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

Plunkett, Erin (ed.), Kierkegaard and Possibility. 240 pp. 2023:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-28>
ISBN 978-1-350-29898-9 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

How does our conception of possibility contribute to our understanding of self and world? In what sense does the possible differ from the merely probable, and what would it mean to treat possibility as part of the real? This book is an opportunity to see Kierkegaard as contributing to a distinctive phenomenology, ontology, and psychology of possibility that addresses the question of our existential relationship to the possible. The term 'possibility' (Mulighed) and its variants occur with curious frequency across Kierkegaard's writings. Key to Kierkegaard's understanding of the self, possibility is linked to a number of core concepts in his works: from imagination, anxiety, despair, and 'the moment' to the idea in The Sickness Unto Death that "God is that all things are possible". Responding to what he sees as a Hegelian and Aristotelian misunderstanding of possibility, Kierkegaard offers a novel reading of the possible that, in turn, directly influences 20th-century philosophers such as Heidegger, Deleuze, and Derrida. Kierkegaard gives a rich account of how anxiety and despair, as lived experiences of possibility, not only show us the contingency and fragility of the systems and identities we presently inhabit but also reveal a more fundamental contingency that demands a new way of relating to the possible. For Kierkegaard, hope, faith, and love are attitudes in which meaning is forged by embracing contingency. In a time of political, social, and environmental uncertainty Kierkegaard's work on radical possibility seems more relevant than ever.

Stone, Alison / Alderwick, Charlotte (eds.), Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain and America. 180 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024:12 <701-29>
ISBN 978-1-032-52172-5 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-52173-2 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This book advances the rediscovery of forgotten women philosophers in the nineteenth century who have been unjustly left out of the philosophical canon and omitted from narratives about the history of philosophy.Women often did philosophy in a public setting in this period, engaging with practical issues of social concern and using philosophy to make the world a better place. This book highlights some of women's interventions against slavery, for women's rights, and on morality, moral agency, and the conditions of a flourishing life. The chapters are on: Mary Shepherd's idea of life; the collaborative authorships and feminist perspectives of Anna Doyle Wheeler and Harriet Taylor Mill; the roles of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott in the American women's rights movement; the influence of classical German philosophy on Lydia Maria Child's abolitionism; George Eliot's understanding of agency; the views of agency and resistance developed by Harriet Tubman and Elizabeth from within the abolitionist tradition; Annie Besant's search for a metaphysical basis for ethics, which she ultimately found in Hinduism; E. E. Constance Jones on the dualism of practical reason; Marietta Kies on altruism and positive rights; and Anna Julia Cooper's black feminist conception of the right to growth. The book unearths an important and neglected chapter in the history of women philosophers, showing the variety and vitality of nineteenth-century women's intellectual lives.Nineteenth-Century Women Philosophers in Britain and America will be of great use to students and researchers interested in Philosophy, Women's Studies, and the politics of gender at the heart of British and American societies. This book was originally published as a special issue of British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

Verardi, Donato (ed.), Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe: Philosophers, Experimenters and Wonderworkers. (Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition) 240 pp. 2023:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-30>
ISBN 978-1-350-35716-7 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Reframing Aristotle's natural philosophy, this wide-ranging collection of essays reveals the centrality of magic to his thinking. From late medieval and Renaissance discussions on the attribution of magical works to Aristotle to the philosophical and social justifications of magic, international contributors chart magic as the mother science of natural philosophy. Tracing the nascent presence of Aristotelianism in early modern Europe, this volume shows the adaptability and openness of Aristotelianism to magic. Weaving the paranormal and the scientific together, it pairs the supposed superstition of the pre-modern era with modern scientific sensibilities. Essays focus on the work of early modern scholars and magicians such as Giambattista Della Porta, Wolferd Senguerd, and Johann Nikolaus Martius. The attribution of the Secretum secretorum to Aristotle, the role of illusionism, and the relationship between the technical and magical all provide further insight into the complex picture of magic, Aristotle and early modern Europe. Aristotelianism and Magic in Early Modern Europe proposes an innovative way of approaching the development of pre-modern science whilst also acknowledging the crucial role that concepts like magic and illusion played in Aristotle's time.

