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

社会学のルーツ－スコットランド啓蒙とプロセスの文明化のプロセス
Law, Alex, The Roots of Sociology: Scottish Enlightenment and the Civilising Process. (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory) 220 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <763-12>
ISBN 978-0-367-49181-9 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book argues that of today's 'core' social scientific disciplines, it is sociology that has inherited the capacious ambitions of the Scottish Enlightenment.Departing from the practice of classifying thinkers of the Scottish Enlightenment using modern disciplinary categories that they themselves would not have recognised - categories that obscure the fact that these figures were engaged in what they considered to be a wide-ranging, historical science of society - it argues that sociology continues to explore many of the central themes in their work: historical processes, relations of power, societal differentiation and integration, morality, jurisprudence, violence, civil society and the state, as well as social divisions of class, gender, race and nation that are often overlooked in characterisations of 'Enlightenment reason'. A critical, qualified introduction to the precocious effort of the Scottish Enlightenment to create a theory of 'the civilising process', The Roots of Sociology assesses the contribution and continuing relevance of the enlightened intellectuals to sociology as an intergenerational process. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory and intellectual history.

Albertson, David / Blakely, Jason, Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope. 160 pp. 2026:9 (Yale U. Pr., US) <763-11>
ISBN 978-0-300-27808-8 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Inspired by the humanist and Catholic martyr Thomas More, David Albertson and Jason Blakely imagine a new politics of hope In Thomas More's Utopia, a traveler from the New World delivers a shocking message: on a lost island beyond the horizon, people live far better lives than in Europe. A leading intellectual of his day, More was murdered by Henry VIII in 1535 for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, but his utopian vision inspired some of the most consequential movements in the modern world. In their provocative manifesto, David Albertson and Jason Blakely retrieve More's insights and apply them to our moment. Amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of authoritarianism, Albertson and Blakely resist the dystopian fears taking root in the twenty-first century. Utopian politics, they argue, can help us break free of today's entrenched polarities and recast what is possible. They return to the "virtuoso dreamers," ranging from Plato and Saint Augustine to Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King, Jr., who faced dire circumstances yet were buoyed by indestructible hopes. Channeling More's spirit of experimentation, creativity, and levity, their utopianism is invested in making new worlds-the most serious kind of play. Social reality, they remind us, has an irreducible imaginative component. Inviting us to dream more boldly, this book offers a radical alternative to the ecological, political, and spiritual crises that plague our world.

Mistacco, Vicki, Louise de Keralio: Enlightenment Intellectual. 448 pp. 2026:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK)
ISBN 978-0-19-898831-1 hard ¥36,259.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

In this first book-length study of prolific polymath Louise de Keralio (1756-1822), Vicki Mistacco offers a comprehensive reading of her entire body of writing and a new understanding of Keralio as an Enlightenment intellectual and a modern feminist thinker. Mistacco adopts a fresh approach to Keralio's published and unpublished writing, undertaking close textual analysis informed by feminist literary criticism and French feminist theory, and carefully reconstructing the historical and cultural context, in order to challenge the critical commonplace that Keralio is a puzzling "sexist republican." She cautions against a piecemeal approach focused almost exclusively on Keralio's writings during the French Revolution. Reading literarily rather than literally, she argues against imposing modern definitions of feminist activism on Keralio and for considering instead the anti-patriarchal, anti-hierarchical, and anti-exclusionary paradigm at the core of her thinking, a both/and rather than either/or paradigm, which Keralio comes to envisage as a maternal one, reflected in the recurring motif of crossing boundaries. Through sustained analysis of works that have hitherto received only scant attention, Keralio's translations of John Carr's travelogues and her late novels (1808-1810), Mistacco sheds light on Keralio's use of "double-voiced discourse" to uphold her feminist ideals while ostensibly endorsing gender norms. The three parts of the book, "Women's Writing: Negotiating a Space," "Philosophizing in the Margins," and "The Missing Mother," trace the evolution in Keralio's thinking about the importance of including a matrimoine or maternal legacy in cultural patrimony, whether it be the contributions of French women writers to national identity and French genius (Collection des meilleurs ouvrages francais composes par des femmes), or those of Queen Elizabeth to the history of European sovereignty (Histoire d'Elisabeth, reine d'Angleterre), or her own annotations to her translations, or in her late novels the testimony of women to arrive at historical truth. Mistacco shows how the idea of maternal legacy evolves into that of maternal Enlightenment, arguing that Keralio elevates the maternal to the level of philosophy and theorizes a new social contract based on an ethics of care. Including unpublished and archival texts, this book offers an important contribution to the history of women intellectuals of the Enlightenment.

