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

Benjamin, Walter, Berlin Childhood around 1900. Tr. by S. W. Nicholsen. 144 pp. 2025:11 (Verso, UK) <746-87>
ISBN 978-1-83674-014-8 hard ¥4,154.- (税込) GB￡ 14.99

Completed in exile in Paris, as the second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. The book is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the iconic spaces of city. These are 'expeditions into the depths of memory', moving through vignettes of domestic settings and classrooms, city squares, parks and streets. The memories of childhood merge with a city that is about to disappear into darkness. As his friend, Adorno, wrote, the work is 'illuminated by lightning flashes of immediate remembrance . . .the images this book unearths and brings strangely near are not idyllic and not contemplative. Over them lies the shadow of the Third Reich. And through them dreamily runs a shudder at the long forgotten.'

Kratochvil, Sylvia, Nouveaux mondes amoureux: Benjamin entre Paris, Moscou et Barcelone. (Philosophie) 207 p. 2025:2 (Mimesis, IT) <746-89>
ISBN 978-88-697-6453-0 paper ¥4,197.- (税込) EUR 18.00

批判理論、ポスト構造主義、「ニーチェのパラドクス」－弁証法をめぐるアドルノとドゥルーズの間の失われた議論－
Kastrinakis, Nektarios, Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and 'Nietzsche's Paradox': The Missing Debate Between Adorno and Deleuze Over Dialectics. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 264 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-73>
ISBN 978-1-041-05227-2 hard ¥40,194.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and 'Nietzsche's Paradox' addresses a fundamental question in the exchange between Critical Theory and Poststructuralism: is poststructuralism justified in its critique of dialectical thinking and in the conclusion of this critique that we need to leave dialectics behind us to properly understand the social world?When Deleuze's book Nietzsche and Philosophy was first published back in 1962, it caused a sensation in France, and its Nietzschean critique of Hegelian dialectics played a pivotal role in the emergence of the current of thought we call poststructuralism. However, to what extent is this critique valid and justified? This question has never been adequately investigated. With this book, Nektarios Kastrinakis attempts such an investigation through the exploration of the influence of Nietzsche in both Deleuze and Adorno. More specifically, he investigates a paradox in 20th century philosophy, the 'paradox of Nietzsche': Nietzsche is claimed by Deleuze to be a fierce critic of Hegel's dialectics and by authors like Gillian Rose and Karin Bauer to be the originator of Adorno's negative dialectics. Kastrinakis' argues that there are in fact at least "two Nietzsches", one with an irrationalistic and one with a rationalistic critique of identity thinking, on which both poststructuralism/Deleuze and Critical Theory/Adorno, respectively, lay a legitimate claim. He also enacts the missing in the literature debate between Adorno and Deleuze, which concludes that Adorno's critique of identity thinking (his negative dialectics), when modified to include an affirmative moment at its heart, unacknowledged by Adorno himself, can effectively challenge Deleuze's Nietzschean critique of dialectics.Critical Theory, Poststructuralism and 'Nietzsche's Paradox' intervenes in the boundary between political philosophy and philosophy, and will be of interest to scholars of Nietzsche, Deleuze, Adorno, but also generally of poststructuralism and Critical Theory, in these disciplines.