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

ホッブズとロールズの欧州統合論
Rolf, Jan Niklas, Hobbes and Rawls on European Integration: A Contractarian Perspective. (International Political Theory) 175 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-9>
ISBN 978-3-031-96858-7 hard ¥34,646.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers a contractarian reading of the European integration process that corroborates, complements and, on occasion, contests European integration theory. It argues that the social contract theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls provide us with insufficiently exploited clues to the formation and justification of European supranational institutions and redistributive instruments. An advanced understanding of the normative foundations of European integration seems to be all the more important in times of multiple crises, differentiated integration and even disintegration - all accompanied and accelerated by the growth of Euroscepticism and anti-European parties.

懐疑主義と自然主義－ヒューム、ウィトゲンシュタイン、ストローソン
Hyman, John / Thorne, Michael (eds.), Scepticism and Naturalism: Hume, Wittgenstein, Strawson. (Brill Studies in Skepticism 6) 332 pp. 2025:10 (Brill, NE) <754-8>
ISBN 978-90-04-73287-2 hard ¥49,252.- (税込) EUR 199.00

In this volume, a group of scholars from moral philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy explore the idea of naturalism as it occurs in the celebrated responses to scepticism offered by David Hume, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and P.F. Strawson. Philosophers have long been puzzled by the fact that each of these figures approaches scepticism by emphasising certain general facts about human nature. There has also been a debate over how these philosophers' discussions of scepticism were shaped by their wider views on naturalism as a philosophical orientation that prioritises the natural sciences. This is the first volume to offer a comprehensive and comparative exploration of the guiding themes of scepticism and naturalism in the work of these three great figures.

ロックの宗教的認識論とその批判者
Rockwood, Nathan, Locke's Religious Epistemology and Its Critics. (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) 214 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-17>
ISBN 978-1-041-06367-4 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book offers a sustained defense of Locke's religious epistemology. It puts Locke into conversation with leading figures in contemporary religious epistemology and shows that Locke's views are more plausible than many philosophers of religion and epistemologists realize. Locke has become the villain in contemporary religious epistemology. In recent years, Locke has often been singled out and criticized for insisting that religious belief requires evidence and for failing to provide adequate evidence that would support rational belief in God and Christianity. This book defends a broadly Lockean religious epistemology. The author argues that we need evidence for religion and that there is good evidence supporting belief in God and Christianity. He discusses Locke's views on the evidence from natural theology, religious experience, the testimony of miracles, and scripture. In each chapter, the author contrasts Locke's view on a type of evidence with one of his critics: Michael Bergmann, David Hume, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, and Linda Zagzebski. At the end of each chapter, the author shows how a Bayesian analysis of evidence can support Locke's evidence for religious belief, and specifically a belief in Christianity. This defense of Locke's position shows how his religious epistemology continues to be relevant in contemporary debates. Locke's Religious Epistemology and Its Critics is a historically informed contribution to religious epistemology. It will appeal to researchers and graduate students working in epistemology, philosophy of religion, and history of philosophy.

Webel, Charles P., The Reality of This World. Volume Two: The Fate of This World and The Future of Humanity. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 206 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-18>
ISBN 978-1-032-20668-4 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Reality of this World analyzes one of the most influential concepts known to humanity-- "the world"-- focusing primarily on the material conditions of our existence. It is the companion to The World as Idea: A Conceptual History (Routledge, 2022). Together, the two volumes constitute "The Fate of This World and the Future of Humanity."In this book, Charles P. Webel examines the theories and policies that have constructed the world as it is. He proposes strategies for transforming it into a more equitable and sustainable habitat both for humans and for the other species with whom we co-exist on Earth. In doing so, he describes how the social and natural sciences, as well as philosophy and the humanities, have abetted our understanding of this world and explores why globalization and rationalization, as well as such "alternative realities" as digital and AI technologies, may simultaneously advance our collective well-being while also putting life on Earth at existential risk. In conclusion, Webel proposes political and other solutions to mitigate such risks.The Reality of this World will be of great interest to scholars in fields ranging from philosophy and intellectual history to political and social theory, as well as to students and a general public interested in understanding and transforming our world.

Ghorbel, Hichem, Diderot: le beau et l'art du pinceau. (Histoires et idees des arts) 205 p. 2025:6 (L'Harmattan, FR) <753-14>
ISBN 978-2-336-51982-1 paper ¥5,445.- (税込) EUR 22.00

G.Gordon著　D.ヒュームとアバディーンの哲学者たち－T.リード、G.キャンベル、A.ジェラード、J.ビーティー－
Graham, Gordon, David Hume and the Aberdeen Philosophers: Reid, Campbell, Gerard, Beattie. (Edinburgh Studies in Scottish Philosophy) 192 pp. 2025:5 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <753-15>
ISBN 978-1-3995-4161-9 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

David Hume is the most famous philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet his prominence in the history of philosophy has had the unhappy effect of overshadowing some of the most insightful critics amongst his contemporaries. This book aims to restore the philosophical credentials of a remarkable set of eighteenth-century philosophers based in Aberdeen's two university colleges. In their own time, Thomas Reid, George Campbell, Alexander Gerard and James Beattie provided compelling counters to the intellectual dominance of Hume's Edinburgh. Though they are now largely neglected, all four prove to be philosophers of striking critical acumen. Their work can still cast fresh light on Hume's influential contribution to the enduring philosophical questions of morality, religion, aesthetics and politics.

P.Marshall著　トマス・モア入門
Marshall, Peter, Thomas More: A Very Short Introduction. (Very Short Introductions) 160 pp. 2026:3 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <753-16>
ISBN 978-0-19-284317-3 paper ¥1,969.- (税込)

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Thomas More is an enduringly fascinating and profoundly controversial figure. A brilliant scholar, his Utopia of 1516 dared to imagine how society might be completely reordered. At the same time, his hatred of the Reformation caused him to advocate, and seek to implement, the death penalty for heretics. A friend and advisor to Henry VIII, More's refusal to support Henry's break with Rome led to his execution in 1535, and the start of a long argument about his legacy. This Very Short Introduction assesses More's life, writings and achievements, and examines changing views of his character, in both historical interpretation and various works of fiction. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Caroline Breashears, The Practical Morality of Life: Adam Smith, George Anne Bellamy, and the Theatre. 168 pp. 2025:5 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <753-13>
ISBN 978-1-3995-4067-4 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

The economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith was committed to 'a practical system of Morality'. George Anne Bellamy was a well-known actress of the eighteenth century, who published a best-selling memoir. Coming from completely different backgrounds, they both keenly observed their world-human nature, morality and exchange. Reading Smith's final edition of The Theory of Moral Sentiments in relation to the Apology of George Anne Bellamy illuminates many of Smith's final revisions, in particular the impartial spectator, the temptations of ambition, the character of virtue and female education. Considering her book in relation to Smith deepens our understanding of her narrative strategies and the history of an early theatre near Glasgow. The book opens a vital window into the socio-historical context of Smith's and broader enlightenment philosophies.

