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| Book Title | Author | Reviewer | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gesamtausgabe (Collected Edition) projected 70-volume set | Martin Heidegger | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-12-04 |
| Criminals and Victims: A Trial Judge Reflects on Crime and Punishment | Lois G. Forer | Graham Hughes | 1980-11-20 |
| Fire in the Minds of Men: Origins of the Revolutionary Faith | James H. Billington | Peter Singer | 1980-11-06 |
| Language and Learning: The Debate between Jean Piaget and Noam Chomsky | edited by Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini | Ian Hacking | 1980-10-23 |
| Rules and Representations | Noam Chomsky | Ian Hacking | 1980-10-23 |
| Radical Principles: Reflections of an Unreconstructed Democrat | Michael Walzer | J.M. Cameron | 1980-10-23 |
| Authority | Richard Sennett | J.M. Cameron | 1980-10-23 |
| Sigmund Freud's Dreams | Alexander Grinstein | Edward Rothstein | 1980-10-09 |
| Freud: The Man and the Cause | Ronald W. Clark | Edward Rothstein | 1980-10-09 |
| Nietzsche: A Critical Life | Ronald Hayman | J.M. Cameron | 1980-10-09 |
| Marxism: For and Against | Robert L. Heilbroner | Peter Singer | 1980-09-25 |
| Karl Marx and the Anarchists | Paul Thomas | Peter Singer | 1980-09-25 |
| Marx on the Choice between Socialism and Communism | Stanley Moore | Peter Singer | 1980-09-25 |
| The Two Marxisms: Contradictions and Anomalies in the Development of Theory | Alvin W. Gouldner | Peter Singer | 1980-09-25 |
| Marxism After Marx | David McLellan | Peter Singer | 1980-09-25 |
| Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections | edited by Alice Kimball Smith | David Joravsky | 1980-07-17 |
| Conscience and Convenience: The Asylum and Its Alternatives in Progressive America | David J. Rothman | David Brion Davis | 1980-06-26 |
| The Rise and Fall of the Shah | Amin Saikal | Shaul Bakhash | 1980-06-26 |
| Iran: From Religious Dispute to Revolution | Michael M.J. Fischer | Shaul Bakhash | 1980-06-26 |
| Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke, and Proust | Paul de Man | Denis Donoghue | 1980-06-12 |
| Deconstruction and Criticism | Harold Bloom and Paul de Man and Jacques Derrida and Geoffrey H. Hartman and J. Hillis Miller | Denis Donoghue | 1980-06-12 |
| An Ungovernable People: The English and Their Law in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | edited by John Brewer | Lawrence Stone | 1980-05-29 |
| Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution | Leszek Kolakowski | Steven Lukes | 1980-05-29 |
| Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology | Daniel C. Dennett | Douglas R. Hofstadter | 1980-05-29 |
| Practical Ethics | Peter Singer | H.L.A. Hart | 1980-05-15 |
| Friedrich Nietzsche | J.P. Stern | Philippa Foot | 1980-05-01 |
| Nietzsche's Gift | Harold Alderman | Philippa Foot | 1980-05-01 |
| Nietzsche Volume One: The Will to Power as Art | Martin Heidegger | Philippa Foot | 1980-05-01 |
| A Night of Serious Drinking | René Daumal | Michael Wood | 1980-04-17 |
| The Future of Intellectuals and the Rise of the New Class | Alvin W. Gouldner | Michael Walzer | 1980-03-20 |
| The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power | George Konrád and Ivan Szelényi | Michael Walzer | 1980-03-20 |
| The Idea of Freedom: Essays in Honour of Isaiah Berlin | edited by Alan Ryan | Jonathan Lieberson Sidney Morgenbesser | 1980-03-20 |
| Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas | Isaiah Berlin | Jonathan Lieberson Sidney Morgenbesser | 1980-03-20 |
| The Invisible Victim | Robert Reiff | Graham Hughes | 1980-03-06 |
| Against the Current: Essays in the History of Ideas | Isaiah Berlin | Sidney Morgenbesser Jonathan Lieberson | 1980-03-06 |
| Utopian Thought in the Western World | Frank E. Manuel and Fritzie P. Manuel | Harry Levin | 1980-03-06 |
| The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court | Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong | Anthony Lewis | 1980-02-07 |
| Jesus, An Experiment in Christology | Edward Schillebeeckx | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-02-07 |
| Kirche-Gehalten in der Wahrheit? | [The Church-Maintained in Truth?] Hans Küng | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-02-07 |
| Declaration on Some Major Points in the Theological Doctrine of Professor Hans Küng | the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-02-07 |
| On Historians: Reappraisals of Some of the Masters of Modern History | J.H. Hexter | Quentin Skinner | 1980-01-24 |
| Reappraisals in History: New Views on History and Society in Early Modern Europe | J.H. Hexter | Quentin Skinner | 1980-01-24 |
| Vu de droite | Alain de Benoist | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-01-24 |
| Les idées à l'endroit | Alain de Benoist | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-01-24 |
| Le testament de Dieu | Bernard-Henri Lévy | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-01-24 |
| Barbarism with a Human Face | Bernard-Henri Lévy | Thomas Sheehan | 1980-01-24 |
| Karl Marx's Theory of History: A Defence | G.A. Cohen | Peter Singer | 1979-12-20 |
| Marx's Theory of History | William H. Shaw | Peter Singer | 1979-12-20 |
| Marx's Interpretation of History | Melvin Rader | Peter Singer | 1979-12-20 |
| Marx and History: From Primitive Society to the Communist Future | D. Ross Gandy | Peter Singer | 1979-12-20 |