Ideas

Allen, Richard C. David Hartley on Human Nature (SUNY Series in the Philosophy of Psychology, ed. Michael Washburn). Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xxiv, 469p., bibl., index. $24. Comprehensive and systematic exposition, not just on association of ideas.

Althusser, Louis. Machiavelli and Us. Ed. by François Matheron. New York: Verso, 1999. xxii, 136p., index, $30. Translation of Ecrits philosophiques et politiques, II (1995). Althusser’s Ecole Normale lectures on Machiavelli.

Ariew, Roger. Descartes and the Last Scholastics. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1999. xi, 230p., bibl., index. Descartes’s private and public views about Scotists, Thomists, Jesuits, philosophical and theological topics; and scholastic criticism of Cartesianism.

Aristotle. Metaphysics. Tr. by Joe Sachs. Sante Fe: Green Lion P, 1999. lx, 303p., bibl., index. Delatinized translation.

Baranger, Denis. Parlementarisme des origines: Essai sur les conditions de formation d’un exécutif responsable en Angleterre des années 1740 au début de l’âge victorien. Paris: PU de France, 1999. 408p., indices. F198. Political responsibility and its institutions.

Bartlett, Robert C., and Susan D. Collins, eds. Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy). Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. xv, 333p., index. Fourteen chapters, a few translated.

Bauer, Karin. Adorno’s Nietzschean Narratives: Critiques of Ideology, Readings of Wagner. Albany: State U of New York P, 1999. x, 286p., bibl., index, $24.95. Comparative analysis of Nietzsche and Adorno on rationality, history, and modernity and its discontents.

Bayle, Pierre. Correspondance 1662–1674, vol. I. Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 1999. xliv, 432p., index. Critical edition with introductions, notes, chronology, glossary, and other apparatus.

Beck, Lewis W. Essays by Lewis White Beck: Five Decades as a Philosopher. Ed. by Predag Cicovacki. Rochester: U of Rochester P, 1998. xxxii, 244p., bibl., index, $59.95. Twelve previously published essays with appendices (“How I Became Almost a Philosopher” and a bibliography) and a foreword by Robert L. Holmes and an introduction by the editor.

Becker, Lawrence C. A New Stoicism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1998. viii, 216p., bibl., index. Stoicism updated, purged, and applied.

Bénichou, Paul. The Consecration of the Writer, 1750–1830. Tr. Mark K. Jensen. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1999. xix, 454p., index. $65. Translation of Le Sacre de l’écrivain 1750–1830 (1996).

Bentham, Jeremy. “Legislator of the World”: Writings on Codification, Law and Education (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham). Ed. by Philip Schofield and Jonathan Harris. New York: Oxford, 1998. lviii, 450p., indices. $110. Critical edition, from MSS and printed editions, with collations.

Bevir, Mark. The Logic of the History of Ideas. New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. xi, 337p., bibl., index. $59.95. Theoretical considerations from the standpoint of analytical philosophy.

Bianchi, Massimo Luigi, ed. Signum (Lessico Intelletuale Filosofico. IX International Colloquium, Rome, 8–10 January 1998). Florence: Olschki, 1999. 448p., index, L90,000. Twenty-two contributions in Italian, French, German, and English.

Biro, Matthew. Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger (Contemporary Artists and Their Critics, Donald Kuspit, gen. ed.). New York: Cambridge UP, 1999. xiv, 319p., bibl., index. $75. Connecting the artist and his work with Heideggerian themes.

Bonnell, Victoria E., and Lynn Hunt, eds. Beyond the Cultural Turn (New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture). Berkeley: U California P, 1999. xi, 350p., index. $45. Nine essays by sociologists and historians and a comment by Hayden White.

Bonnen, Clarence A., and Daniel E. Flage. Descartes and Method: A Search for a Method in “Meditations” (Routledge Studies in Seventeenth-Century Philosophy). London: Routledge, 1999. xii, 306p. bibl., index. $90. Revisionist reconstruction.

Borgeaud, Philippe et al., eds. La Mythologie du Matriarcat: L’Atelier de Johann Jakob Bachofen (Recherches et Rencontres, 13). Geneva: Droz, 1999. 252p., bibl. Investigation of Bachofen’s lecture notes from the archives of Basel concerning his ideas of matriarchy.

Bowlin, John. Contingency and Fortune in Aquinas’s Ethics (Cambridge studies in religion and Critical Thought). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1999. xiv, 234p., bibl., index. $59.95. Philosophical commentary, arguing for contemporary relevance.

Bradley, Owen. A Modern Maistre: The Social and Political Thought of Joseph de Maistre (European Horizon Series). Lincoln: U of Nevada P, 1999. xxi, 273p., bibl., index, $55...