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

Roemer, Inga, Kant et la metaphysique pour l'homme. (Epimethee) 411 p. 2024:11 (PUF, FR) <740-30>
ISBN 978-2-13-087079-1 paper ¥8,153.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Schmidt, Volker H., From Societas to World Society: Genealogy of a Concept. (Theory Workshop 3) 410 pp. 2025:5 (Brill, NE) <740-31>
ISBN 978-90-04-72710-6 hard ¥32,373.- (税込) EUR 135.00

From Societas to World Society offers a genealogy of what is arguably sociology's most important concept, that of "society." The book covers this concept's entire intellectual history from its first systematization in Roman law 2,500 years ago to its crystallization in what Schmidt calls today's default model, informing both empirical research and theoretical logic in the social sciences, which he shows to be highly problematic. As an alternative, Schmidt suggests a conceptualization building upon Niklas Luhmann's theory of world society, which can be utilized for overcoming the former's Eurocentrism and to lay the groundwork for a genuinely global social science.

Soltes, Ori Z., From Plato to Panini to Levinas: The Problem of Language for Philosophy and Theology. 330 pp. 2025:5 (Routledge, UK) <740-32>
ISBN 978-1-032-52203-6 hard ¥41,470.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

This volume offers an innovative exploration of Western social and religious thought and bridges the expression of a regional imagination with several planetary conversations. It reconnects Plato and philosophy to the issue of theology and religion and the limits of language as an instrument in engaging both disciplines. While beginning with the language problem as Socrates lays it out in Plato's Cratylus, it wends its way through the Panini-inspired discussion of language across Western thought and turns to an examination of the idea of theodicy-the justice of God in its relationship to humans: how do the innocent suffer-for example, during the Holocaust-in a world made by God? The book ultimately turns arouand to consider how particular contemporary Indian thinkers have taken up both Western thought and the issue of language and its applicability to philosophy and theology. It thus offers new horizons in the Western World and India by connecting Plato's Cratylus to the works of Saussure, Wittgenstein, Barthes, Derrida, Levinas, as well as to Panini, Aurobindo, Ranjan Dass, Giri, and the Gita. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of philosophy, linguistics, and religion.

Stewart, Jon, A History of Hegelianism in Golden Age Denmark. Tome III: Kierkegaard and Left-Hegelian Period: 1842-1855. (Danish Golden Age Studies 15) 805 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <740-33>
ISBN 978-90-04-53485-8 hard ¥54,914.- (税込) EUR 229.00

This is the third volume of a three-volume work dedicated to exploring the influence of G.W.F. Hegel's philosophical thinking in Golden Age Denmark. The work demonstrates that the largely overlooked tradition of Danish Hegelianism played a profound and indeed constitutive role in many spheres of the Golden Age culture. This third tome covers the most exciting and dynamic time in the Danish Hegel reception from 1842 to 1855. This heterogeneous period saw the emergence of several new figures, many of whom were associated with the left-Hegelian school. This period is best known for the publication of the pseudonymous works of Soren Kierkegaard. The present tome places these famous works in the context of other contemporary Danish discussions about Hegel's philosophy. It shows that many of Kierkegaard's criticisms had been raised by other Danish thinkers before him and that a large part of his polemical campaign was aimed at the leading figures of the previous periods of the Danish Hegel reception, namely, Johan Ludvig Heiberg and Hans Martensen.

中国哲学ハンドブック
Tiwald, Justin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy. (Oxford Handbooks) 496 pp. 2025:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <740-34>
ISBN 978-0-19-994549-8 hard ¥40,748.- (税込) US$ 196.00 *

The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Philosophy collects new essays by both senior and up and coming contributors, on important texts and figures in the history of Chinese thought. The essays cover both well-known texts such as the Analects and the Zhuangzi as well as many of the lesser-known thinkers in the classical and post-classical Chinese tradition. Most of the chapters focus on thinkers or texts in one of three important historical movements: Classical ("pre-Qin") Chinese philosophy, Chinese Buddhism, and the Confucian response to Buddhism ("neo-Confucianism" broadly construed). The volume provides an accessible point of entry into the more challenging and technical post-classical tradition, including Chinese Buddhism and neo-Confucianism from the Song dynasty onward. Topics covered include ethics and its foundations, politics, knowledge, philosophical psychology, and metaphysics. Each essay presents cutting-edge work on important topics in the Chinese tradition and yet is written for a general philosophical audience.

