A comprehensive index of philosophy book reviews
A comprehensive index of philosophy book reviews
3,975 reviews · 1963–2026
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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Metaphysical Club | Louis Menand | Alan Ryan | 2001-05-31 |
| The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care | Nina Bernstein | James Traub | 2001-05-17 |
| Two Faces of Liberalism | John Gray | Alan Ryan | 2001-05-17 |
| Bertrand Russell: The Ghost of Madness 1921–1970 | Ray Monk | Stuart Hampshire | 2001-05-17 |
| Ultimate Journey: Retracing the Path of an Ancient Buddhist Monk Who Crossed Asia in Search of Enlightenment | Richard Bernstein | Pico Iyer | 2001-05-17 |
| A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Mary Ann Glendon | Brian Urquhart | 2001-04-26 |
| Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality | Ronald Dworkin | Kwame Anthony Appiah | 2001-04-26 |
| The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright | edited by Frank X. Ryan | Louis Menand | 2001-04-26 |
| The Spirit of the Liturgy | Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger | Garry Wills | 2001-04-26 |
| Cardinal Ratzinger: The Vatican's Enforcer of the Faith | John L. Allen Jr. | Garry Wills | 2001-04-26 |
| Selected Works of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin | C.PP.S. edited by Alphonse P. Spilly | Garry Wills | 2001-04-26 |
| Development as Freedom | Amartya Sen | Paul Seabright | 2001-03-29 |
| Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms | Diane Ravitch | Alan Ryan | 2001-02-22 |
| We Always Treat Women Too Well [On est toujours trop bon avec les femmes] | Raymond Queneau. | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| å?uvres complètes, Volume One | Raymond Queneau | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| Zazie[Zazie dans le métro] | Raymond Queneau | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| Exercises in Style | translated from the French by Barbara Wright Raymond Queneau | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| Raymond Queneau (1985) | Allen Thiher | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| Odile | translated from the French by Carol Sanders Raymond Queneau | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| The Bark Tree[Le Chiendent] | Raymond Queneau | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| Stories & Remarks | Raymond Queneau | Roger Shattuck | 2001-02-22 |
| The Arcades Project | Walter Benjamin | J.M. Coetzee | 2001-01-11 |
| Selected Writings,Volume 2: 1927-1934 | Walter Benjamin | J.M. Coetzee | 2001-01-11 |
| Selected Writings, Volume 1: 1913-1926 Edmund Jephcott, Harry Zohn, and others. | Walter Benjamin | J.M. Coetzee | 2001-01-11 |
| A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. | James Chace | 2000-12-21 |
| The Gift in Sixteenth-Century France | Natalie Zemon Davis | Keith Thomas | 2000-12-21 |
| Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Societyin the Western World | Gregory Claeys, Lyman Tower Sargent edited by Roland Schaer | Anthony Grafton | 2000-11-30 |
| Barbarism and Religion Volume 1: The Enlightenments of Edward Gibbon, 1737-1764Volume 2: Narratives of Civil Government | J.G.A. Pocock | P. N. Furbank | 2000-11-30 |
| Karl Marx: A Life | Francis Wheen | Robert Skidelsky | 2000-11-16 |
| Freud’s Megalomania | Israel Rosenfield | Daniel Mendelsohn | 2000-11-02 |
| Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture | Michael A. Bellesiles | Edmund S. Morgan | 2000-10-19 |
| The Market Approach to Education: An Analysis of America's First Voucher Program | John F. Witte | Howard Gardner | 2000-10-19 |
| A Legacy of Learning: Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools | David T. Kearns and James Harvey. | Howard Gardner | 2000-10-19 |
| Inside Charter Schools: The Paradox of Radical Decentralization | edited by Bruce Fuller | Howard Gardner | 2000-10-19 |
| When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale | Edward B. Fiske and Helen F. Ladd | Howard Gardner | 2000-10-19 |
| Charter Schools in Action: Renewing Public Education | Chester E. Finn Jr. and Bruce V. Manno and Gregg Vanourek | Howard Gardner | 2000-10-19 |
| Not For Ourselves Alone:The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | Ken Burns and Paul Barnes | David Brion Davis | 2000-10-05 |
| Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony | Geoffrey C. Ward. based on the documentary film by Ken Burns and Paul Barnes | David Brion Davis | 2000-10-05 |
| Joyous Greetings: The First International Women's Movement, 1830-1860 | Bonnie S. Anderson | David Brion Davis | 2000-10-05 |
| God's Perfect Child: Living and Dying in the Christian Science Church | Caroline Fraser | Whitney Balliett | 2000-09-21 |
| Purgatorio | Dante Alighieri | Bernard Knox | 2000-09-21 |
| Pontius Pilate | Ann Wroe | Jasper Griffin | 2000-09-21 |
| Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community | Robert D. Putnam | Alan Ryan | 2000-08-10 |
| No Way to Pick a President | Jules Witcover | Lars-Erik Nelson | 2000-08-10 |
| Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us | Roderick P. Hart | Lars-Erik Nelson | 2000-08-10 |
| The Passion Play 2000: Oberammergau | with contributions by Otto Huber and Christian Stückl, photographs by Brigitte Maria Mayer edited by the Community of Oberammergau | Gordon A. Craig | 2000-08-10 |
| Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play | James Shapiro | Gordon A. Craig | 2000-08-10 |
| Serving the Word: Literalism in America from the Pulpit to the Bench | Vincent Crapanzano | Edmund S. Morgan | 2000-07-20 |
| Ethics into Action: Henry Spira and the Animal Rights Movement | Peter Singer | Ian Hacking | 2000-06-29 |
| The Lives of Animals | J.M. Coetzee | Ian Hacking | 2000-06-29 |