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

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 ¥26,374.- (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 ¥8,316.- (税込) US$ 40.00

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

ファシズムという語の歴史
Marcon, Federico, Fascism: The History of a Word. (The Life of Ideas) 448 pp. 2025:6 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-27>
ISBN 978-0-226-84130-4 hard ¥23,908.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-84132-8 paper ¥7,276.- (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 ¥5,275.- (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.