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

政治学における怒り－アリストテレスから今日までの怒りの分析
Hertzoff, Andrew, Anger in Politics: An Analysis of Anger from Aristotle to Today. 524 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <756-639>
ISBN 978-3-031-94712-4 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

Anger is everywhere today. Why is there so much anger in our politics? Why do some things feed unreasonable rage, and other outrageous things fail to provoke outrage? What should we be angry about and how? Some see anger as a toxic force endangering political debate, democracy, and civil society; others see anger as a the only proper motivation to pursue injustice. In this debate, Hertzoff offers considerations grounded in Aristotle's treatment of anger. When, why, and in what ways we become angry need to be judged against a standard of virtuous anger, measured against concepts of justice, dignity, and nobility. In bringing together Aristotle's concept and treatment with our concerns with anger in our society gives us reason to rethink our views of anger, how we learn to be angry, and how we teach children to be angry properly .

〔英訳〕C.シュミット著『第二帝政の国家構造と崩壊－軍人に対する市民の勝利』
Schmitt, Carl, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier. Tr. by S. G. Zeitlin. 160 pp. 2025:12 (Polity Pr., UK) <756-641>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6624-2 hard ¥7,469.- (税込) US$ 35.00

Newly published for the first time in English translation, Carl Schmitt's 1934 tract, State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich: The Victory of the Bourgeois Citizen over the Soldier, is an important addition to the corpus of Schmitt's work in English. Written and published at the height of Carl Schmitt's entanglement with National Socialism, this work outlines Schmitt's historical and propagandistic account of the collapse of the Second German Empire and of Germany's defeat in the First World War and sets the stage for his account of what should come next. In this swiftly paced polemical history, Schmitt locates the roots of Germany's defeat in the First World War in constitutional compromises between the Prussian soldier state and the liberal bourgeois citizenry forged in the course of the nineteenth century. These compromises left unresolved the tension between liberal constitutionalism and an executive-led strong state built on military power, preventing the Reich from being able to mobilize German society in order to wage a successful war effort. Schmitt's account of how the Bismarckian Reich was undermined from within serves as a guide, in his view, for how the Nazi regime should avoid a similar fate. A work of crisply riveting and, at times, haunting prose, Schmitt's State Composition and Collapse of the Second Reich will be a source of persistent historical interest to all students of history, politics, Nazism, political thought and the First and Second World Wars.

Rogers, Michael Dylan, The Pluralism of Order: Physics, Epistemology and Political Thought in Germany and Austria, 1914-1945. (Political Epistemology) 200 pp. 2025:8 (Springer, GW) <756-39>
ISBN 978-3-032-00368-3 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book offers a new perspective on the emergence of concepts that shaped the world, set against the dramatic background of political upheaval and crisis of scientific knowledge that characterized interwar Germany and Austria. On the one hand, the political-theoretical certainties of previous generations were rendered suddenly obsolete by the imperatives of total war. On the other hand, the old certainties of a reductive and deterministic conception of scientific knowledge had likewise been destabilized, in this case by the revolutionary discoveries of Relativity Theory and Quantum Mechanics. Among the philosophically literate intelligentsia of interwar Germany and Austria, the juxtaposition of such radical epistemic and political insecurity created fertile ground for the cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines. Using a network-oriented approach, this book traces key lines of influence, following the development, dissemination, and reinterpretation of concepts from domains of political thought to epistemology and back again. It is of interest and importance to a broad range of readers interested in learning how the ideas of physicist-philosophers like Albert Einstein and Werner Heisenberg shaped the paradigms within which major theorists like Walter Benjamin and Carl Schmitt opened up new horizons for political thought.

地政学的空間－C.シュミットに関する学際的研究
Chiantera-Stutte, Patricia / Jureit, Ulrike (eds.), Geo - Political Spaces: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Carl Schmitt. (Ideas beyond Borders) 280 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-619>
ISBN 978-1-032-90646-1 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

This book focuses on the geographical and geopolitical sources for Carl Schmitt's multilayered political thinking in order to uncover the relation between the political and the geographical aspects of his concept of space from 1939 to 1950. The aim is therefore to open up a field of enquiry, specifically to investigate Schmitt's sources in the geographical and geopolitical literature inside and outside Germany in order to reconstruct the genealogy of his idea of space, territory and international order. In doing so, the contributors aim both to distinguish concepts that have generally been only vaguely defined in the literature on Schmitt, namely his idea of space, political territory and land, and to define more precisely the relationship between Schmitt's Grossraum and the National Socialist Lebensraum.This book refers to, complements and goes beyond three different approaches - International Relations, geography and philology: First, in that it explores the genealogy of Schmitt's concept of space by adopting a twofold methodology of intellectual history and philology; second, in that it considers the relevance of language in Schmitt's discourse on power and space; third, in that it relates Schmitt's thinking to the transnational literature on geopolitics and political geography.Geo - Political Spaces will appeal to academics and the well-informed public at large. It is also suitable for academic teaching, especially when it comes to historical theory, the concept of space or the history of political thought.