啓蒙思想の哲学における人類と人間性－ロックからカントまで
Buchenau, Stefanie / Lyssy, Ansgar (eds.), Humankind and Humanity in the Philosophy of the Enlightenment: From Locke to Kant. 280 pp. 2023:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-16>
ISBN 978-1-350-14293-0 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

What makes us human beings? Is it merely some corporeal aspect, or rather some specific mental capacity, language, or some form of moral agency or social life? Is there a gendered bias within the concept of humanity? How do human beings become more human, and can we somehow cease to be human? This volume provides some answers to these fundamental questions and more by charting the increased preoccupation of the European Enlightenment with the concepts of humankind and humanity. Chapters investigate the philosophical concerns of major figures across Western Europe, including Montesquieu, Diderot, Rousseau, Locke, Hume, Ferguson, Kant, Herder, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and the Comte de Buffon. As these philosophers develop important descriptive and comparative approaches to the human species and moral and social ideals of humanity, they present a view of the Enlightenment project as a particular kind of humanism that is different from its Ancient and Renaissance predecessors. With contributions from a team of internationally recognized scholars, including Stephen Gaukroger, Michael Forster, Celine Spector, Jacqueline Taylor, and Guenter Zoeller, this book offers a novel interpretation of the Enlightenment that is both clear in focus and impressive in scope.

カントの自由と人間性論
Filieri, Luigi / Moller, Sofie (eds.), Kant on Freedom and Human Nature. (Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy) 304 pp. 2023:8 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <701-22>
ISBN 978-1-032-19508-7 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-19601-5 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The essays in this volume provide new readings of Kant's account of human nature.Despite the relevance of human nature to Kant's philosophy, little attention has been paid to the fact that the question about human nature originally pertains to pure reason. The chapters in this volume show that Kant's point is not to state once and for all what the human being actually is, but to unite pure reason's efforts within a unitary teleological perspective. The question about human nature is the cornerstone of reason's unity in its different activities and domains. Kant's question about human nature goes beyond our empirical inquiries to show that the notion of humanity represents the point of convergence and unity of pure reason's most fundamental interests.Kant on Freedom and Human Nature will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Kant's philosophy.

Fulvi, Daniele, Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent: From Philosophy of Nature to Environmental Ethics. (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy) 240 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024 <701-23>
ISBN 978-1-032-35154-4 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-35155-1 paper ¥11,150.- (税込) GB￡ 38.99 *

This book offers a cutting-edge interpretation of the philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling by critically reconsidering the interpretations of some of his "successors." It argues that Schelling's philosophy should be read as an ontology of immanence, highlighting its relevance for ongoing debates on ethics and freedom.The book builds on a key notion from Schelling's Philosophy of Revelation where he outlines the process through which transcendence must return to immanence in order to be grasped and understood. The author identifies Jaspers, Heidegger, and Deleuze as the main interpreters of Schelling's philosophical activity, highlighting their relevance for subsequent Schelling scholarship. Heidegger and Jaspers refer to Schelling's philosophy in negative terms, namely as an incomplete and unviable philosophical system, whereas Deleuze holds the immanent core of Schelling's ontological discourse in high regard. The author's analysis demonstrates that reading Schelling's philosophy as an ontology of immanence not only avoids Heidegger's and Jaspers's criticisms but is also more fitting to Schelling's original meaning. Accordingly, his reading allows us to fully grasp Schelling's thought in all its strength and consistency: as a philosophy that avoids metaphysical abstractions and maintains the concreteness of concepts like God, nature, freedom by binding them to a solid and material account of Being. Finally, the author uses Schelling to propose an innovative reading of freedom as a matter of resistance, and of philosophy as an activity whose main purpose is that of seeking the actual extent and place of (human) life and freedom within nature. The author originally emphasises the relevance of these conclusions on contemporary debates in Postcolonial Critical Theory and Environmental Ethics. Schelling, Freedom, and the Immanent Made Transcendent. From Philosophy of Nature to Environmental Ethics will appeal to scholars and advanced students working in 19th-century Continental philosophy, German idealism, and Postcolonial Critical Theory and Environmental Ethics.

