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

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 ¥7,276.- (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 ¥13,513.- (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 ¥12,947.- (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 ¥26,856.- (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.