Xhignesse, Michel-Antoine / Young, James O. (eds.), Louis-Armand, Baron de Lahontan: Dialogues of Baron de Lahontan and a Savage. (British Society for the History of Philosophy: New Texts in the History of Philosophy) 112 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <762-13>
ISBN 978-0-19-790200-4 hard ¥24,680.- (税込) GB￡ 81.00

Herzen, Alexander, Past and Thoughts: An Annotated Critical Edition. Tr. by R. N. Harris et al. 488 pp. 2026:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <762-11>
ISBN 978-0-674-49510-4 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

An annotated translation of Alexander Herzen's monumental memoir Past and Thoughts-the first new English-language edition in a century-captures the tumultuous life and penetrating cultural and political insights of the writer widely regarded as the founder of Russian socialism.Isaiah Berlin called Alexander Herzen's magnum opus, Past and Thoughts, "a literary masterpiece worthy to be placed by the side of the novels of . . . Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky." It was the most influential memoir published in nineteenth-century Russia, and its impact extended far beyond the tsarist era and the empire's borders, inspiring generations of thinkers, leaders, and dissidents struggling against authoritarian regimes. The first English-language translation in a century, thoroughly annotated with a new introduction, this volume shows why Past and Thoughts is considered a great classic.Against a dramatic backdrop of war, revolution, and exile, Herzen tells a stirring story of political agitation, marital scandal, betrayal, and despair. Past and Thoughts begins with Napoleon's invasion of Moscow during Herzen's infancy, then follows the author's central role in Russia's emerging intelligentsia, his imprisonment and exile in the frozen north, his adventures across a mid-century Europe undergoing the turbulence of revolution and unification, and his founding of the first uncensored Russian-language press. We see the Paris revolts of 1848 and the flamboyant swashbucklers of Italy's Risorgimento through Herzen's sharp eyes, alongside his bold journalism, which reached both the tsar's prisoners and the Winter Palace.This edition restores a key section on the tragic denouement of Herzen's marriage-omitted from previous abridged versions-and includes notes offering critical insight into Herzen's historical sketches, travelogues, satire, poetry, philosophical excursions, and polemics. Tolstoy remarked that "Herzen awaits his readers in the future." A piercing investigation of the human spirit and its enemies, Past and Thoughts is indeed a work for our time.

ヒュームのラディカルな懐疑主義
Broughton, Janet, Hume's Radical Scepticism. 144 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <762-10>
ISBN 978-0-19-780572-5 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00

18世紀のイギリス哲学－K.P.Winklerのテーマ
Ehli, Bridger / Leisinger, Matthew A. (eds.), British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century: Themes from Kenneth P. Winkler. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy) 264 pp. 2026:3 (Routledge, UK) <761-15>
ISBN 978-1-032-91624-8 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

No one has done more to deepen our appreciation of eighteenth-century British philosophy than Kenneth P. Winkler. Winkler's work has had a decisive influence on our understanding of virtually all the period's major figures and has also helped to bring light to the enduring philosophical significance of less well-known figures.The chapters in this volume extend our understanding of themes that have been illuminated by Winkler's work, covering a wide range of topics and figures in eighteenth-century British philosophy. Some attempt to resolve longstanding interpretive debates about, for example, whether Berkeley's idealism leads inevitably to occasionalism or the character of Hume's skepticism. Others explore new lines of inquiry about, for example, Locke's account of moral knowledge or the ways in which Hume was influenced by Anthony Ashley-Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury. Some engage with the canonical philosophical texts that Winkler has done so much to illuminate, such as Locke's Essay, Berkeley's Principles, or Hume's Enquiry. Others follow Winkler's lead by bringing to light the philosophical significance of less well-known texts, such as Elizabeth Montagu's An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare or Mary Shepherd's Essays on the Perception of an External Universe. Collectively, the essays not only honor Winkler's extraordinary career but also shed new light on one of the most fertile periods in the history of philosophy.British Philosophy in the Long Eighteenth Century will appeal to scholars and graduate students working in the history of philosophy, specifically eighteenth-century British philosophy.