Kuplen, Mojca, Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism: On the Value of Art. 208 pp. 2023:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) * paper 2024:1 <701-24>
ISBN 978-1-350-28951-2 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-28955-0 paper ¥8,290.- (税込) GB￡ 28.99 *

Mojca Kuplen connects 18th-century German aesthetics to contemporary theories of self-knowledge in order to highlight the unique cognitive value of art. She does this through revisiting Kant's account of aesthetic ideas, and demonstrating how works of art can increase our understanding of abstract concepts whilst promoting self-knowledge. Addressing some of the most fundamental questions in contemporary aesthetics and philosophy of art, this study covers the value and importance of art, the relationship between art and beauty, the role of knowledge in art and the criteria for artistic excellence. It offers an insight into problems related to the apprehension of meaning and the cognitive processing of abstract representations that have been of interest to contemporary cognitive science. Kant's Aesthetic Cognitivism presents these arguments in a lucid and wide-ranging engagement with the history of aesthetics and current academic debates to understand what art is and why it is valuable.

Laerke, Mogens / Catana, Leo (eds.), Historiographies of Philosophy 1800-1950. 242 pp. 2023:9 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2024:12 <701-25>
ISBN 978-1-032-52170-1 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *
ISBN 978-1-032-52171-8 paper ¥11,436.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

This volume discusses ways in which the history of philosophy has been written, from 1800 to 1950, and how it has been informed and guided by institutional, cultural, political, philosophical, and non-philosophical factors. Since its inception as a discipline, histories of philosophy have been written in different ways, depending on author, place, and time; they have varied according to institutional frameworks, cultural settings, and philosophical and non-philosophical contexts. At each stage of the discipline's development and evolution, philosophy has constantly used the history of philosophy for its own purposes by adapting it, transforming it, rejecting it, embracing it, and rewriting it at every step of the way. The chapters in this book examine the methods deployed by historians of philosophy, epistemological foundations laid down for those methods, and the philosophical (or non-philosophical) aims pursued using those methods. This book will be a great resource for academics, researchers, and advanced students of philosophy and related fields, including political philosophy and history of philosophy. It was originally published as a special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy.

McNeal, Michael J. (ed.), Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine: A Critique of Truth and Values. 272 pp. 2023:8 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-26>
ISBN 978-1-350-34528-7 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

By re-examining Nietzsche's notion of the "eternal-feminine" and his views on women and feminism, this volume offers new perspectives on some of his key ideas. It brings together a diverse group of scholars to critically engage with Nietzsche's use of late-19th-century gender stereotypes and the ways in which they served his critique of values, including his use of "woman" as a trope for truth. Among other subjects, the contributors consider the role of psychology in Nietzsche's thought, his concern with style, self-creation, and advocacy of perfectionism, his views on romantic love and marriage, and his aim of revaluing all values to instigate a distant philosophy of the future. They investigate parallels between Nietzsche's thought and Shaktism, his relation to Goethe and Stendahl, and his influence on Beauvoir, Butler, and Dohm. With the inclusion of two seminal essays on Nietzsche and women by Lawrence J. Hatab and Kelly Oliver, the volume also illustrates some of the ways in which scholarship on these subjects has evolved over the last four decades. Providing fresh insights into these inter-related subjects, Nietzsche on Women and the Eternal-Feminine highlights the enduring relevance of his thought and its still-underappreciated potential for re-thinking both the bases for and aims of feminism and other emancipatory movements.

Mihaylova, Katerina / Ezekiel, Anna (eds.), Hope and the Kantian Legacy: New Contributions to the History of Optimism. (Bloomsbury Studies in Modern German Philosophy) 384 pp. 2023:10 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <701-27>
ISBN 978-1-350-23808-4 hard ¥37,180.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

Hope is understood to be a significant part of human experience, including for motivating behaviour, promoting happiness, and justifying a conception of the self as having agency. Yet substantial gaps remain regarding the development of the concept of hope in the history of philosophy. This collection addresses this gap by reconstructing and analysing a variety of approaches to hope in late 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy. In 1781, Kant's idea of a "rational hope" shifted the terms of discussion about hope and its role for human self-understanding. In the 19th century, a wide-ranging debate over the meaning and function of hope emerged in response to his work. Drawing on expertise from a diverse group of contributors, this collection explores perspectives on hope from Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Schopenhauer, J. S. Beck, J. C. Hoffbauer, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Georg Friedrich Creuzer, Kierkegaard and others. Chapters consider different aspects of the concept of hope, including the rationality of hope, appropriate and inappropriate applications of hope and the function of hope in relation to religion and society. The result is a valuable collection covering a century of the role of hope in shaping cognitive attitudes and constructing social, political and moral communities. As an overview of philosophical approaches to hope during this period, including by philosophers who are seldom studied today, the collection constitutes a valuable resource for exploring the development of this important concept in post-Kantian German philosophy.