Reviews for Westmoreland Law Journal (1914)

The average rating for Westmoreland Law Journal (1914) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-03 00:00:00 Lolo Lulan The book gives a good overview of the philosophy of religion and its history from 1700 onwards. It discusses most of the important figures in Western Religious Studies and is written in a fluent and eloquent manner. The book centers around the development of the terminology and angle points taken on religion in the Western world, specifically Germany, which is fascinating, but sometimes seems a bit one-sided. Furthermore, I enjoyed the beginning of the book where the philosophical base of Religious Studies is touched upon and the mind-body discussion, as well as the role of Religion in society and politics in past culture and society is discussed. I think the quality of this juxtaposition loses its glamour in the last chapters and could have made a better conclusion in line with the implications on current outcomes and situations in social and political life.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-08-18 00:00:00 Brian Grace Furbank seems to have discovered what he wanted to say about Diderot quite near the end of the book. Up to that point I thought that the author had merely typed out note cards that he had sequenced as one would sequence information in a biography - in roughly chronological order. Near the end I could discern Furbank's take on Diderot. So it seems that the book actually documents Furbank's process of learning and discovery of what he wished to say about his subject - acceptable, I suppose, in a first draft, but not in a completed manuscript. His biography would have been much more effective and engaging had he first developed his perspectives/themes and then allowed those judgements to guide his writing from the beginning of the book.