Parthe, Kathleen, Herzen's Letters: A Life in Opposition. (NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies) 582 pp. 2026:6 (Northern Illinois U. Pr., US) <759-29>
ISBN 978-1-5017-8705-8 hard ¥32,538.- (税込) US$ 145.00
ISBN 978-1-5017-8706-5 paper ¥8,963.- (税込) US$ 39.95

Herzen's Letters offers readers a biographical narrative based on translated and annotated correspondence written by and to Alexander Herzen (1812-1870), one of the most consequential figures in the run-up to the Russian Revolution who has been an inspiration to dissidents fighting authoritarianism and imperialism ever since. Kathleen Parthe has selected the most significant epistolary material from over a dozen volumes, interweaving letters with commentary to provide context on the time of composition. Parthe also provides excerpts from key Herzen writings mentioned in his letters that are not widely available in translation. While some letters are presented whole, in most cases Parthe selected excerpts that illuminate Herzen's ideas, opinions, and plans, as well as his stylistic gifts. Herzen enjoyed spirited debate, and Herzen's Letters includes the voices of his famous contemporaries, including Mikhail Bakunin, Ivan Turgenev, Lev Tolstoy, and others. In brief introductory essays to the six sections Parthe sketches life events, publications, and settings, as Herzen moved from Moscow to the Urals, Petersburg, Novgorod, the European continent, and England, before returning to the continent for his final years.

啓蒙思想を議論する－学問、歴史記述、書籍と思想の伝播
Barducci, Marco (ed.), Debating Enlightenment: Scholarship, Historiography and the Transmission of Books and Ideas. (Ideas and Practices, 1300-1850) 244 pp. 2025:11 (Durham U. IMEMS Pr., UK) <758-9>
ISBN 978-1-914967-23-8 hard ¥25,899.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

A bold reappraisal of Enlightenment legacies this volume uncovers the fractured, global, and contested nature of modern Europe's most influential intellectual transformation. Emerging from the intellectual upheavals of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the Enlightenment has long served as both a foundational moment and a battleground for narratives of Western modernity. Once anchored in the writings of Spinoza, Kant, Diderot, and D'Alembert, its genealogy is now understood to stretch from the rhetorical afterlives of Renaissance humanism and the polemics of the Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes, through the religious pluralism of the Dutch Republic and the confessional fractures of the Holy Roman Empire, to the text-critical methods of orthodox theologians and the radical secularism of the philosophes. This volume rethinks the Enlightenment as a dynamic espace de debat-a field of contested meanings shaped by transnational circulation, institutional conflict, and historiographical reinvention. Drawing on debates around the "Enlightenment project", "radical" and "religious" Enlightenment, and the tensions between cosmopolitan ideals and national traditions, it engages with the works of Jonathan Israel, Dan Edelstein, and Jeffrey Burson, amongst others, to explore longue duree patterns of intellectual exchange and secularisation. Rich in case studies from Paris, London, Amsterdam, Leipzig, and beyond, the collection speaks directly to those navigating the plural legacies of Enlightenment historiography in an era increasingly shaped by digital tools, global frameworks, and postcolonial critique.

