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• See French 17 (1996, 1995).

CAHIER, GABRIELLA et MATTEO CAMPAGNOLO, éds. Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genève, t. XII, 1614–1616. Genève: Droz, 1995.

Review: R. M. Kingdom in BHR 58 (1996), 757–58: "The text of the registers themselves make up only slightly more than half of this volume. They are followed by eighty-three annexes, most of them letters to or from the Company; also three appendices, letters to others but dealing with matters discussed by the Company; finally two addenda to previous volumes. One of these addenda is an extraordinarily irenic letter from Jean Hotman de Villiers that will be of particular interst to historians of ecumenicism. Most of this material has never before been published." Reviewer notes with regret the passing of G. Cahier and signals the importance of her contributions to this project.

• See French 17 (1996, 95, 93, 92).

CAMERON, KEITH et ELIZABETH WOODROUGH, eds. Ethics & Politics in Seventeenth-Century France: Essays in Honour of Derek A. Watts. Exeter: Exeter University Press, 1996.

Review: D. Shaw in MLR 92 (1997), 524: "Leading English and French scholars analyse the ethical and political framework of seventeenth-century French society from the twin perspectives of history and theatre."

CANTO SPERBER, MONIQUE, ed. Dictionnaire d'éthique et de philosophie morale. Paris: PUF, 1996.

Review: J. Lacoste in QL 706 (1996), 20–21: "Toutes les grandes philosophies morales sont ... passées en revue au fil des articles, depuis celle, fondatrice, d'Aristote jusqu'à Kant, en passant par Descartes (avec une présentation originale de Denis Kambouchner, auteur également de la notice sur les 'passions')."

CEYSSENS, LUCIEN. Le sort de la bulle Unigenitus. Recueil d'études offert à l'occasion de son 90e anniversaire. Leuven: University Press, 1992.

Review: H. Savon in RBPH 73 (1995), 1158–59: Quinze articles dont le centre d'intérêt est "la bulle Unigenitus, ses inspirateurs, les intentions qui ont présidé à sa rédaction et à sa promulgation, les résistances qu'elle a rencontrées, et les principaux artisans de son acceptation finale par l'Eglise de France."

CORRINGTON, ROBERT. Ecstatic Naturalism: Signs of the World. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana UP, 1995.

Review: C. Hookway in Semiotica 114 (1997), 169–180: In his attempt to understand the different "varieties of naturalism" in order to compare them with C.'s notion of "ecstatic naturalism," Hookway begins with a discussion of the problematic relationship between naturalism and Cartesian dualism: "We might suppose that Cartesian dualism could serve as a paradigm of what 'naturalists' reject: there are two distinct substances which have distinct explanatory principles, our knowledge of each conforming to different patterns. But once it is allowed that Cartesian minds can interact with Cartesian bodies in intelligible ways, the way is open for someone to argue that Descartes has discovered that 'nature' is richer than we vulgar physicalists had assumed." Part of the discussion which follows attempts to answer the questions, "On what basis do we decide that Cartesian minds are outside nature? When someone claims to be a 'naturalist,' what do we learn about their philosophical position?"

DASTON, LORRAINE. "The Cold Light of Facts and the Facts of Cold Light: Luminescence and the Transformation of the Scientific Fact, 1600–1750." EMF 3 (1997) 17–44.

D. "sheds light on factuality in science from 1600 to 1750 by exploring the idea of luminescence. Her comparative study of Robert Boyle and Charles Dufay—both cartesian, yet adepts of experimentalism—illustrates this arduous passage of fact from wonder to regularity."

DECLERCQ, GILLES. "Bon Sens et Bel Esprit. L'esprit de curiosité entre science et politesse." L'esprit en France au XVIIe siècle. PFSCL/Biblio 17, 101 (1997), 137–159.

"Nous chercherons donc à éclairer l'insolite conjonction du bel esprit et du bon sens, en lisant les propos [of Bouhours] d'Ariste et d'Eugène sur l'esprit de curiosité mondain à la lumière de la réflexion cartésienne sur la curiosité de l'esprit scientifique."