ルソーと近代の政治学
Beyssade, Jean-Marie, Rousseau et la politique des modernes. (Bibliotheque d'histoire de la philosophie) 280 p. 2025:4 (Vrin, FR) <751-9>
ISBN 978-2-7116-3169-8 paper ¥7,177.- (税込) EUR 29.00

R.フォイクト編　危機の兆候におけるリヴァイアサン　第2版
Voigt, Ruediger (Hrsg.), Der Leviathan: Der Leviathan im Zeichen der Krise. 2., vollstaendig ueberarb. Aufl. (Staatsverstaendnisse 1) 313 S. 2025:1 (Nomos, GW) <751-15>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0640-3 paper ¥19,552.- (税込) EUR 79.00

?Der Staat ist tot ? es lebe der Staat“. Mit diesen auf die Kontinuitaet von Monarchien gemuenzten Worten laesst sich der Gegenstand der Staatsdiskussion treffend beschreiben. Der bereits totgesagte ?Leviathan“ erweist sich als erstaunlich lebendig. Zwar kann heute in den liberalen Demokratien des Westens von einem starken Staat kaum die Rede sein. Eines steht jedoch fest: Zur Aufrechterhaltung des inneren Friedens ist ein Kernbestand staatlicher Ordnungsmacht unverzichtbar. Dies ist das grosse Thema von Thomas Hobbes (1588 ? 1679) und seinem Leviathan aus dem Jahre 1651. Es lohnt sich also, sich mit dem englischen Staatsdenker Hobbes und seinem umfangreichen Werk zu beschaeftigen. In zwoelf Beitraegen wird gezeigt, dass Hobbes‘ Gedanken auch am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts nichts von ihrer Anziehungskraft verloren haben. Der oft genug bereits totgesagte Leviathan ist so lebendig, aber auch so kontrovers wie bei seiner Geburt. Der vorliegende Band ist die ueberarbeitete und durch neue Beitraege ergaenzte Neuauflage des Buches ?Der Leviathan“, dessen Vorauflage 2000 bei Nomos erschienen ist. Mit Beitraegen von Armin Adam, Andreas Anter, Olaf Asbach, Horst Bredekamp, Norbert Campagna, Dieter Huening, Wolfgang Kersting, Hermann Klenner, Bernd Ludwig, Henning Ottmann, Peter Schroeder und Ruediger Voigt.

古典主義時代における歴史について考え書き記す－C.ヴォルピャック＝オジェ記念論集
Mericam-Bourdet, Myrtille (dir.), Penser et ecrire l'histoire a l'age classique: Hommage a Catherine Volpilhac-Auger. (Les dix-huitiemes siecles) 490 p. 2025:4 (Champion, FR) <751-11>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6438-8 paper ¥16,087.- (税込) EUR 65.00

ヒュームの『人間本性論』－批判的案内
Radcliffe, Elizabeth S. (ed.), Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature: A Critical Guide. (Cambridge Critical Guides) 300 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <751-12>
ISBN 978-1-009-21809-2 hard ¥21,697.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in 1739, was his first major work of philosophy, and his only systematic, scientific analysis of human nature. It is now regarded as a classic work in the history of western thought and a key text in philosophical empiricism, scepticism, and naturalism. This Critical Guide offers fourteen new essays on the work by established and emerging Hume scholars, ranging over Hume's epistemology and philosophy of mind, ethics and the passions, and the early reception of the Treatise. Topics include Hume's treatment of the passion of curiosity, the critical responses to his account of how we acquire belief in external objects, and his depiction of the human tendency to view the world in inegalitarian ways and its impact on our view of virtue. The volume will be valuable for scholars and students of Hume studies and eighteenth-century philosophy.

A.スミスの『国富論』入門
Rommel, Thomas / Winter, Helen, Adam Smith: The Wealth of Nations: An Introduction. (Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy) 175 pp. 2025:5 (Springer, GW) <751-13>
ISBN 978-3-031-91618-2 hard ¥24,746.- (税込) EUR 99.99

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to Adam Smith, one of the most important economic thinkers. His seminal work The Wealth of Nations is a classic text in philosophy, social sciences and economics. This introduction puts Smith's central ideas on the division of labour, the invisible hand and the market into context. A careful analysis of key passages from Smith's writings explains how he arrived at a theory of society and the market that has become central to our understanding of human motives. The discussion of Smith's The Wealth of Nations is followed by sources from the 18th century that shaped Smith's analysis of human motives and propensities. This introduction is indispensable reading for an informed discussion of the mechanisms that govern human society. It provides an introduction to Adam Smith as one of the most astute thinkers of the 18th century, whose ideas shape modern concepts of the market, making it ideal as course material in courses such as economics, history, political sciences, sociology, literary studies, philosophy.

Tiedemann, Markus, Post-Enlightenment-Society: What we are losing and what lies ahead. XII, 196 S. 2025:4 (Mentis, GW) <751-14>
ISBN 978-3-95743-339-8 paper ¥9,874.- (税込) EUR 39.90

Enlightenment is the noblest achievement that mankind has ever created. Its essence lies in the pursuit of objectivity and intersubjective justification. It is an elitist minority project to which large parts of humanity owe enormous benefits. Nevertheless, the end of the second Enlightenment era can currently be observed. This is due to the immense burdens of an emancipated way of life, as well as current political and sociological stress factors. These include a capitalistically reduced understanding of freedom, rising migration trends, a weakening defense of universal ethics, and an anti-racism devoid of an awareness of negative dialectics. This erosion brings about a return to the standard authoritarian models of humanity, coupled with the technical and media potential of modernity. It is time to look back in gratitude and to take a critical look at what lies ahead.

