A comprehensive index of philosophy book reviews
A comprehensive index of philosophy book reviews
3,974 reviews · 1963–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Delphic Oracle: Its Responses and Operations, with a Catalogue of Responses 2 reviews | Joseph Fontenrose | Peter Green | 1979-04-05 |
| The Philosophy of Paul Ricoeur: An Anthology of His Work | Charles E. Reagan | J.M. Cameron | 1979-04-05 |
| Ethics, Value and Reality 4 reviews | Aurel Kolnai | J.M. Cameron | 1979-04-05 |
| Husserl and the Search for Certitude 2 reviews | Leszek Kolakowski | J.M. Cameron | 1979-04-05 |
| Escape from Predicament: Neo-Confucianism and China's Evolving Political Culture 2 reviews | Thomas A. Metzger | Jonathan D. Spence | 1979-03-22 |
| The Paradox of Cause and Other Essays 3 reviews | John William Miller | Peter Singer | 1979-03-22 |
| The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization 5 reviews | William Barrett | Peter Singer | 1979-03-22 |
| The Arrogance of Humanism 7 reviews | David Ehrenfeld | Peter Singer | 1979-03-22 |
| Fairy Tales and After: From Snow White to E.B. White | Roger Sale | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| An Encyclopedia of Fairies: Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies and Other Supernatural Creatures | Katharine Briggs | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends | Katharine Briggs | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| The Fairies in Tradition and Literature | Katharine Briggs | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| Faeries | Brian Froud | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| Gnomes | Wil Huygen | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| A Field Guide to the Little People | Nancy Arrowsmith and George Moore | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People | Thomas Keightley | Alison Lurie | 1979-03-08 |
| Orientalism | Edward Said | Albert Hourani | 1979-03-08 |
| The Teamsters | Steven Brill | Murray Kempton | 1979-02-22 |
| Hagarism: The Making of the Islamic World | Patricia Crone and Michael Cook | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| The Matter of Araby in Medieval England | Dorothee Metlitzki | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| The Camel and the Wheel | Richard W. Bulliet | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| The Classical Heritage in Islam | Franz Rosenthal | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| The Mediaeval Islamic Underworld: The Banû Sâsân in Arabic Society and Literature | C.E. Bosworth | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| Islam from the Prophet Muhammad to the Capture of Constantinople Vol. I: Politics and War | edited and | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| Islam and the Arab World | Bernard Lewis | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| The Miraculous Journey of Mahomet: Mirâj Nâmeh | Marie-Rose Séguy | Peter Brown | 1979-02-22 |
| The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate | Maurice H. Stans | Nicholas von Hoffman | 1979-02-08 |
| Criminal Violence, Criminal Justice | Charles E. Silberman | Graham Hughes | 1979-01-25 |
| Jacques Lacan 2 reviews | Anika Lemaire | Richard Wollheim | 1979-01-25 |
| The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis | Jacques Lacan | Richard Wollheim | 1979-01-25 |
| Ecrits: A Selection 2 reviews | Jacques Lacan | Richard Wollheim | 1979-01-25 |
| The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Politics | Don E. Fehrenbacher | C. Vann Woodward | 1978-12-07 |
| Ways of Worldmaking 7 reviews | Nelson Goodman | W.V. Quine | 1978-11-23 |
| Henry Ward Beecher: Spokesman for a Middle-Class America | Clifford E. Clark Jr. | George M. Fredrickson | 1978-11-09 |
| Chariot of Fire: Religion and the Beecher Family | Marie Caskey | George M. Fredrickson | 1978-11-09 |
| The Life of the Mind; Volume 1, Thinking; Volume 2, Willing | Hannah Arendt | Sheldon S. Wolin | 1978-10-26 |
| The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture, and Social Change | David E. Stannard | Lawrence Stone | 1978-10-26 |
| Jesus the Magician 2 reviews | Morton Smith | Frank Kermode | 1978-10-26 |
| Decent Interval | Frank Snepp | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1978-10-12 |
| Honorable Men: My Life in the CIA | William Colby and Peter Forbath | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1978-10-12 |
| In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story | John Stockwell | John Kenneth Galbraith | 1978-10-12 |
| Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present 2 reviews | Philippe Ariès | Lawrence Stone | 1978-10-12 |
| L'Homme devant la mort fall of 1979) | Philippe Ariès | Lawrence Stone | 1978-10-12 |
| Utopia 5 reviews | Thomas More | Quentin Skinner | 1978-10-12 |
| The Complete Works of St. Thomas More, Volume 2: The History of King Richard III | Thomas More | Quentin Skinner | 1978-10-12 |
| On Human Nature 5 reviews | Edward O. Wilson | Stuart Hampshire | 1978-10-12 |
| The Pursuit of Happiness, and Other Sobering Thoughts | George F. Will | Ronald Dworkin | 1978-10-12 |
| Mountain Monarchs: Wild Sheep and Goats of the Himalaya | George B. Schaller | Robert M. Adams | 1978-09-28 |
| The Snow Leopard | Peter Matthiessen | Robert M. Adams | 1978-09-28 |
| Sun, Moon and Standing Stones | John Edwin Wood | Kirkus Reviews | 1978-09-28 |