EAMON, WILLIAM. Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1994.

Review: A. Blair in RenQ 49 (1996), 177–79: Judged "accessible and intellectually engaging, clearly written and well researched," E.'s volume demonstrates the significance of books of secrets for the transition of the idea of experience as private to the more modern concept of experience as "collaborative experimentation." Reviewer underscores E.'s "lucid presentation" of these shifts; for the 17thc. it is the "program of actively and systematically uncovering the hidden workings of nature and their laws."

ELIADE, MIRCEA. Encyclopedia of Religion. CD ROM (requires Windows 3.1 or higher; Macintosh). New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1996.

Review: W. Fontaine in Choice 34.9 (1997), 1482: This new CD ROM "allows searching by author, title, or keyword... Each paragraph is treated as a separate document, so Boolean searches typically retrieve relevant results... The contents page and the synoptic index make the encylopedia relatively easy to browse, and all cross references are hyptertext linked.... "

ELM, KASPAR, ed. Bernhard von Clairvaux. Rezeption und Wirkung im Mittelalter und in der Neuzeit. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1994.

Review: E. D. Hehl in HZ 262 (1996), 805–806: 17th c. scholars will benefit from these proceedings of the 1990 Wolfenbuttel colloque, in particular from Jean Mesnard's essay on B. de Clairvaux's impact on Pascal and from Viviane Mellinghoff Bourgerie's essay on François de Sales.

FANLO, JEAN-RAYMOND, éd. La Responce de Michau l'aveugle. Suivi de la Réplique de Michau l'aveugle. Deux pamphlets théologiques anonymes publiés avec les pièces catholiques de la controverse. Paris: Honoré Champion, 1996.

Review: BCLF 580 (1997), 203: "L'ouvrage . . . offre un double intérêt: 1)il permet d'approfondir la connaissance d'un grand poète du XVIe siècle, Agrippa d'Aubigné (1552–1630), célèbre pour son engagement vigoureux du côté de la Réforme et 2) il apporte une pièce d'importance à l'histoire religieuse de la fin du siècle, au moment même où le futur Henri IV vient de se convertir (1593) au catholicisme après trente ans de guerre civile."

FELDMAN, SUSAN. "Second Person Scepticism." PhQ 47 (1997), 80–84.

F. refutes the argument of Lorraine Code, "one of several recent feminist epistemologists who link Cartesian style scepticism with the modern view of epistemic subject as detached from the world and separate from other subjects." F. maintains that "[W]e can develop a 'second person' radical scepticism, one which recognizes people as 'second persons,' sees people as epistemically interrelated and treats other people as epistemic subjects as well as objects and sources of belief, yet uses this very understanding to undercut the truth of knowledge claims." By constructing "a social version of Descartes' dream argument as reconstructed by Barry Stroud," F. shows that "use of society as the source and object of knowledge is no less scepticism inducing than the use of private mental states as the source and object of knowledge."

FOURNIER, MARIAN. The Fabric of Life: Microscopy in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1996.

Review: F. Sack in Choice 34 (1997), 1684: "Organized historically and illustrated with figures from original publications... well annotated and referenced and includes an extensive list of publications related to microscopy published from 1600 to 1750."

GUITTON, EDOUARD, éd. La culpabilité dans la littérature française. Travaux de littérature publiés par l'A.D.I.R.E.L., v. III. Paris: Klincksieck, 1995.

Review: J. Blanchard in BHR 58 (1996), 781–82: "Vingt-sept monographies mettent en évidence les scénarios originels de la culpabilité. De grandes masses importantes ressortent: Moyen age, renaissance, Grand Siècle, Lumières, romantisme et post-romantisme, Entre Deux Guerres." Voir l'article de G. Schreck: "La faute, 'l'anatomie', et le luth dans les Méditations sur les Pseaumes d'Agrippa d'Aubigné."