Dafermos, Manolis, Dialectics as Mode of Thought and Method in History. (Perspectives in Cultural-Historical Research 14) 408 pp. 2025:12 (Springer, GW) <758-10>
ISBN 978-3-032-06919-1 hard ¥39,431.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book provides a thorough and panoramic exploration of dialectics, presenting it as both a mode of thought and a method of inquiry deeply embedded in the history of human thought. Rather than treating dialectics as a fixed system of abstract principles, the book underscores both its dynamic character and its historical development. Through careful examination of pivotal moments in dialectics across diverse historical periods and intellectual traditions, the book illuminates how dialectics has continually evolved to address the pressing intellectual and social challenges of each era. By tracing the historical trajectory of dialectics from its ancient, spontaneous forms to its modern expressions, the book highlights the significant transformations it has undergone over time. The book also addresses the growing crisis in many fields dominated by reductionist and narrowly empirical approaches, which have proved inadequate for capturing the complexity and dynamism of developmental processes. In response, it points to a resurgence of interest in dialectics as a powerful methodological alternative. A central claim of the book is that the full potential of dialectics remains largely unrealised. Far from being an obsolete relic of the past, dialectics emerges as an essential method, particularly for the study of complex, dynamic systems. Ultimately, the book reconstructs the historical trajectory of dialectics and advocates its vital role in confronting the epistemological and methodological challenges of contemporary inquiry in an ever-changing world.

啓蒙思想の歴史
Hanvelt, Marc / Spencer, Mark G. / Tolonen, Mikko (eds.), Enlightenment Histories. (Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History) 350 pp. 2025:12 (de Gruyter, GW) <758-11>
ISBN 978-3-11-163695-5 paper ¥24,962.- (税込) EUR 94.95

It has long been understood that histories were central to the Era of the Enlightenment. Enlightenment histories not only broke new scholarly ground, but they also circulated widely with an expanding reading audience. Some works, such as David Hume's History of England, were both innovative and became international bestsellers. Enlightenment Histories is a collection of complementary chapters from which to explore this intriguing field. With its international group of contributors (Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Ireland, Japan, UK, USA) this volume assembles a methodologically diverse collection of chapters ranging in their coverage from particular histories, to historiographical debates of the period, to different forms of historical writing that predominated. The discussions include the place of historical writings within the Enlightenment's moral, philosophical, and political debates. In short, the volume highlights many distinctive features of Enlightenment histories, thereby illuminating their contemporary contexts and enduring significance.

Moreira, Leonardo O., Jean-Jacques Rousseau: variations sur le sauvage. (Les anciens et les modernes, etudes de philosophie) 295 p. 2025:8 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <757-44>
ISBN 978-2-406-18766-0 hard ¥20,506.- (税込) EUR 78.00
ISBN 978-2-406-18765-3 paper ¥7,624.- (税込) EUR 29.00

近代啓蒙思想－現在の危機のための洞察
Rohbeck, Johannes, Modern Enlightenment: Insights for the Crises of the Present. 265 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-6>
ISBN 978-3-662-71639-7 paper ¥8,672.- (税込) EUR 32.99

We share with the people of the Enlightenment the common experience of profound technical, social, and cultural upheavals. Even back then, many pressing questions of our time were being posed: about the claim to truth in science and politics, about the question of gender, about social and global justice, about sustainable economic practices, about peace in Europe and the world, and about how to deal with natural disasters. This book updates the insights of the Enlightenment and helps us use them to understand the crises of the present in a new way.

J.L.Garfield著　規範と自然－規範性の源についてのヒュームの記述
Garfield, Jay L., Norms and Nature: A Humean Account of the Sources of Normativity. 272 pp. 2026:1 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <756-5>
ISBN 978-0-19-783976-8 hard ¥23,562.- (税込) US$ 105.00

