<i>The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Pynchon</i> (review)

The Cambridge companion to

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, US, xvii + 550 pp.— therein: Ivor Grattan-Guinness. Mathematics in and behind Russell’s logicism, and its reception. Pp. 51–83. Richard Cartwright. Russell and Moore: 1895–1905. Pp. 108–127. Peter Hylton. The theory of descriptions. Pp. 202–240. Martin Godwyn and Andrew D. Irvine. Bertrand Russell’s logicism. Pp. 171–201. Michael Beaney. R...

The Cambridge companion to Freud

found out that, as a Jew, his aims were thwarted. Thus, he started working as a practical neurologist in Frankfurt and built up a private anatomical laboratory in order to continue his systematic and comparative studies of the brain. Only in 1914-four years before his death-was his Neurological Institute incorporated into the new University and Edinger made a professor. Dr. Emisch's book is div...

The Cambridge Companion to ATHEISM

The Cambridge Companion to Dewey

In a typical book review, I would look for and examine what is new about a particular thinker’s idea or presentation. However, as I read Th e Cambridge Companion to Dewey I fi nd that I cannot and should not use the same criteria for evaluation. I pick up a Cambridge Companion when I need an introduction or a refresher on material—not when I need to see what the cutting-edge scholarship is. Th ...

The Cambridge Companion to the GUITAR