Petit, Alain, Le monde et le divin: etudes de philosophie antique et moderne. (Travaux de philosophie) 310 p. 2024:11 (Champion, FR) <740-20>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6195-0 paper ¥11,510.- (税込) EUR 48.00

Ahmed, Asad Q. / Zarepour, M. S. / Strobino, R. (eds.), Logic, Soul, and World: Essays in Arabic Philosophy in Honor of Tony Street. (Islamic Philosophy, Theology & Science: Texts & Studies 130) 525 pp. 2025:4 (Brill, NE) <740-22>
ISBN 978-90-04-72727-4 hard ¥35,730.- (税込) EUR 149.00

The highly original contributions in this volume engage various figures, periods, geographical areas, and topics related to Arabic philosphy and logic. Most of the chapters in this collection are directly related to logic. Some of them are on issues related to the existence of the immaterial human soul, its acquisition of knowledge, and its interaction with the external world in general. A third group of articles deals with some metaphysical issues regarding the world, independently of how it is perceived by the human mind. Many of the articles included in this collection offer solutions to longstanding queries of the discipline or open up entirely new directions for future investigations.

19世紀フランスにおける形而上学と科学
Antoine-Mahut, Delphine / Leze, Samuel (eds.), Metaphysics and the Sciences in Nineteenth-Century France. (Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies 3) 512 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <740-23>
ISBN 978-90-04-72220-0 hard ¥54,914.- (税込) EUR 229.00

This volume is the first systematic study of the style of reasoning specific to the field of philosophy in nineteenth-century France. The chapters analyze the often dispersed responses to the fundamental question of the division of the sciences based on the reciprocal relationships of inclusion or exclusion, of adversity or sorority, between metaphysics and the positive sciences. In line with the arrhythmic progress of the different forms of knowledge, these responses renew the Condillacian criticisms of the Cartesian order of the relationships between metaphysics and physics. Between a pronounced divorce and a successful marriage, this volume traces the philosophical history of the various attempts at divorce or union, which, as the century progressed, resulted in original hybridizations that aspired to define a new and ever-problematic "French philosophy."

Meliado, Mario / Muratori, Cecilia (eds.), Dissident Renaissance: Rewriting the History of Early Modern Philosophy as Political Practice. (Brill's Series in Philosophical Historiographies 2) 289 pp. 2025:3 (Brill, NE) <740-25>
ISBN 978-90-04-72231-6 hard ¥42,924.- (税込) EUR 179.00
ISBN 978-90-04-72231-6 hard ¥42,924.- (税込) EUR 179.00

The Renaissance has a peculiar status in philosophical historiography: it tends to disappear from the dominant narrative-as Charles Schmitt famously noticed-but it also resurfaces unexpectedly in marginal reception histories. This book casts light on intellectual constellations or geographical areas, which have traditionally been considered peripheral to the emergence of the Renaissance. The case studies presented in the book explore philosophical historiography as a political practice, showing how, in times of cultural crisis or change, the scholarly rediscovery of the Renaissance often served to develop or legitimise an ideal of social, religious or moral reform. Driven by personal concerns and political choices, historiography is revealed as an act of dissent against mainstream reconstructions.

カントの政治哲学講義－批判的案内
Rauscher, Frederick (ed.), Kant's Lectures on Political Philosophy: A Critical Guide. (Cambridge Critical Guides) 326 pp. 2025:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <740-28>
ISBN 978-1-009-21508-4 hard ¥25,740.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

A decade prior to his main publications in political philosophy, Kant presented his views on the topic in his 1784 course lectures on natural right. This Critical Guide examines this only surviving student transcript of these lectures, which shows how Kant's political philosophy developed in response to the dominant natural law tradition and other theories. Fourteen new essays explore how Kant's lectures reveal his assessment of natural law, the central value of freedom, the importance of property and contract, the purposes and powers of the state, and the role of individual autonomy and the rights of human beings. The essays place his claims in relation to events and other publications of the early 1780s, and show Kant in the process of working out the theories which would later characterize his influential political philosophy.

Rouquayrol, Louis, Descartes et la culture des esprits: du bon sens au sens commun. (Travaux de philosophie) 356 p. 2024:11 (Champion, FR) <740-29>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6205-6 paper ¥11,990.- (税込) EUR 50.00

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 ¥6,234.- (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.

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 ¥39,567.- (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.