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Feuerbach and the Interpretation of Religion. By Van A. Harvey. Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought 1. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1995. ix + 319 pp.

To what extent Cortes's predictions of looming catastrophe for European civilization were realized is arguable in spite of the horrible disasters of the early twentieth century. Cortes foresaw the dangers of an all-powerful state based on secular, materialist values that reached their culmination in Hider's Germany and Stalin's Russia. But the history of western Europe since 1945 and eastern Europe since 1989 suggests that despite periods of catastrophe the old continent has more or less recovered its equilibrium. By the very nature of his profession, the historian tends to regard sweeping, catastrophic interpretations with a hefty grain of salt. This study of Donoso Cortes is informative, wideranging, and intelligent in its assessment of its subject. It is well worth reading.