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

Dhawan, Nikita, Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans: Critical Theories of Decolonization. 384 pp. 2026:2 (Duke U. Pr., US) <764-24>
ISBN 978-1-4780-2945-8 hard ¥23,665.- (税込) US$ 104.95
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In Rescuing the Enlightenment from the Europeans, Nikita Dhawan puts the critical project of decolonization into conversation with the Enlightenment. She explores the ethical-political challenges faced by postcolonial thought, which must be articulated using the very language of Enlightenment discourses on human rights, democracy, international law, sovereignty, and justice-even as these norms are subjects of postcolonial critique. Bridging postcolonial and Holocaust studies, while also highlighting the differences from decolonial approaches, she engages with thinkers ranging from Kant to the Frankfurt school to defend against accusations of normative nihilism, antisemitism, and epistemic servitude to Europe. Dhawan argues that criticizing the Enlightenment and its legacies does not necessarily entail rejecting them, nor does engaging with Enlightenment principles mean endorsing them unconditionally. Instead, she makes a case for rescuing the best aspects of the Enlightenment in order to further the critical project of decolonization.

ロックと旅行記－哲学、政治、場所
Di Biase, Giuliana / Farr, James (eds.), John Locke and Travel Writing: Philosophy, Politics, Places. (Archives internationales d'histoire des idees / International Archives of the History of Ideas 254) 307 pp. 2026:3 (Springer, GW) <764-25>
ISBN 978-3-032-13360-1 hard ¥39,761.- (税込) EUR 149.99

This book offers an exciting array of contributions to the study of Locke's own study of travel literature. The importance of its vast topic was acknowledged from the beginning of serious secondary writing about him. Lord Peter King, in his Life of John Locke (1829), remarked that Locke "employed his leisure in reading books of travels, of the best of which he was a great admirer." This book, drawing upon and considerably expanding the contents of a 2022 special issue of Studi Lockiani, provides recent findings and discoveries, pressing into uncharted areas. The authors and editors use a wide array of sources, treating "travel literature" broadly and capaciously to include the grand works of travel represented by Hakluyt, Purchas, Bernier, Thevenot, Ramusio, Ogilby, and Sagard, as well as specific "relations" of travels to the far reaches of the world, information-conveying correspondence, notebook entries, and maps (especially when annotated). The topic is of great interest not only to Locke scholars, but also to all those investigating cultural anthropology, political philosophy, the expansion of colonialism, the history of ideas, and their circulation in the early modern period.