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New Books in October

Authors and/or publishers sent me the following new books this month:

Xunzi:  the Complete Text, trans. and with an introduction by Eric L. Hutton (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Manipulation:  Theory and Practice edited by Christian Coons & Michael Weber (Oxford University Press, 2014).

Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 7 (Journals NB15-NB20) edited by N.J. Cappelorn et al. (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Genealogy of the Tragic:  Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy by Joshua Billings (Princeton University Press, 2014).

Perception and Its Modalities edited by Dustin Stokes, Mohan Matthen & Stephen Biggs (Oxford University Press, 2015).

The Birth of Hedonism:  The Cyrenaic Philosophers and Pleasure as a Way of Life by Kurt Lampe (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Pourquoi tolérer la religion? Une investigation philosophique et juridique by Brian Leiter, trans. by Louis Muskens (Geneva:  Editions Markus Haller, 2014).

On Romantic Love:  Simple Truths about a Complex Emotion by Berit Brogaard (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Leo Strauss:  Man of Peace by Robert Howse (Cambridge University Press, 2014).

Moocs by Jonathan Haber (MIT Press, 2014).

The Life of Roman Republicanism by Joy Connolly (Princeton University Press, 2015).

Nietzsche on Morality, 2nd edition, by Brian Leiter (Routledge, 2015).

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