Trousson, Raymond / Vercruysse, Jeroom (dir.), Dictionnaire general de Voltaire. (Champion classiques, references et dictionnaires 18) 1272 p. 2020:10 (Champion, FR) <670-9>
ISBN 978-2-38096-016-7 paper ¥7,064.- (税込) EUR 38.00

往復書簡集におけるW.E.B.デュボイスとM.ヴェーバー
Chandler, Nahum Dimitri, The Possible Form of an Interlocution: W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in Correspondence. 224 pp. 2025:10 (Duke U. Pr., US) <748-836>
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In The Possible Form of an Interlocution, Nahum Dimitri Chandler provides an epistemological and theoretical elaboration of the correspondence between W. E. B. Du Bois and Max Weber in 1904 and 1905. Their interlocution took place under the heading of Du Bois's famous formulation "the problem of the color line." This study takes as its incipient reference Weber's statement to Du Bois that "I am absolutely convinced that the 'color-line' problem will be the paramount problem of the time to come, here and everywhere in the world." Chandler provides a concise statement of Du Bois's idea of "the problem of the color line" as a general formulation for understanding African American matters within modern historicity on a worldwide scale. He then examines Weber's earliest writings to understand in just what way "the 'color-line' problem," served as a problematization for Weber in both his thought and itinerary, across the 1890s and through the time of his interlocution with Du Bois

パレートのエリートの権力及び社会の二極化論を再読する
Marshall, Alasdair J., Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation: A Critical Perspective on Metapolitics and Democracy. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 360 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-540>
ISBN 978-1-041-06446-6 hard ¥39,352.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Assessing Vilfredo Pareto's sociological reworkings of Machiavelli's Fox and Lion animal spirits as friend-enemy codings, this book offers a unique insight into the growing division today between relatively liberal elites and relatively conservative non-elites.Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation utilises key ideas common to Pareto's elite theory, general sociology and theory of demagogic plutocracy, and fleshes out a unique perspective for making sense of contemporary societal bipolarisation in terms of friend-enemy codings. The first part of the book explores what Pareto's core ideas are and outlines why they matter today. The second part considers how we might elaborate and apply Pareto's concept of 'open elites' to reverse contemporary societal bipolarisation and build safer and more mature democracies. The third part explains how we can apply Pareto to predict further deterioration towards fundamental social conflict - such that Pareto's sociological imagination becomes risk imagination we desperately need today.For academics and students across the domains of sociology, political science and social science in general, the book warns of widespread elite-institutional bias in their research and points to Pareto's neutral and balanced approach as a corrective - offering a uniquely Paretian view of minimal criteria for democracy, as well as a uniquely balanced analytical perspective for making sense of our 'culture war'.