HENAFF, MARCEL. "Of Stones, Angels and Humans: Michel Serres and the Global City." Substance 27.2 (1997), 59–80.

An examination of several questions examined throughout in Serres's work: "the relations between local and global, between narrative and concept, science and philosophy, history and myth, solids and fluids." Includes remarks on Pascal: the definition of algorithm, H. remarks, "What Pascal and Leibniz discover anew and theorize in the seventeenth century are in fact very ancient practices of the Assyro Babylonians and the Arabs... or the merchants of the Middle Ages.... Those are the procedures that come back forcefully with computer calculations and programs. This novelty is in fact but 'the most ancient example of our forgetfulnesss'...."

HERSCHE, PETER. "'Klassizistischer' Katholizismus. Der konfessions geschichtliche Sonderfall Frankreich." HZ 262 (1996), 357–89.

Excellently documented and authoritative analysis of Catholicism of the Classical Era. Carefully delineates varying distinctives, relating the analysis to foreign and domestic politics of Louis XIV, the Huguenots, Jansenism, Gallicanism and sacred art. Pertinent quotations from Madame Palatine.

HILGAR, MARIE-FRANCE. "Fondation de la Congrégation des Filles du Saint-Esprit de la paroisse de Plérin." L'esprit en France au XVIIe siècle. PFSCL/Biblio 17, 101 (1997), 299–305.

Traces the history of the Congregation to the present time.

HUPPERT, GEORGE. "The Age of Philosophy." EMF 2 (1996) 16–28.

H. "explores the ideological implications of classical education in the sixteenth century by focusing on several heated debates which began in the 1540s and continued into the 1620s featuring the Parisian intellectual Pierre de La Ramée. For Huppert, a principal sign of the Early Modern is the emergence of the intellectual as dissident and of intellectual institutions as privileged spaces for propagating non-conformist thought."

KEARNS, JOHN T. Reconceiving Experience: A Solution to a Problem Inherited from Descartes. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1996.

Review: F. Wilson in Choice 34.7 (1997), 1176: "Descartes's problem, K. suggests, is how to reconcile a mechanistic account of nature and of our bodies with the facts about our ideas and, more basically, our sense experience of the world." His solution: "We must conceive of experience in terms of intentional acts of interpreting neural events in our bodies. The Cartesian dualism of substance is replaced by the earlier Aristotelian dualism of mechanical and teleological explanations." "Clearly written."

KREMER, ELMAR J., ed. The Great Arnauld and Some of His Philosophical Correspondents. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.

Review: W. Marceau in PFSCL 24 (1997), 595–596: A collection of studies centered around A.'s links with Descartes, Malebranche, Nicole, Suarez, St. Augustine and Thomas Aquinas.

LANDAU, IDDO. "Mendus on Philosophy and Persuasiveness." PhQ 47 (1997), 89–93.

L. responds to S. Mendus's reply to L.'s article, "How Androcentric is Western Philosophy?"

• See French 17 (1996).

LAUDE, PATRICK. "Malaval et la vision de l'esprit." L'esprit en France au XVIIe siècle. PFSCL/Biblio 17, 101 (1997), 283–290.

Presents Malaval's spirituality as "un harmonieux équilibre entre l'exigence intellective et l'extinction amoureuse de la sainte 'ignorance'; équilibre qui, loin de compromettre la profondeur et l'intensité de l'élan mystique, l'enracine en un sol véritablement 'gnostique'—au sens paulien d'une connaissance du coeur."

LEGRAND, FRANCIS JOSEPH,JOANNA KIRYLLO,FRANCOIS EVAIN, etCLAUDE FLIPO,trads. Commentaire des Exercices spirituels d'Ignace de Loyola (1590). Suivi de Abrégé de la perfection chrétienne (1588). Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1996.