ビュルラマキによる社会契約と政治的主権
Coujou, Jean-Paul, Pacte social et souverainete politique chez Burlamaqui. (Constitution de la modernite) 251 p. 2025:4 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <751-10>
ISBN 978-2-406-18324-2 hard ¥19,552.- (税込) EUR 79.00
ISBN 978-2-406-18323-5 paper ¥7,920.- (税込) EUR 32.00

ルソーから自由民主主義までの世論と国民主権
Ghins, Arthur, The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy. (Ideas in Context) 320 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-13>
ISBN 978-1-009-68882-6 hard ¥26,037.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

The People's Two Powers revisits the emergence of democracy during the French Revolution and examines how French liberalism evolved in response. By focusing on two concepts often studied separately-public opinion and popular sovereignty-Arthur Ghins uncovers a significant historical shift in the understanding of democracy. Initially tied to the direct exercise of popular sovereignty by Rousseau, Condorcet, the Montagnards, and Bonapartist theorists, democracy was first rejected, then associated with the idea of rule by public opinion by liberals throughout the nineteenth century. This redefinition culminated in the invention of the term 'liberal democracy' in France in the 1860s. Originally conceived in opposition to 'Caesarism' during the Second Empire, the term has an ongoing and important legacy, and was later redeployed by French liberals against shifting adversaries - 'totalitarianism' from the 1930s onward, and 'populism' since the 1980s.

Stalnaker, Joanna, The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death. (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) 288 pp. 2025:10 (Yale U. Pr., US)
ISBN 978-0-300-18134-0 hard ¥7,430.- (税込) US$ 35.00

A moving, intimate portrait of the Enlightenment philosophers as they faced the end of their lives and their historical moment What would the Enlightenment look like if we viewed it through the eyes of the philosophers as they were facing death? Joanna Stalnaker turns our habitual perspective on the Enlightenment on its head, bringing to light a set of works written at the end of the Old Regime and at the end of their authors' lives. These works, all written before the French Revolution, cast a retrospective glance over the intellectual movement their authors participated in, and over the authors' own lives and works. Stalnaker shows that the inventiveness and beauty of these works stem from their authors' efforts to give literary form to the materiality and fragility of their dying bodies. As they reflected on writing as a means of reaching posterity, Enlightenment philosophers embraced the possibility that neither their names nor their writings would survive long beyond the decomposition of their bodies. They inscribed the silence and nothingness of death into their last works. Stalnaker's book unsettles reigning interpretations of the Enlightenment as a precursor to our modernity and shows its protagonists at their moments of fragility and doubt, capturing their sense of an ending rather than the confidence in a glowing future so often attributed to them.

人種とスコットランド啓蒙思想－1750～1820年の植民地史
Andersson Burnett, Linda / Buchan, Bruce, Race and the Scottish Enlightenment: A Colonial History, 1750-1820. (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) 304 pp. 2025:10 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-14>
ISBN 978-0-300-26438-8 hard ¥13,799.- (税込) US$ 65.00

How colonialism shaped the Scottish Enlightenment's conception of race and humanity In the decades after 1750, an increasing number of former medical students from the University of Edinburgh construed humanity as a subject of both intellectual curiosity and colonial interest. They drew on a shared educational background, blending medicine with natural history and moral philosophy, in a range of encounters with non-European and Indigenous peoples across the globe whom they began to classify as races. Focusing on a surprising number of these understudied students, this book reveals the gradual predominance of race in Scottish Enlightenment thought. Teaching provided a toolbox of concepts and theories for students who went on to careers as military and naval surgeons, colonial administrators, and natural historians. While some, such as Mungo Park-who traveled in Africa-are well known, many others such as the long-term residents in the Russian Empire, Matthew Guthrie and his wife, Maria Guthrie, or the Caribbean botanist Alexander Anderson are less remembered. Among this group were those such as the Pacific traveler Archibald Menzies and the circumnavigator of Australia, Robert Brown, who are known primarily as botanists rather than as ethnographers. Together they formed a global network of colonial travelers and natural historians sharing a common educational background and a growing interest in race.

P.ベールの『歴史批評辞典』研究
Bots, Hans / McKenna, Antony (dir.), Etudes sur le Dictionnaire historique et critique de Pierre Bayle. (Vie des huguenots) 288 p. 2025:3 (Champion, FR) <748-15>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6291-9 paper ¥13,612.- (税込) EUR 55.00

ヒュームの『自然宗教に関する対話』－批判的案内
Russell, Paul (ed.), Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: A Critical Guide. (Cambridge Critical Guides) 300 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-16>
ISBN 978-1-009-21409-4 hard ¥27,483.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion were published posthumously in 1779 and are considered one of the most important contributions to the philosophy of religion. Throughout Hume's philosophical career his views on religion were highly controversial and many of his own contemporaries regarded his philosophy as a defence of atheism and irreligion. The Dialogues is Hume's final and his most definitive statement of his views on this subject. In this Critical Guide, leading scholars engage with topics including the argument from intelligent design, the cosmological argument, the problem of evil, religion and morality, miracles, suicide and immortality, and the natural origins and roots of religious belief. The volume updates and expands our critical understanding of this major philosophical work, and will be of interest to a range of readers in philosophy, religion, and the history of ideas.

マキァヴェッリの注視－16世紀において社会科学を考える
Landi, Sandro, Machiavelli's Gaze: Thinking Social Sciences in the Sixteenth Century. (Italian and Italian American Studies) 272 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <747-25>
ISBN 978-3-031-88979-0 hard ¥27,221.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book examines Machiavelli in contemporary or past realities through the way in which he read, wrote, related to cultures distant in time and space-a first in the field of Machiavellian studies. It proposes and experiments with a change of perspective: in essence, it is not interested in what Machiavelli probably was, but in what Machiavelli did. In this perspective, Machiavelli remains a paradoxically still little-explored historical case. Issues and methods developed in recent decades by intellectual history, the history of reading, and cultural anthropology have remained substantially unfamiliar to Machiavelli scholars. This is a book that renews the vision of Machiavelli: no longer the starting or finishing point of intellectual genealogies that are often openly ideological, but an extraordinary case study that allows us to analyse the birth, in the sixteenth century, of a composite knowledge specifically dedicated to man in society.

