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

Mistacco, Vicki, Louise de Keralio: Enlightenment Intellectual. 448 pp. 2026:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK)
ISBN 978-0-19-898831-1 hard ¥36,259.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

In this first book-length study of prolific polymath Louise de Keralio (1756-1822), Vicki Mistacco offers a comprehensive reading of her entire body of writing and a new understanding of Keralio as an Enlightenment intellectual and a modern feminist thinker. Mistacco adopts a fresh approach to Keralio's published and unpublished writing, undertaking close textual analysis informed by feminist literary criticism and French feminist theory, and carefully reconstructing the historical and cultural context, in order to challenge the critical commonplace that Keralio is a puzzling "sexist republican." She cautions against a piecemeal approach focused almost exclusively on Keralio's writings during the French Revolution. Reading literarily rather than literally, she argues against imposing modern definitions of feminist activism on Keralio and for considering instead the anti-patriarchal, anti-hierarchical, and anti-exclusionary paradigm at the core of her thinking, a both/and rather than either/or paradigm, which Keralio comes to envisage as a maternal one, reflected in the recurring motif of crossing boundaries. Through sustained analysis of works that have hitherto received only scant attention, Keralio's translations of John Carr's travelogues and her late novels (1808-1810), Mistacco sheds light on Keralio's use of "double-voiced discourse" to uphold her feminist ideals while ostensibly endorsing gender norms. The three parts of the book, "Women's Writing: Negotiating a Space," "Philosophizing in the Margins," and "The Missing Mother," trace the evolution in Keralio's thinking about the importance of including a matrimoine or maternal legacy in cultural patrimony, whether it be the contributions of French women writers to national identity and French genius (Collection des meilleurs ouvrages francais composes par des femmes), or those of Queen Elizabeth to the history of European sovereignty (Histoire d'Elisabeth, reine d'Angleterre), or her own annotations to her translations, or in her late novels the testimony of women to arrive at historical truth. Mistacco shows how the idea of maternal legacy evolves into that of maternal Enlightenment, arguing that Keralio elevates the maternal to the level of philosophy and theorizes a new social contract based on an ethics of care. Including unpublished and archival texts, this book offers an important contribution to the history of women intellectuals of the Enlightenment.

Xhignesse, Michel-Antoine / Young, James O. (eds.), Louis-Armand, Baron de Lahontan: Dialogues of Baron de Lahontan and a Savage. (British Society for the History of Philosophy: New Texts in the History of Philosophy) 112 pp. 2026:5 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <762-13>
ISBN 978-0-19-790200-4 hard ¥24,680.- (税込) GB￡ 81.00

Herzen, Alexander, Past and Thoughts: An Annotated Critical Edition. Tr. by R. N. Harris et al. 488 pp. 2026:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <762-11>
ISBN 978-0-674-49510-4 hard ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00

An annotated translation of Alexander Herzen's monumental memoir Past and Thoughts-the first new English-language edition in a century-captures the tumultuous life and penetrating cultural and political insights of the writer widely regarded as the founder of Russian socialism.Isaiah Berlin called Alexander Herzen's magnum opus, Past and Thoughts, "a literary masterpiece worthy to be placed by the side of the novels of . . . Tolstoy, Turgenev, Dostoevsky." It was the most influential memoir published in nineteenth-century Russia, and its impact extended far beyond the tsarist era and the empire's borders, inspiring generations of thinkers, leaders, and dissidents struggling against authoritarian regimes. The first English-language translation in a century, thoroughly annotated with a new introduction, this volume shows why Past and Thoughts is considered a great classic.Against a dramatic backdrop of war, revolution, and exile, Herzen tells a stirring story of political agitation, marital scandal, betrayal, and despair. Past and Thoughts begins with Napoleon's invasion of Moscow during Herzen's infancy, then follows the author's central role in Russia's emerging intelligentsia, his imprisonment and exile in the frozen north, his adventures across a mid-century Europe undergoing the turbulence of revolution and unification, and his founding of the first uncensored Russian-language press. We see the Paris revolts of 1848 and the flamboyant swashbucklers of Italy's Risorgimento through Herzen's sharp eyes, alongside his bold journalism, which reached both the tsar's prisoners and the Winter Palace.This edition restores a key section on the tragic denouement of Herzen's marriage-omitted from previous abridged versions-and includes notes offering critical insight into Herzen's historical sketches, travelogues, satire, poetry, philosophical excursions, and polemics. Tolstoy remarked that "Herzen awaits his readers in the future." A piercing investigation of the human spirit and its enemies, Past and Thoughts is indeed a work for our time.

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Broughton, Janet, Hume's Radical Scepticism. 144 pp. 2026:4 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <762-10>
ISBN 978-0-19-780572-5 hard ¥10,098.- (税込) US$ 45.00