Review: BCLF 577 (1996), 1852: "L'ouvrage est la traduction française de deux textes inédits du jésuite italien Achille Gagliardi (1537–1607)." G. "développe une mystique de l'anéantissement, de la déappropriation et de la déification qui inspirera Bérulle, Surin ou François de Sales. On le voit, Gagliardi est un témoin précieux du demi-siècle qui suit la mort d'Ignace, tout autant qu'un précurseur qui annonce l'Ecole française du XVIIe siècle."

LICOPPE, CHRISTIAN. La formation de la pratique scientifique. Le discours de l'expérience en France et en Angleterre, 1630–1820. Paris: La Découverte, 1996.

Review: BCLF 577 (1966), 1751: "L'un des buts de l'ouvrage consiste à comprendre comment le récit argumente pour construire, à partir de l'expérience particulière qu'il rapporte, un fait d'ordre général. L'auteur cherche à cette fin à établir une typologie des récits d'expérience selon les ressources rhétoriques auxquelles ils font appel."

MCCULLOCH, GREGORY. Using Sartre: An Analytical Introduction to Early Sartrean Themes. London/New York: Routledge, 1994.

Review: D. E. Cooper in PhQ 47 (1997), 101–103: "In broad terms, the strategy [of M.] is to translate Sartre's attack on classic Cartesianism into one on representationalism, the computational theory of the mind and, more generally, on 'objectivist' or scientific accounts of mind which, for M., are simply Cartesianism in new clothes. (He shows quite conclusively ... that Sartre, despite some of his terminology, offers a radically un Cartesian view of mind.)"

MCCULLOCH, GREGORY. The Mind and Its World. London/NY: Routledge, 1995.

Review: L. F. O'Brien in PhQ 47.188 (1997), 389–392: "The book aims to answer the question 'Is the mind separable from the body and the world around it?' ... M. holds that philosophy ... has, from Descartes up to contemporary analytical philosophy of mind, largely held that the mind is separable from the world. In M.'s view this is a mistake. The book's aim is to display the central commitments and distinctions that constitute the so-called Cartesian concept of mind ... and to present arguments against it and for an alternative conception." "Clearly written, with a strong narrative structure... avoids technicality ... easy and enjoyable to read. On the other hand, whilst the overall structure is made fairly clear, details of argument or developments of particular lines of thought are often missing. In particular, claims made that different, often on the surface very different, views converge in fundamentals, are at times not made out in sufficient detail for anything much more than an impression of connection to strike the reader."

MCNAMARA, JO ANN KAY. Sisters in Arms: Catholic Nuns Through Two Millenia. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1996.

Review: K. Kennelly in Choice 34 (1997), 812: "Sections on women religious in the Roman Empire, in the medieval, Reformation and early modern periods, and in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, develop the subject from a feminist vantage point with careful respect for sources."

MENSCH, JAMES RICHARD. Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal. University Park: Pennsylvania State UP, 1996.

Review: D. M. Maier in Choice 34.6 (1997): "M. argues that by rejecting Aristotelian philosophy, Cartesianism proposes new norms for acting and knowing; however, Cartesianism cannot account for its own founding norms... M. reverses the Cartesian priority of knowing before being...."

NEIVA, EDUARDO. "Remembrance, Like Rembrandt, Is Dark But Festive." Semiotica 114 (1997), 319–391.

In order to demonstrate "the demand for ... a comprehensive theory of signs," N. examines various historical evidence for "the presumed association between Rembrandt and Spinoza" as a springboard for the discussion of a more general issue in historical analysis. He asks, "[W]hat to do: to force uniformities or else to relish ruptures?" This question leads to an examination of Foucault's Order of Things and in particular of Foucault's choice of Port Royal's Logique and Grammaire as representative of the classical period. N. concludes this section of his article by stating, "[W]hen considered side by side, the nuances of representations created by the seventeenth century are amazingly distinct. Spinoza, Rembrandt and Port Royal show no unity. Their dominant sense may well be precisely this dispersion. At close range, it is impossible to recognize the action of a common historical undercurrent, uniformed as a set of conventions."