Lilti, Antoine, The Legacy of the Enlightenment: Ambivalences of Modernity. (The Life of Ideas) 320 pp. 2025:9 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-26>
ISBN 978-0-226-82061-3 hard ¥8,492.- (税込) US$ 40.00

Going against the grain, this refreshing book argues for a non-ideological portrait of the Enlightenment as having been, above all else, a self-critical enterprise. The Enlightenment has come under substantial attack over the past several years, with some going so far as to recommend leaving its thinkers-and their Eurocentric prejudices-behind. On the other hand, the most orthodox defenders of the Enlightenment insist that its values are not just foundational but indispensable and that leaving them behind means opening the door to nihilism and relativism. For Antoine Lilti, one of the leading scholars of the French Enlightenment, both sides are wrong. In this remarkable series of essays, Lilti emphasizes a non-dogmatic, non-ideological view of the Enlightenment-one that sees its legacy as a critical, subversive attitude that can and should serve as its own best critic. Along the way, he engages the way with everyone from Rousseau and Kant to Foucault and Habermas, as well as prominent contemporary scholars such as Jonathan Israel. The result is a new reading of the Enlightenment that breathes life into old debates and offers an alternative way to engage with canonical thinkers and traditions that is both honest about the past and useful for the future.

ファシズムという語の歴史
Marcon, Federico, Fascism: The History of a Word. (The Life of Ideas) 448 pp. 2025:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-27>
ISBN 978-0-226-84130-4 hard ¥24,414.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-84132-8 paper ¥7,430.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A wide-ranging history of the term "fascism," what it has meant, and what it means today. The rise and popular support for authoritarianism around the world and within traditional democracies have spurred debates over the meaning of the term "fascist" and when and whether it is appropriate to use it. The landmark study Fascism: The History of a Word takes this debate further by tackling its most fundamental questions: How did the terms "fascism" and "fascist" come to be in the first place? How and in what circumstances have they been used? How can they be understood today? And what are the advantages (or disadvantages) of using "fascism" to make sense of interwar authoritarianism as well as contemporary politics? Exploring the writings and deeds of political leaders, activists, artists, authors, and philosophers, Federico Marcon traces the history of the term's use (and usefulness) in relation to Mussolini's political regime, antifascist resistance, and the quest of postwar historians to develop a definition of a "fascist minimum." This investigation of the semiotics of "fascism" also aims to inquire about people's voluntary renunciation of the modern emancipatory ideals of freedom, equality, and solidarity.

Hampe, Michael, Krise der Aufklaerung: Ueber die Fortsetzbarkeit einer Lebensform. (stw 2481) 200 S. 2025:10 (Suhrkamp, GW) <747-24>
ISBN 978-3-518-30081-7 paper ¥5,445.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Die Aufklaerung ist in Gefahr. Die Vermarktung von Information und Kommunikation hat Fehlinformationen profitabel gemacht, die Oeffentlichkeit ist zu einem Raum der Taeuschung und Aufwiegelung geworden. Eine zunehmende und ungehemmte Ausbreitung von Grausamkeit und Gewalt scheint die Folge zu sein. Michael Hampe ueberlegt in diesem Buch, ob ein neues Verstaendnis von ≫Selbst≪ und ≫Freiheit≪ auch zu einer Erneuerung der Aufklaerung beitragen kann. Und ob Erziehung Menschen so zu veraendern vermag, dass sie der Erosion der aufgeklaerten Kultur etwas entgegensetzen und aufgeklaerte Lebensformen begruenden.

ヒュームの『奇跡論』の評価
Larmer, Robert A., Hume's Counterfeit Check: An Appraisal of Hume's "Of Miracles". XXII, 204 pp. 2025:2 (P. Lang, SZ) <746-40>
ISBN 978-1-63667-945-7 hard ¥25,764.- (税込) SFR 98.00 *

Hume’s essay "Of Miracles" has the reputation of providing, in Hume’s own words, an "everlasting check" to accepting reports of miracles. Author Robert Larmer demonstrates that this reputation is undeserved. Taking seriously the environment in which "Of Miracles" was composed reveals that its arguments are neither original to Hume nor compelling. Both before and after the publication of "Of Miracles" these arguments received devastating criticisms by Hume’s predecessors and contemporaries. Contemporary revisionary attempts to defend the argument by insisting that Hume cannot really have meant what he has traditionally been understood to claim are inevitably guilty of eisegesis and systematically ignoring crucial passages fatal to their idiosyncratic readings. The clarity of Larmer’s writing makes Hume’s Counterfeit Check accessible both to professional academics and interested lay persons. Anyone interested in assessing the rationality of accepting testimonial evidence for the occurrence of miracles should view this book as required reading. "Hume’s Counterfeit Check is the best book on the historical context and reception of Hume’s argument on miracles in over fifty years ? deeply informed and judicious yet written with a light touch that makes this material accessible to non-specialist readers. I wish I had written it myself." ?Tim McGrew, Professor and Chair of Philosophy, Western Michigan University

Watkin, Christopher, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity: Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology. 379 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-41>
ISBN 978-1-009-67046-3 hard ¥30,376.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

The state of nature is a powerful idea at the heart of the fragmented and sometimes conflicting stories the modern West tells about itself. It also makes sense of foundational Western commitments to equality and accumulation, freedom and property, universality and the individual. By exploring the social and cultural imaginaries that emerge from the distinct and often contradictory accounts of the state of nature in the writing of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing debates of our time, showing how the state of nature idea provides a powerful lens through which to focus the complex forces shaping today's political and cultural landscape. It also explores how ideas about human nature and origins drive today's debates about colonialism, secularism, and the environment, and how they can shed new light on some of society's most heated debates.