In The Treatise of Human Nature, Hume argued that we are normative animals, and he treats human nature in the context of, and on a par with, non-human nature. In Norms and Nature, Jay L. Garfield argues that Hume was right, and to demonstrate and explain this fact, he shows how the animals that we are construct norms, learn to conform to norms, and how we are transformed by the normative structures we come to inhabit. Garfield draws on the work of the American psychologist Edward Chace Tolman, who argued that the intentional could be naturalized without reducing it to the non-intentional and in the thought of those philosophers who shared that vision, including those in the Prasangika Madhyamaka tradition, as well as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Dewey, Wittgenstein, and Sellars. Norms and Nature examines what it is to be human in the full sense of the term: to be an organism that only comes to self-consciousness in virtue of being thrown into a world already pregnant with meaning; meaning that can only be constituted collectively. To be human is to be one whose very being is constituted both by the web of customs into which we are born. In this investigation, Garfield shows how much of our existence as persons depends upon a set of interlocking virtuous spirals that enable the development of the communities that make normativity possible, and on the development of the sets of norms that enable those communities to sustain themselves. Garfield argues that it is this very aspect of our nature which provides hope that we can improve ourselves. Norms and Nature offers a rich sense of our place as a species in the natural world, and of our places as individuals in the context of the social order that we create, and that in turn create us.

A.スミスの不完全な体系
Cremaschi, Sergio, Adam Smith's Incomplete System. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 256 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-15>
ISBN 978-1-041-04577-9 hard ¥44,181.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

On his deathbed, Adam Smith ordered the burning of two unfinished works on epistemology and politics, fearing that his image as a philosopher would be tarnished and his ideas misinterpreted. This book argues that the inability to complete these two works is symptomatic of tensions for which Smith found no resolution.The loss of Smith's final manuscripts led to a century and a half of deliberate neglect from philosophers and misinterpretation from economists. The book reconstructs the lost works from fragments, lecture notes, correspondence, and chapters from published works. It also examines the reasons for changes in various editions of the Theory of Moral Sentiments, and explores the hybrid argumentative strategy employed in the Wealth of Nations. The output serves as a map of a coherent system addressing the same questions as Kant and venturing onto the path later taken by the pragmatists. This roadmap will guide twenty-first-century readers through Smith's work.The book is essential reading for Adam Smith specialists, historians of economic thought and philosophers of science.

A.スミスと東インド会社
Donoghue, Mark, Adam Smith and the East India Company. (Routledge Studies in the History of Economics) 256 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-16>
ISBN 978-1-032-88451-6 hard ¥44,181.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This book examines Adam Smith's perspectives on the India question during a pivotal juncture when the East India Company evolved from a commercial enterprise into a de facto imperial authority in India. Smith astutely recognised the significance of this transition and anticipated its potential to unleash societal change. Yet despite the importance of his observations in The Wealth of Nations, Smith's treatment of the East India Company's operations and governance in India has received limited scholarly attention. This study addresses that oversight by arguing that Smith's reflections on India constitute an essential dimension of his political economy.Situating Smith within broader eighteenth-century debates on trade, colonial policy, and the moral legitimacy of empire, this study reinterprets his position on the East India Company's monopoly, the integration of Indo-European commerce, and the consequences of territorial acquisition in India. Challenging prevailing historiographical interpretations, it offers a new reading of Smith's views on the transfer of Indian territories to the British Crown. Although Smith neither visited India nor engaged directly in colonial administration or trade, his sustained interest in Indian affairs profoundly shaped his thinking on governance, commerce, and imperial reform. The book highlights Smith's recognition of India's wealth, his awareness of the strategic importance of the East Indies trade, and his call for institutional reforms to reconcile the East India Company's interests with Britain's evolving imperial responsibilities. In doing so, it dispels the assumption that Smith's theories were detached from the economic and political realities of empire and instead positions him as a key figure in the intellectual history of imperial thought. Bridging the fields of economic thought, imperial history, and Indian historiography, this book offers a fresh perspective on Smith's enduring relevance.At a time when questions about global trade, corporate power, and the legacies of empire remain deeply contested, Adam Smith and the East India Company revisits the early economic, political, and diplomatic entanglements between Britain and India, revealing how historical ties continue to shape the present. These insights are especially timely today, as the United Kingdom and India have recently concluded a new free trade agreement aimed at enhancing mutual market access-including in Indian textiles and gems, commodities once central to eighteenth-century trade flows and formative in shaping empire and global commerce. History reminds us that such exchanges are seldom without precedent. Economic exchange in the age of Smith laid the foundations for enduring commercial relationships and illustrates how contemporary agreements often reflect historical patterns forged in the crucible of early globalisation.This study will appeal to scholars and advanced research students in the history of economic thought, Indian economic history, business history, imperial studies, and eighteenth-century intellectual history.