OBERMEIER, FRANZ. Französische Brasilienreiseberichte im 17. Jahrhundert. Claude d'Abbeville: Histoire de la mission (1614). Yves d'Evreux: Suitte de l'Histoire (1615). Bonn: Romanistischer Verlag, 1995.

Review: F. Moureau in RF 108 (1996), 285–86: Erudite examination of these two accounts by Capucin fathers treats colonial practices, religious prejudices and, in the second account, a taste for description and sensitivity to the Indians and their "capacité d'adaptation qui justifie certes la conversion."

PAGES, PIERRE-ETIENNE. "Ces écrivains qu'on appelle moralistes." RDM (avril 1997), 93–114.

Etude de quatre moralistes marquants du XVIIe–XVIIe siècles: La Bruyère, La Rochefoucauld, Chamfort, et Vauvenargues. "Mais le problème de la relation de la morale et des moralistes ne serait qu'une curiosité littéraire s'il n'intéressait une querelle autrement vive et actuelle: peut-on conduire l'homme, et ou, sans connaìtre sa nature, diverse apparemment, et comment la connaître sans considération de l'individualité empirique? Comment bâtir les moeurs sans la morale, et la morale en dépit des moeurs, des couleurs et des goûts?"

PORTER, ROY and MIKULAS TEICH, eds. The Scientific Revolution in National Context. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.

Review: W. Hardtwig in HZ 263 (1996), 216–17: France between 1500 and 1700 is included in this interpretation of the scientific revolution. Helpful, comparative approach.

REISS, TIMOTHY J. "Meaning in Sixteenth-Century Grammar and Rhetoric: Fabri, Tory, Palsgrave." EMF 2 (1996) 129–69.

R. "argues that an essential element of modernity appeared in the solution of eclectic humanist heirs of scholasticism when they faced the problem of an infinite regress of language and non-linguistic phenomena even while expressing notions and kinds of mastery in which an ordered vernacular would have a civic part of central importance."

ROSSI, PAOLO. Les philosophes et les machines, 1400–1700. Trad. de l'italien par P. Vighetti (1ère éd. 1962; 2e éd. 1971). Paris: PUF, 1996.

Review: BCLF 580 (1997), 96: L'auteur "ambitionne de saisir, plus largement, comment des conceptions générales, plus diffuses, de la science et de la technique, la place que diverses sociétés ont réservée aux savants et aux techniciens, les institutions au sein desquelles ils ont travaillé, leurs manières de pratiquer leur activité, la composition des groupes qu'ils ont formés, ont pu faire l'objet de mutations." On regrette "que l'ouvrage n'ait pas au moins été complété par une bibliographie critique, alors que le thème a fait l'objet d'un intérêt soutenu au cours des années 1990."

ROWAN, MARY. "Manifestations of Mind as Wit and Intellect: Marie-Eléanore de Rohan and Jacqueline Bouëtte de Blémur." L'esprit en France au XVIIe siècle. PFSCL/Biblio 17, 101 (1997), 291–298.

Studies the convent as an intellectual and publication center.

SAINT-LOUP, AUDE DE. "A History of Misunderstandings: The History of the Deaf." Diogenes 175 (1996), 1–25.

Includes brief references to France's treatment of the deaf: "Religious communities continued to welcome the deaf. One of their number, who became an architect in the second half of the seventeenth century, decided to remain among the Prémontré monks of Amiens and to take up the education of young deaf children himself." "Home tutors were in particularly strong demand.... This was a long standing approach, which flourished under the Ancien Régime, but not always to the advantage of the deaf."

SCHIFFMAN, ZACHARY S. "The Origins of Early Modern Historical Consciousness." EMF 2 (1996) 79–100.

"For S., the individualizing view, which emphasizes the haeccitas or 'thisness' of entities marks the origin of Early Modern historical consciousness. But this new sense of uniqueness was not paired with a systematic idea of historical development. Indeed, S. argues, the dominant notion of historical change remained that of Aristotelian unfolding, and historical methodology remained analytical and classificatory."

