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'Fundamental Rights: History of a Constitutional Doctrine' by Milton R. Konvitz is reviewed.

Intro -- Contents of Volume Two -- A Brief Introduction to Volume Two -- Part 3. The Doctrine of the Meaning of Human Life -- 13. Freedom -- 14. Humanity -- 15. Will -- 16. Right -- 17. Morality -- 18. Ethical Life -- 19. On Personhood and Its Virtue -- 20. On the State -- 21. The Limit of the Human -- 22. Conclusion: The Crisis of Theodicy -- Bibliographic Appendix -- Table of Page Equivalents for the Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion -- Glossary

The text is divided in two phases. In the first phase, consisting of three parts, the main concepts of Kant's Doctrine of Right are considered in a comprehensive approach related to: the issue of the relations between natural right and positive right, problem closely connected to that of the relations between natural state and civil state, private right and public right; to the doctrine of property and its connection with political right. on treating the right in its several types, we intend to appoint the practical reasoning as a background of the Doctrine. In the second phase, concerning its last section, the consideration on the presence of the practical reasoning into the right is placed before some specificities of Kant's phylosophy of history, with the intent of establishing the possible relation between Rechtslehre and that philosophy.

In The Demise of the Early Frankfurt School: A Lost Document, Bill Scheuerman (U Pittsburgh, PA) introduces a document written by Marcuse & Neumann in 1941, which is reprinted here. Marcuse & Neumann illuminate the early history of the Frankfurt school & offer insights into the development & ultimate disintegration of the Instit for Social Research. Efforts toward the development of a conception of social change are reviewed. W. Howard