植民地主義と啓蒙思想－ドイツの人種理論の遺産
Brandt, Bettina / Purdy, Daniel L. (eds.), Colonialism and Enlightenment: The Legacy of German Race Theories. 312 pp. 2025:9 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <745-4>
ISBN 978-0-19-778502-7 hard ¥21,017.- (税込) US$ 99.00

For the last 30 years, scholars have treated Enlightenment race theory and nineteenth-century German colonialism as two distinct events. In Colonialism and Enlightenment, editors Bettina Brandt and Daniel L. Purdy present perspectives from scholars across the fields of philosophy, postcolonialism, literature, and German and African American studies, who challenge this view, providing a critical examination of the historical connection between "scientific" racial theory in late-Enlightenment Germany and the forces of colonialism and Nazism over a hundred years later. From its first formulations in the eighteenth century and well into the twentieth century, German race theory was implicated in colonialism. Philosophers and biologists drew their arguments about race from information that was generated by the slave trade and plantation economies in the Americas. Their reliance on colonial data was applied to so-called "internal colonization" within Eastern Europe and Central Asia, as well as to seaborn European competition in South Asia. Most strikingly, some of the sites of German race theorization, such as East Prussia and the Baltic states, were themselves long-established colonies with ethnic separations between ruling and laboring populations. Race theory depended not only on the exploration of distant islands in the Pacific, but on the long-term exploitation and breeding of forcefully transported populations across the Atlantic. Without the involuntary migration of Africans, nineteenth century racial scientists would not have been able to engage in arguments about crossbreeding, skull size, and skin color. The chapters in this volume explore how eighteenth-century German theories about race reinforced discourses on colonial settlements, both within and outside Europe. Given the multiple, often contradictory positions developed in the Enlightenment, Brandt and Purdy explore how later race thinkers responded to earlier concepts. How did Enlightenment-era debates figure into later forms of racism? How did nationalist and Nazi racisms view Enlightenment anthropology? What Enlightenment concepts and configurations persisted into the twentieth century? Taking a broad view, the scholars in this volume offer a variety of positions on these and other questions as they take stock of the debates about race and the Enlightenment held over the last 20 years.

Coffee, Alan M. S. J., Wollstonecraft: Independent Woman. (Classic Thinkers) 230 pp. 2025:5 (Polity Pr., UK) <745-5>
ISBN 978-1-5095-1907-1 hard ¥14,850.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-1908-8 paper ¥5,296.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Famous as the author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft was a wide-ranging and controversial moral and political philosopher. She engaged with many of the most polarising issues of her day: criticising social hierarchies, advocating for educational reform, analysing the French Revolution, and challenging men's political dominance. In this illuminating introduction, Alan Coffee argues that the originality of Wollstonecraft's feminist arguments is best understood within the context of a systematic and comprehensive philosophical system built up from a set of 'simple' theological and moral principles. An effective way to approach this is through the concept of freedom as independence. Drawing on all of Wollstonecraft's works, including her novels, reviews and letters, Coffee shows how the ideal of independence illuminates and unites many of her intellectual preoccupations and her contribution to contemporary debates, such as on the structural nature of social injustice and the republican notion of freedom as non-domination. This gripping account of Wollstonecraft's work sheds new light on one of the most important eighteenth-century thinkers.

G.オーウェル－生涯と遺産
Colls, Robert, George Orwell: Life and Legacy. 112 pp. 2026:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <743-9>
ISBN 978-0-19-883001-6 hard ¥4,336.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites? George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various movies, various murals, various misquotations, two adjectives, at least half a dozen fictions and most recently "a dead metaphor" with plenty more accolades to come. George Orwell: Life and Legacy is an intellectual biography which offers an original account of Orwell's life and work from his birth in the high noon of British imperialism in 1903, to his death on the eve of the Cold War in 1950. Orwell's life played out against a background of two world wars, two great revolutions, one long global depression, the rise and rise of Communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to all these great struggles, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never turned away from the question of who he was, and the contradictions that entailed. His two great modern masterpieces Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949) arrived to define the age he lived in. Interest in him has never abated since; no writer is more quoted or misquoted. Orwell is in danger of being lost to soundbites. Colls reveals the author once again.

R.Trousson著　ユートピアと啓蒙思想期の哲学者の受容
Trousson, Raymond, Verba et sententiae: utopie et reception des philosophes des Lumieres. (Les dix-huitiemes siecles) 556 p. 2024:12 (Champion, FR) <743-10>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6073-1 paper ¥22,275.- (税込) EUR 90.00

誇りを持った自己－ヒュームの徳の倫理学
Greco, Lorenzo, The Proud Self: A Humean Ethics of Virtue. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy) 232 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <742-11>
ISBN 978-1-041-00940-5 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book presents a novel interpretation of Hume as a proponent of sentimental virtue ethics. This interpretation sheds light on the nature of Hume's ethics, as well as its relevance for contemporary debates in moral philosophy.The book starts by developing an understanding of the self in Hume based on the passion of pride. Contrary to the common view that Hume denies the unity of the self by diluting it into a bundle or collection of different perceptions, the author argues that, by focusing on pride, it is possible to identify in Hume a firm notion of the self as having a sentimental nature that can be explained in narrative terms. Pivoting on this narrative self, he shows how it accounts for the Humean notion of the virtuous person by holding together in a harmonious whole several central issues in Hume's moral philosophy, including sympathy, the point of view from which we make moral judgements, the practical nature of ethics and the role that reflection plays in it, and the definition of perfect character. Finally, the author maintains that Humean virtue ethics, so understood, has the individual at its core, representing a secular and pluralist alternative to neo-Aristotelian versions discussed today. The Proud Self will appeal to scholars and graduate students working on Hume, 18th-century philosophy, virtue ethics, and moral psychology.

Curtright, Travis, The Controversial Thomas More: Politics, Polemics, and Prison Writings. (The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics) 256 pp. 2025:4 (U. Notre Dame Pr., US) <741-17>
ISBN 978-0-268-20914-8 hard ¥21,230.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-268-20915-5 paper ¥8,067.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

The Controversial Thomas More offers an original and critical intervention on the writings of Thomas More and his opposition to King Henry VIII. Thomas More is known for refusing the oath of succession and remaining silent about his reasons for doing so. His prison literature, however, tells a different story. Under the threat of execution, More waged an astonishingly prolific and often coded writing campaign in rebuke of King Henry VIII's claim to be supreme head of the Church in England. Travis Curtright's groundbreaking book shows how William Rastell, More's nephew and printer, fashioned a historically inaccurate depiction of More, one that persists to this day. Rastell's edition of More's works gave the false impression that More stopped writing polemical literature in 1533 and, instead, turned his mind exclusively toward heaven and away from politics. In contrast, Curtright proves that More's prison writings are not just devotional literature but also a powerful defense of a united Church under the pope, reestablishing More as a key political and religious thinker, defiant of King Henry VIII. Most scholars restrict More's political thought to his Utopia, but The Controversial Thomas More shows how his prison writings best reveal his ideas of political unity and authority, and is a reconsideration of More's legacy and place in the history of the Henrician Reformation.