SCHLAGEL, RICHARD H. From Myth to Modern Mind: A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought. Volume 2: Copernicus Through Quantum Mechanics. New York: P. Lang, 1996.

Review: M. G. Prasad in Choice 34 (1997), 1684: Includes a presentation of the "great contributions" of Descartes, among others.

SCHLANGER, JACQUES. "The Philosopher and His Mask." Diogenes 157 (1992), 97–112.

Opens with a discussion of Descartes' statement "Larvatus prodeo" ("I go forth masked"). S. examines the relationship between private speech and public discourse, and the philosopher's need for a mask in philosophical writing, first in Descartes, but particularly in Wittgenstein.

SIMON, GERARD. Sciences et savoirs aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles. Villeneuve-d'Ascq: PU du Septentrion, 1996.

Review: BCLF 581 (1997), 403: Recueil d'articles publiés au cours des quinze dernières années qui "portent essentiellement sur la période de la naissance de la science classique. Par opposition à ceux qui partent, armés de concepts et de théories contemporaines, à la pêche d'antécédents dans les sources anciennes, en sélectionnant les extraits où ils reconnaissent leur objet pour rejeter dans l'ombre les éléments qui refusent de se conformer aux cadres définis a priori." G. Simon veut restituer les oeuvres à leur intégralité.

TAVENEAUX, RENE, éd. Saint Pierre Fourier en son Temps. Actes du Colloque organisé à Mirecourt, les 13 et 14 avril 1991, par le diocése de Saint-Die et l'Université de Nancy II. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1992.

Review: H. Savon in RBPH 73 (1995), 1160–61: "La grande idée du colloque de Mirecourt a été de montrer en la personne de Pierre Fourier (1565–1640), pendant quarante ans curé de Mattaincourt, modeste paroisse lorraine, l'un des meilleurs représentants de cette Réforme catholique dont le concile de Trente avait fixé la doctrine et le programme."

TAVENEAUX, RENE. Jansénisme et Réforme catholique. Recueil d'articles. Nancy: Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1992.

Review: H. Savon in RBPH 73 (1995), 1159–60: ". . . R. Taveneaux est l'un de ceux qui, depuis quelques décennies, ont jeté un regard neuf sur l'école de Port-Royal. Cette nouveauté consiste d'abord à ne pas séparer le jansénisme de tout ce qui l'entoure et qui l'explique: les classes sociales où il s'est recruté, les choix politiques, l'héritage discuté de l'humanisme . . ., le 'renfermement' des pauvres . . ., les nouvelles méthodes d'éducation."

VAN ECK, CAROLINE A., JAMES MCALLISTER & RENEE VAN DE VALL, eds. The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.

Review: J. Carney in PhQ 47 (1997), 244–246: This collection of essays examines "the intimate relation between styles in the arts and styles in philosophy and science." "Berel Lang's essay reinterprets philosophers such as Plato, Descartes and Kant, who professed to be styleless, in terms of their style."

Review: J. R. Di Leo in P&L 21 (1997), 187–188: D. notes, "Questions of style do tend to arise in connections with philosophers of the literary sort Plato or Kierkegaard. Now philosophers have much less difficulty regarding as philosophical a work such as Pascal's Pensées, which has traditionally been treated more as literature than as philosophy."

VAN KLEY, DALE K. The Religious Origins of the French Revolution: From Calvin to the Civil Constitution, 1560–1791. New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.

Review: V. G. Wexler in Choice 34 (1997), 859: "Seventeenth century absolutism was more than defensive.... No matter how distracted Louis XIV might have been by the Jansenists, he became the very model of absolutism, particularly because he effectively repressed religious opposition." "An original, solid scholarly performance."

VÖLKEL, MARKUS. Römische Kardinalshaushalte des 17. Jahrhunderts. Borghese Barberini Chigi. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1993.

Review: P. Burschel in HZ 262 (1996), 599–601: Study has import for history of society as it examines descent, service and careers of those families. 17th c. French scholars will be particularly interested in development on Barberini and the French legation.