This volume is advertised as 'confronting the current debate between philosophy and its history'. What it turns out to contain is a series of lectures with the general title 'Philosophy in History' which were delivered at Johns Hopkins University during 1982-3, aided by a subvention from the enlightened Exxon Education Foundation. All the papers are of interest, some of major interest; the prospective reader should, however, be warned that this is not a book but a series of lectures, and that the level of sophistication required of the reader varies greatly from lecture to lecture.

LRB 20 March 1986 | PDF Download