Giri, Ananta Kumar / Uldanov, Artem A. et al. (eds.), Russian Social Thought in 19th Century. 170 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-17>
ISBN 978-1-032-27126-2 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-89054-8 paper ¥12,794.- (税込) GB￡ 41.99 *

Russian Social Thought in the 19th Century is a comprehensive introduction to pre-Soviet Russian social theory, tracing its evolution through the works of influential thinkers such as Pyotr Chaadaev, Leo Mechnikov, Mikhail Bakunin, Pyotr Kropotkin, and Pavel Lilienfeld. This pioneering text weaves together a chronological narrative that highlights the overlapping contributions of these intellectuals, rediscovering the broader roots of sociology within Russia's rich historical and philosophical landscape. By synthesizing key ideas and movements, the book provides an indispensable foundation for understanding the development of Russian social thought and its enduring impact on global intellectual traditions.Designed for an academic and scholarly audience, this book is an essential resource for students, educators, and researchers in Russian social theory, philosophy, sociology, history, and political science. It invites readers to delve deeply into the intellectual currents of 19th-century Russia, offering fresh insights and critical perspectives for those seeking to expand their understanding of social theory's historical dimensions.

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 ¥36,802.- (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 ¥52,317.- (税込) EUR 199.00

In this volume, a group of scholars from moral philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, and the history of philosophy explore the ideas of nature and naturalism as they occur 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 ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

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, 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 ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

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, 2021). 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 coexist 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 ¥5,783.- (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 ¥27,423.- (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 ¥27,423.- (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 ¥7,624.- (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 ¥20,769.- (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 ¥17,088.- (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 ¥22,852.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature, published anonymously in 1739-40, was his first major work of philosophy, and his only systematic, scientific analysis of human nature. It is now regarded as a classic text 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, the passions and ethics, and the early reception of the Treatise. Topics include the significance of Hume's treatment of the passion of curiosity, the critical responses to Hume's account of how we acquire belief in external objects, and Hume's 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 in eighteenth-century philosophy more generally.

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 ¥26,286.- (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 ¥10,489.- (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 58) 251 p. 2025 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <751-10>
ISBN 978-2-406-18324-2 hard ¥20,769.- (税込) EUR 79.00
ISBN 978-2-406-18323-5 paper ¥8,412.- (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 ¥27,423.- (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 ¥7,854.- (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 ¥14,586.- (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 ¥14,459.- (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 ¥28,946.- (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 ¥28,915.- (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 ¥8,976.- (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 behind its thinkers and their Eurocentric prejudices. In response, the most orthodox defenders of the Enlightenment have insisted that its values are not just foundational but indispensable and that abandoning them would mean 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 tactfully argued series of essays, Lilti emphasizes a non-dogmatic, non-ideological view of the Enlightenment-one that sees its legacy as a critical, attentive approach that can and should serve as its own best critic. Along the way, he engages with everyone from Rousseau and Kant to Foucault and Habermas, as well as prominent contemporary voices, such as Jonathan Israel. The result is a remarkable new reading of the Enlightenment that redraws the stakes of old debates and offers an alternative way to engage with both canonical thinkers and later scholarship 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 ¥25,806.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-84132-8 paper ¥7,854.- (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 ¥5,783.- (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 ¥27,596.- (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 ¥31,993.- (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 ¥22,215.- (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 ¥15,695.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-1908-8 paper ¥5,597.- (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 ¥4,567.- (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 and murals, too many 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 authentic 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-a life played out against a background of two world wars, the rise of communism, and the war-time pre-eminence of the United States. Yet no matter how alert he was to the world order, and no matter how guarded he was in his personal life, Orwell never shied 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 ¥23,661.- (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 ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00 *

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 ¥22,440.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *
ISBN 978-0-268-20915-5 paper ¥5,597.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

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 ¥10,098.- (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