革命の時代におけるE.バークとC.フォックス
Grant, James, Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revolution. 512 pp. 2025:9 (Norton, US) <741-18>
ISBN 978-0-393-54210-3 hard ¥9,553.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

Edmund Burke and Charles Fox made common political cause in eighteenth-century Britain for twenty-five years: they supported the rebellious American colonies, attacked the British slave trade, defended religious liberty and attempted to shield Britain's credit from the crisis-prone East India Company. The two men were an improbable pair. But the hard-drinking, mistress-collecting Fox loved and admired Burke, feelings that the clean-living political philosopher and statesman warmly reciprocated. They moved together in the London intellectual world, opposing what they regarded as the overreaching crown. Friends Until the End traces Burke and Fox's relationship through three events: the American Revolution; the impeachment of the East India Company's governor-general; and the French Revolution, which ended their political union and shattered their friendship. With panache, James Grant illuminates the politics and economics of their era and its lessons for our divided present. James Grant's Bagehot was praised as: "[...] in Grant's hands, Bagehot's life and career provide a superb prism through which to observe the extraordinary revolution in the British economy during the 19th century."-Simon Nixon, The Times "[An] engaging new biography of Bagehot... In this very enjoyable book, Grant demonstrates that he has the measure of a fascinating-and great-Victorian."-Financial Times

J.-J.ルソーの政治哲学
Jordan, Will R. (ed.), Natural Man, Citizen, Philosopher: The Political Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (The A. V. Elliott Conference Series) 224 pp. 2025 (Mercer U. Pr., US) <741-19>
ISBN 978-0-88146-962-2 paper ¥5,307.- (税込) US$ 25.00 *

ホッブズの性論
Sreedhar, Susanne, Hobbes on Sex. 192 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <741-20>
ISBN 978-0-19-284820-8 hard ¥22,276.- (税込) GB￡ 77.00 *

Why care what Hobbes thought about sex? Contemporary scholars have largely dismissed Hobbes's brief, and somewhat scattered, remarks about gender and sexuality as peripheral to his central concerns. In Hobbes on Sex, the first book-length study of Hobbes's writings on these topics, Susanne Sreedhar challenges this dismissal. Far from being haphazard or tangential, Hobbes's views on sex are integral to his broader philosophical-political project. Drawing out the underlying logic of his claims, this volume reconstructs a coherent, substantive, and distinctive account of sexual normativity from Hobbes's various remarks. It argues that, in stark contrast to many of his contemporaries and the traditions from which he emerges, Hobbes is logically committed to a view it calls sexual positivism. According to Hobbes, the nature and status of gender and sexuality--from the proper organization of marriage and the family, to prohibitions on sexual behaviors, to the differences between men and women, to the legitimacy of female rule--are entirely a matter of positive (i.e., civil) law. Because matters of gender and sexuality are the result of human action for Hobbes, they are fundamentally contingent and revisable. This contingency stands in contrast with the pervasive and entrenched ways both natural patriarchalism and sexual moralism were enthroned in much of early modern political theorizing. The volume argues that Hobbes's sexual positivism dethrones sex from its usual prominent position in the history of philosophy. By systematically stripping gender and sexuality of their privileged status, whether as a source of normativity or as a topic of inquiry, this dethroning of sex strikes at the heart of beliefs about human nature, moral knowledge, and social and political institutions that are widely accepted even today. This novel interpretation of Hobbes's views on sexual normativity not only challenges traditional understandings of the trajectory of early modern political thought, but it also suggests a new understanding of his place in the intellectual history of sex.

M.Mulsow著　不安定な知識－もう一つの近世思想史
Mulsow, Martin, Prekaeres Wissen: Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Fruehen Neuzeit. (stw 2474) 550 S. 2025:4 (Suhrkamp, GW) <740-12>
ISBN 978-3-518-30074-9 paper ¥6,435.- (税込) EUR 26.00

Martin Mulsow begibt sich auf die Spur der prekaeren Seite neuzeitlicher Wissensgeschichte in Europa: der Unsicherheit und Gefaehrdung von Theorie- und Wissensbestaenden, des heiklen Status ihres Traegermaterials, des Risikos haeretischen Transfers. Er praesentiert Taktiken, die Intellektuelle ersonnen haben, um mit diesen Faehrnissen zu leben, ihre Rueckzugsgesten und Aengste, aber auch ihre Versuche, verlorenes Wissen wiederzugewinnen. Prekaeres Wissen handelt nicht von den grossen Themen der Metaphysik und Epistemologie, sondern von Randzonen. Ein Buch voller spannender Fallstudien, eine andere Ideengeschichte der Fruehen Neuzeit und der Versuch, den Begriff des Wissens neu zu denken.

J.-J.ルソー－歴史に直面する政治学
Canivez, Patrice, Jean-Jacques Rousseau: la politique face a l'histoire. 463 p. 2024:11 (PUF, FR) <740-10>
ISBN 978-2-13-086726-5 paper ¥6,435.- (税込) EUR 26.00 *

Isermann, Michael, The Alphabetization of Thought: Orthography, Locke, and Natural Philosophy. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) 416 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-11>
ISBN 978-90-04-68484-3 hard ¥40,837.- (税込) EUR 165.00

The Alphabetisation of Thought is a bold and original study about the rise, spread and dominance of orthographic thinking in the Early Modern period. Starting out as a local, grammatical mode of thinking, it soon gained momentum, strength and depth, turning into a development that provoked a wholesale reorganisation of thought along the lines of alphabetical writing. The study brings together an unprecedented range of texts from areas as diverse as grammar, epistemology, classical scholarship, natural philosophy and cryptography. A major source of evidence is Locke's doctrine of ideas as laid out in his Essay Concerning Human Understanding. Echoing the orthographic debate of the preceding 150 years, it affords not only crucial insight into the final stages of the alphabetisation process, but also glimpses of its legacy.

