Reviews: Books

Challenging Postmodernism by David Detmer

Barry Seidman enjoys David Detmer’s provocative book about Postmodernism, Humanism and the Left.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005]

Kant, Herder and the Birth of Anthropology by John Zammito

The loser wins, comments Ivan Brady as he ponders John Zammito’s book on the rivalry between Kant and Herder.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

The President of Good and Evil by Peter Singer

Scott O’Reilly reviews Peter Singer’s review of George W. Bush’s statements on ethics.
[Issue 49: January/February 2005]

Consciousness: Creeping Up on the Hard Problem by Jeffrey Gray

Norman Bacrac becomes conscious of the merits of Jeffrey Gray’s new book.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

Encyclopedia of Ethics

Kenneth Shouler praises Lawrence and Charlotte Becker for producing an encyclopedia of ethics which is truly encyclopedic.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004]

Nonbelief and Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God by Theodore Drange

Charles Echelbarger explains the atheistic arguments of Theodore Drange.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004]

Philosophical Reasoning by Nicholas Rescher

James Thomas explores a pragmatic but idealistic book about truth by Nicholas Rescher.
[Issue 47: August/September 2004]

The Case Against the Democratic State by Gordon Graham & Democracy, Fascism and the New World Order by Ivo Mosley

What’s so hot about democracy? Edward Ingram considers two books which call it into question.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004]

Eroticism by Georges Bataille

Mark Price uncovers an urgent, thrusting book about love, sex, death and spirituality by Georges Bataille.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004]

After the Science Wars

Abdelkader Aoudjit reports on which beleaguered positions are still held After the Science Wars.
[Issue 45: March/April 2004]

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