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

カント、アドルノ、歴史の形態
Allen, William S., Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History. 264 pp. 2025:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-55>
ISBN 979-87-651-3396-5 hard ¥26,235.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History sets the works of Theodor Adorno, Immanuel Kant and Peter Weiss in dialogue, revealing how an interrogation of the aesthetics of 'the whole' and the conception of history in Western thought reveals new ways of thinking about history and historically.To conceive of history as such it is necessary to conceive it as a whole, but doing so carries implications about its development and direction. Furthermore, such an idea makes it difficult to consider its parts without subsuming them to the whole, thereby making individuals merely instrumental to achieving the aims of history. William S. Allen brings the thought of Kant, Adorno and Weiss to bear on these tensions, tracing how Adorno's reconsideration of history through his readings of Kant's Critique of Judgement are distinct from formulations offered by other thinkers (Marx, Hegel, Lyotard). Allen establishes that Kant's Critique of Judgement is not only a sustained analysis of the development of forms, whether aesthetic or organic, but also a tacit interrogation of the form of the whole and the possibilities of thinking it. Kant, Adorno, and the Forms of History argues that Adorno has taken up this interrogation more than any other thinker and through his aesthetics has introduced an alternative thought, which has been modified and extended in the work of Peter Weiss in his last novel, The Aesthetics of Resistance. Within this thought lies the possibility of thinking history without the whole, without unity or purpose, which is a possibility that may offer new insights in the face of imminent environmental, economic and political collapse.

Akker, Chiel van de, Knowledge and Narrative. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <757-1850>
ISBN 978-1-009-53971-5 hard ¥16,032.- (税込) GB￡ 55.00
ISBN 978-1-009-10834-8 paper ¥5,247.- (税込) GB￡ 18.00

This Element is concerned with narrative as a mode of knowing. It draws attention to the epistemic value of historical narrative qua narrative. This it does not only in an abstract sense, but also with the help of recent works of history. Special attention is given to narrative sentences and narrative theses. A narrative thesis re-describes the actions and events the historian is concerned with and allows for the temporal whole or unity we associate with narrative, with its beginning, middle, and end. A thesis, it is argued, is indispensable and qualifies the work of historians as narrative. The concern with narrative has not lost any of its relevance, for the simple reason that it informs us about history as an academic discipline and the knowledge it produces. For as long as historians decide what events are important in their past and for what reason, they will rely on narrative.

歴史学とビッグヒストリーの哲学ハンドブック
Tucker, Aviezer / Cernin, David (eds.), The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History. (Bloomsbury Handbooks) 528 pp. 2025:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <757-1853>
ISBN 978-1-350-40919-4 hard ¥37,895.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00

This handbook examines the philosophy of the historical sciences and their synthesis in concepts like Big or Deep History. Written by interdisciplinary philosophers, historians, and scientists, it acts as a valuable guide for anybody interested in scientific knowledge of the deep past, Big History, and the philosophy of science.The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Philosophy of the Historical Sciences and Big History is the first philosophical reference work to recognize that History is not what it used to be: the historical sciences, Deep History, Big History, and even the history of the Anthropocene have now expanded the scope of historiography beyond that of literate civilizations to cover all scientific inferences about the past, from the Big Bang through the history of the planet and the history of life to the history of humanity. Different views about the scope of History have ontological, epistemic, methodological, explanatory, ethical, and educational reasons and implications. The historical sciences and the knowledge they have generated are founded on theories of knowledge of the past, epistemology of history. The contributions in this book consider whether there are common epistemic properties to all the historical sciences that distinguish them from non-historical or theoretical sciences.The first part of the handbook examines the recent expansion of the scope of the historical sciences in Big History, natural history, global history, and environmental history, and older broader concepts of history like universal history and philosophy of history. The second part of the handbook addresses the ontology and epistemology of the past, including the basic concepts of the historical sciences such as origins, the end of history, determination and underdetermination, contingency and necessity, historical predictions and counterfactuals, and historical pseudoscience. The third part examines the philosophies of the special historical sciences, historical linguistics, textual criticism, geology, evolutionary biology, systematics, archaeology, cosmology, history of the environment, and most significantly, their integrations and combinations - for example, how genetics, archaeology, and historical linguistics have generated a whole new knowledge of deep human history.This collection offers an overview of what the philosophy of the historical sciences is and is becoming for students and experts alike.

Pozo, Gonzalo, The Heretic: The Life and Work of Isaac Deutscher. 256 pp. 2026:6 (Verso, UK) <757-135>
ISBN 978-1-78873-396-0 paper ¥5,830.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00

Polish and British, non-Jewish Jew, critic, journalist, essayist, historian. above all, Marxist thinker, Isaac Deutscher (1907-67), was both one of the most celebrated and most controversial intellectuals of Cold War. Best known for his biographies of Stalin (1949) and Trotsky (1953-62), he was born in an observant Yiddish-speaking family in Chrzanow, a shtetl only a few miles away from Auschwitz. Still in his teens, he moved to Warsaw where he published poetry and literary journalism. A member of the Communist party from late 1926, his open opposition to Stalinist orthodoxy resulted in his expulsion in 1932. His clear-eyed anticipation of a joint Nazi-Soviet invasion, pushed him to abandon Poland for London in 1939. After a successful career at the news desks at The Economist and The Observer, he turned himself into a freelance historian, thinker and internationally-renowned expert on Russian and Eastern European affairs. His voluminous writing, his clairvoyance and courage, and his compelling style, made him an essential intellectual resource during the fifties and sixties, and left a lasting impact on the New Left even after his death. Based on extensive international research, The Heretic draws on new archival material and interviews, offering the most comprehensive study of Deutscher's life and work to date. Focusing on his political and intellectual evolution, Gonzalo Pozo maps Deutscher's numerous international dialogues and controversies both on the left and on the right, and critically interrogates his historical and ethical actuality for our time.

歴史社会学研究ハンドブック
van Leeuwen, Marco H. D. (ed.), Research Handbook on Historical Sociology. (Research Handbooks in Sociology) 592 pp. 2026:4 (E. Elgar, UK) <757-1487>
ISBN 978-1-0353-0106-5 hard ¥72,875.- (税込) GB￡ 250.00

This insightful Research Handbook provides an in-depth survey of global historical sociology. Expert contributors explore this rich, interdisciplinary field, which sits at the crossroads between history, sociology, and other social sciences including economics, demography, geography, and political science.In an engaging and accessible style, expert scholars and practitioners discuss past and state-of-the-art research, exploring theory, research design, data, empirical results, and ways forward in their field. Key themes include social inequality, social solidarity, institutions, family, and demography. In particular, chapters highlight how both the spatial and temporal aspects of historical sociology are integral to understanding societies. While quantitative datasets are growing increasingly bigger and more encompassing, the contributing authors emphasize the continued need for theoretical approaches to bridge the gaps between quantitative and qualitative methods.The Research Handbook on Historical Sociology is an essential resource for students and academics in sociology, history, and economics, as well as researchers and practitioners across the social sciences looking to understand social change over time.