〔原田哲史「ユストゥス・メーザーにおける啓蒙思想と啓蒙思想批判」寄稿〕オスナブリュック研究年報　第129巻
Osnabruecker Mitteilungen: Mitteilungen des Vereins fuer Geschichte und Landeskunde von Osnabrueck (Historischer Verein). Band 129. 326 pp. 2024:12 (Vlg. fuer Regionalgeschichte, GW) <100-6518>
ISBN 978-3-7395-1544-1 hard ¥5,940.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Die Osnabruecker Mitteilungen sind das Jahrbuch des Vereins fuer Geschichte und Landeskunde von Osnabrueck. Die Zeitschrift ist ein Forum fuer wissenschaftliche Forschungsergebnisse zur Geschichte des Osnabruecker Landes, des Emslandes und der Grafschaft Bentheim. Im Rezensionsteil werden wissenschaftliche Neuerscheinungen ueber den ehemaliger Regierungsbezirk Osnabrueck und benachbarte Regionen besprochen.

社会契約論－パトニー討論からロールズまでの政治的平等
Edmundson, William A., The Social Contract: Political Equality from Putney to Rawls. 257 pp. 2025:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <739-13>
ISBN 978-1-009-39526-7 hard ¥24,590.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

We are all parties to a social contract and obligated under it. Or is this mere fiction? How is such an agreement possible in a society riven by deep moral disagreement? William Edmundson explains the social-contract tradition from its beginnings in the English Revolution, through Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau to its culmination in the work of John Rawls. The idea that legitimate government rests on the consent of free equals took shape in the seventeenth century and was developed in the eighteenth but fell into disuse in the nineteenth century even as democracy, toleration, and limited government gained ground. Edmundson shows how Rawls revived the idea of a social contract in the mid-twentieth century to secure these gains, as the then-dominant moral theories, such as utilitarianism, could not. The book also defends Rawls's conviction that political equality is integral to the idea of reciprocity at the heart of the tradition.

E.デュフルモン著　中江兆民－日本のルソー主義哲学の政治における実践　1874～90年
Dufourmont, Eddy, Nakae Chomin, la mise en politique d'une philosophie rousseauiste au Japon (1874-1890). (Constitution de la modernite 54) 352 p. 2024 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <738-30>
ISBN 978-2-406-17325-0 hard ¥20,542.- (税込) EUR 83.00
ISBN 978-2-406-17324-3 paper ¥8,662.- (税込) EUR 35.00 *

P.J.E.ケイル著　D.ヒュームの『人間本性論』案内
Kail, P. J. E., The Routledge Guidebook to Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature. (The Routledge Guides to the Great Books) 272 pp. 2025:4 (Routledge, UK) <738-31>
ISBN 978-1-138-94344-5 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-138-94355-1 paper ¥7,229.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

David Hume is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher to have written in the English language. His 1739/40 A Treatise of Human Nature is commonly regarded as his masterpiece. It is a profound work of great ambition, seeking to reorient philosophy by establishing a 'science of human nature'.Following the structure of the original work closely, The Routledge Guidebook to Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature provides a clear and accessible introduction to its key themes, and explores:the lasting philosophical significance of the workthe context of Hume's philosophythe character of Hume's theory of human naturethe two central themes of scepticism and naturalismthe unity of the three original volumes.Written for readers approaching Hume's seminal work for the first time, this guidebook includes a helpful overview of the text, chapter summaries and further reading throughout. It is an essential introduction for undergraduate students studying the history of modern philosophy, and all those who wish to engage more deeply with this classic work.

Lepan, Geraldine, Les passions en politique: l'amitie des citoyens. (Constitution de la modernite 53) 474 p. 2024 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <738-32>
ISBN 978-2-406-17322-9 hard ¥21,285.- (税込) EUR 86.00
ISBN 978-2-406-17321-2 paper ¥9,405.- (税込) EUR 38.00 *

谷川雅子著　コンテクストにおけるP.ベール－寛容、政治的服従、良心の自由
Tanigawa, Masako, Pierre Bayle en contexte: tolerance, soumission politique, liberte de conscience. (Vie des huguenots 99) 304 p. 2024 (Champion, FR) <738-33>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6221-6 paper ¥11,880.- (税込) EUR 48.00 *

Mack, Ruth, Handicraft Philosophies: Craft, Representation, and Social Knowledge in Eighteenth-Century Britain. 288 pp. 2025:6 (Stanford U. Pr., US) <737-19>
ISBN 978-1-5036-0637-1 hard ¥27,599.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *
ISBN 978-1-5036-4293-5 paper ¥6,793.- (税込) US$ 32.00 *

The term "Enlightenment" still carries its tie to a grand philosophical tradition that in Britain moves through Bacon, Locke, and Hume. But the literature and philosophy of the Enlightenment was full of practical knowledge associated with the body and with craft. This book is an account of the eighteenth-century thinkers from across social classes who turned to the body to formulate new ways of knowing natural and social worlds-what Ruth Mack calls handicraft philosophies. The writers discussed in this book include a formerly enslaved man, Olaudah Equiano, and a washerwoman, Mary Collier, as well as gentlemen Joseph Banks and James Boswell, and the artist William Hogarth. In their efforts to communicate embodied ways of knowing, they bring together theory and practice; they set aside objectivity and relish the practical ways of knowing that are traditionally associated with lower classes and less-than-privileged bodies. Mack focuses on how such knowledge proved especially helpful for understanding "society" as a new object of enquiry in the Enlightenment, laying the groundwork for the emergence of anthropological and sociological thought. Complicating the intellectual history of Enlightenment Britain amidst the rise of popular science and imperial expansion, Handicraft Philosophies is a new account of the thinkers who configured "philosophy" as a practice open to all.

