The concept of reality /

Pivcvevi;c (University of Bristol) has published several works in English and German on phenomenology. In The Concept of Reality he attempts to sketch a phenomenological metaphysics, in which reality is seen, not as made up of substances and their attributes, but as a structure of structures. In working this out, Pivcvevi;c discusses metaphysical notions like existence, individuation, time, error, and objectivity. Surprisingly, he hardly mentions other phenomenologists but does discuss the positions of various analytic philosophers. We could say that just as Peter Strawson tried, in his Individuals; An Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics (London: 1959), to delineate the metaphysics of the analytic approach, Pivcvevi;c wants to do the same for phenomenology. Writing in the analytic style, his exposition is clear and well organized but also, necessarily, abstruse and complex, so that his readers will be mostly professional philosophers and graduate students. Recommended for graduate collections.-G.J. Dalcourt, Seton Hall University