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Volume 68, Number 3 (July 2007)
CONTENTS
Forum: Stefan Collini’s Absent Minds
Hazards of the Higher Debunkery JAMES ENGLISH 3
Stefan Collini, Virginia Woolf and the Question of Intellectuals in Britain BARBARA CAINE 11
News from Nowhere MICHAEL BENTLEY 18
The View from Calais JEREMY JENNINGS 25
Anatomy of a Cliché DANIEL RODGERS 35
Author’s Response STEFAN COLLINI 42 ___________________________
Commerce, Law and Erudite Culture: The Mechanics of Théodore Godefroy’s Service to Cardinal Richelieu ERIK THOMSON 56
“Facts, or Conjectures”: Antoine-Yves Goguet’s Historiography NATHANIEL WOLLOCH 87
John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution and Democracy DANIEL O’NEILL 117
Infallibility and Intentionality: Franz Brentano’s Diagnosis of German Catholicism RICHARD SCHAEFER 154
John von Neumann and Scientific Method SALIM RASHID 187
Books Received 229
Notices 237