西洋－思想史
Varouxakis, Georgios, The West: The History of an Idea. 488 pp. 2025:7 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <737-20>
ISBN 978-0-691-17718-2 hard ¥8,481.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

A comprehensive intellectual history of the idea of the WestHow did "the West" come to be used as a collective self-designation signaling political and cultural commonality? When did "Westerners" begin to refer to themselves in this way? Was the idea handed down from the ancient Greeks, or coined by nineteenth-century imperialists? Neither, writes Georgios Varouxakis in The West, his ambitious and fascinating genealogy of the idea. "The West" was not used by Plato, Cicero, Locke, Mill, or other canonized figures of what we today call the Western tradition. It was not first wielded by empire-builders. It gradually emerged as of the 1820s and was then, Varouxakis shows, decisively promoted in the 1840s by the French philosopher Auguste Comte (whose political project, incidentally, was passionately anti-imperialist). The need for the use of the term "the West" emerged to avoid the confusing or unwanted consequences of the use of "Europe." The two overlapped, but were not identical, with the West used to differentiate from certain "others" within Europe as well as to include the Americas.After examining the origins, Varouxakis traces the many and often astonishingly surprising changes in the ways in which the West has been understood, and the different intentions and consequences related to a series of these contested definitions. While other theories of the West consider only particular aspects of the concept and its history (if only in order to take aim at its reputation), Varouxakis's analysis offers a comprehensive account that reaches to the present day, exploring the multiplicity of current, and not least, prospective future meanings. He concludes with an examination of how, since 2022, definitions and membership of the West have been reworked to consider Ukraine, as the evolution and redefinitions continue.

来たるべき革命－トゥキュディデスからレーニンまでの思想史
Edelstein, Dan, The Revolution to Come: A History of an Idea from Thucydides to Lenin. 432 pp. 2025:4 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <737-16>
ISBN 978-0-691-23185-3 hard ¥7,430.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

How an event once considered the greatest of all political dangers came to be seen as a solution to all social problemsPolitical thinkers from Plato to John Adams saw revolutions as a grave threat to society and advocated for a constitution that prevented them by balancing social interests and forms of government. The Revolution to Come traces how evolving conceptions of history ushered in a faith in the power of revolution to create more just and reasonable societies.Taking readers from Greek antiquity to Leninist Russia, Dan Edelstein describes how classical philosophers viewed history as chaotic and directionless, and sought to keep historical change-especially revolutions-at bay. This conception prevailed until the eighteenth century, when Enlightenment thinkers conceived of history as a form of progress and of revolution as its catalyst. These ideas were put to the test during the French Revolution and came to define revolutions well into the twentieth century. Edelstein demonstrates how the coming of the revolution leaves societies divided over its goals, giving rise to new forms of violence in which rivals are targeted as counterrevolutionaries.A panoramic work of intellectual history, The Revolution to Come challenges us to reflect on the aims and consequences of revolution and to balance the value of stability over the hope for change in our own moment of fear and upheaval.

Ferrone, Vincenzo, The World of the Enlightenment. (Routledge Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Worlds of Knowledge) 272 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <737-17>
ISBN 978-1-032-48958-2 hard ¥41,948.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

The Enlightenment was a laboratory of modernity that changed the history of the Western world, helping to bring about globalisation and the rise of a powerful intellectual class. It gave the scientific revolution new methods and a new purpose by ushering in the sciences of man. At the same time, it constantly interrogated these new sciences, wary of the possibility that they might lead to discrimination rather than emancipation. The late Enlightenment, the most mature and productive period, developed its values and political ideals, such as the concept of liberty and of a constitutional and "republican" government, through its confrontation with the Ancien regime, the slave trade and imperial colonialism, and the betrayal of the revolutionary ideals in the Americas.The World of the Enlightenment is a wide-ranging discussion of one of the most important cultural phenomena of the modern era. It covers topics from the scientific (such as the approaches of empiricism and humanism), the political (the rights of man, slavery and colonial independence) and the artistic (modern art and public opinion). The author discusses these topics thematically in ten chapters.This book will appeal to scholars and students alike studying the Enlightenment and the history of intellectualism, as well as all those interested in the history of modern science, politics and culture.Translated by Martin McLaughlin and Elisabetta Tarantino

ルソーからの書簡選集
Grace, Eve / Kelly, Christopher (eds.), Letters from Rousseau: Selected Correspondence. (Agora Editions) 618 pp. 2025:7 (Cornell U. Pr., US) <737-18>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8193-3 hard ¥12,727.- (税込) US$ 59.95 *

Letters from Rousseau is the first extensive collection of translations of Rousseau's correspondence into English in more than eighty years. Many of the letters have not been translated before, while others address substantive issues in his thought and complement his published writings. Although these letters went through the post as ordinary letters, once Rousseau became famous, he knew that they might be opened by the police and that they were very likely to be circulated and even published. Indeed, he wrote some of them with a view to their ultimate publication. Rousseau's enormous "private" correspondence extends into all periods of his life, including intimate letters to friends, letters to famous individuals, and responses to readers who posed philosophic questions to him. Thus, Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly also share his responses to readers who had been moved by his books. Further, this volume includes letters written to or about major intellectual figures, such as Diderot, Voltaire, Hume, and Mirabeau.

ホッブズの二つの科学－政治学、幾何学、哲学の構造
Adams, Marcus P., Hobbes's Two Sciences: Politics, Geometry, and the Structure of Philosophy. 248 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <736-15>
ISBN 978-0-19-892468-5 hard ¥22,276.- (税込) GB￡ 77.00 *

Seventeenth-Century Thinker Thomas Hobbes maintained that his philosophy constituted a unified system, but in what precise sense did he think that the branches of his philosophy were unified? This question has provoked extensive scholarship over the last half-century. Answering it is essential not only to understanding Hobbes's philosophy generally, but how one answers it significantly impacts our understanding of the Leviathan, his most influential work, and of the Laws of Nature, the foundation of his political philosophy. Hobbes's Two Sciences answers the question of philosophical unificiation by situating Hobbes's politics within his account of scientific knowledge as constructed by humans—an epistemology founded on the idea that makers have special access to causal knowledge—and by demonstrating that the relationship between pure and mixed mathematics provided him with a model for thinking about relationships between geometry and natural philosophy and between politics and history. Marcus P. Adams explores how this understanding of Hobbes's systematic philosophy impacts three long-standing areas of scholarship on Hobbes and the History of Early Modern Philosophy and provides a new view on Hobbes's system .