Felici, Lucia / Imbruglia, Girolamo, A Cultural History of Tolerance: Ideas, Conflicts, and Protagonists. (Ideas beyond Borders) 298 pp. 2025:12 (Routledge, UK) <755-620>
ISBN 978-1-032-83535-8 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Covering the entire European system and its relations with the East and America, this first global history of tolerance in early modern Europe describes how the ideal of tolerance and its realisation transformed both the religious and political life of the modern world.In the sixteenth century, Christianity was split apart by the Lutheran revolt, a fracture which would become a political one. Erasmus, Castellion, and the Socinians defended the freedom of conscience and of faith, and the right to belong to a heretical church. The violent political clashes in France, Holland and Great Britain seemed to make the latter impossible, as the relationship between religion and politics was at the centre of those conflicts. The theory of a new politics was devised by Hobbes and developed by Spinoza and Locke: Sovereignty was not to be religious but secular, and tolerance would become civil liberty. A Cultural History of Tolerance shows how political power and religious doctrine together shaped both persecution and emerging ideas of tolerance, laying the groundwork for later debates.This book is intended for professors, academic researchers, students, and general readers interested in early modern Europe, political ideas, and the history of religion.

Kow, Simon, China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 184 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <755-621>
ISBN 978-1-041-06434-3 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

China in Later Enlightenment Political Thought examines the ideas of China in the works of mid- to late-eighteenth century European Enlightenment political thinkers.Like its predecessor volume, China in Early Enlightenment Political Thought, this book is distinctive in providing in-depth comparative analyses of works by seminal late Enlightenment thinkers that specifically link their views on China to their political concerns. It traces the shifts between metaphysical, naturalistic, economic, technological, cultural, idealist, and materialist accounts, and philosophical histories of Chinese politics, society, and culture. It argues that, unlike earlier thinkers, most of the later Enlightenment authors assessed in this book-including Christian Wolff, Voltaire, Francois Quesnay, Adam Smith, contributors to the Encylopedie, Abbe Raynal, Denis Diderot, and Johann Gottfried Herder-developed conceptions of history which increasingly depicted China as unprogressive and even stagnant. Even later Enlightenment enthusiasts of China such as Voltaire were deeply ambivalent about the lessons European societies could draw from China when viewed in relation to progressive visions of world history. The book also discusses the ways in which later Enlightenment theorists who were critical of aspects of European imperialism, especially Diderot and Herder, nevertheless regarded China as backwards and despotic and concludes with the influence of Enlightenment conceptions of China on the philosophies of G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx, as well as Mao Zedong's reappropriation of post-Enlightenment philosophy of history.This book will appeal to scholars and advanced students of Chinese history, Chinese philosophy, Chinese politics, and political philosophy more generally.

ホッブズとロールズの欧州統合論
Rolf, Jan Niklas, Hobbes and Rawls on European Integration: A Contractarian Perspective. (International Political Theory) 175 pp. 2025:10 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-9>
ISBN 978-3-031-96858-7 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book offers a contractarian reading of the European integration process that corroborates, complements and, on occasion, contests European integration theory. It argues that the social contract theories of Thomas Hobbes and John Rawls provide us with insufficiently exploited clues to the formation and justification of European supranational institutions and redistributive instruments. An advanced understanding of the normative foundations of European integration seems to be all the more important in times of multiple crises, differentiated integration and even disintegration - all accompanied and accelerated by the growth of Euroscepticism and anti-European parties.

パレートの社会・政治思想入門
Barbieri, Giovanni, An Introduction to Pareto's Social and Political Thought. 158 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-599>
ISBN 978-3-031-95411-5 hard ¥30,092.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book analyses Pareto's social and political thought a hundred years after his death, showing how the structure of the scholar's works is generally quite clear (contrary to what is commonly presumed), and how the maintenance of the social and political systems' equilibrium represents Pareto's main research focus . In particular, the aim of this book is to demonstrate how the author considers the 'right middle path' - in the social, economic, and political arenas - as the only way capable of ensuring social cohesion. The book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of sociology, sociological and political theory, and political science.

マキァヴェッリとグイッチャルディーニの貴族レジームの批判
Jurdjevic, Mark, The Many and the Few: Machiavelli and Guicciardini's Critique of Aristocratic Regimes. (Toronto Italian Studies) 277 pp. 2025:11 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <754-601>
ISBN 978-1-4875-6686-9 hard ¥18,139.- (税込) US$ 85.00

The Many and the Few reconstructs a pattern of recurring populist themes in the writings of Francesco Guicciardini and Niccolo Machiavelli. These two pioneering thinkers of the late Renaissance are almost always presented in terms of dramatic contrasts - while Machiavelli's violent populism and scorn for aristocratic culture is well established, many consider Guicciardini the most influential Renaissance advocate of narrow, elitist regimes. In The Many and the Few, Mark Jurdjevic challenges these pre-existing beliefs and argues that Guicciardini was a vastly more complex thinker who subjected his own aristocratic ideals to devastating scrutiny.From his very first to very last texts, Guicciardini consistently embedded an alternate narrative in which he thoroughly embraced, and arguably exceeded, Machiavelli's view of the innately positive qualities of the people and destructive qualities of the elites. Subsequent "republican" writers, such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau and James Madison, all claimed Guicciardini as one of the chief Renaissance exemplars of a longstanding tradition of aristocratic, senatorial politics, but The Many and the Few demonstrates that Guicciardini's contribution was a Trojan horse: it appeared to confirm this tradition even while affirming every aspect of Machiavelli's critique.

プラトンとアリストテレスにおける友愛の政治学
Sampson, Kristin / Wiese Twedt, Oda Elisabeth (eds.), Politics of Friendship in Plato and Aristotle. 208 pp. 2025:10 (Springer, GW) <754-16>
ISBN 978-3-031-94829-9 hard ¥21,314.- (税込) EUR 84.99

This anthology argues that ideas of friendship and its significance for the political in the ancient world is of relevance for contemporary thinking on the relationship between politics and friendship. It suggests a potential return to Ancient Greece, the birthplace of democracy, and more specifically the political thinking of Plato and Aristotle. This volume covers two quite opposite views on friendship and politics. Seen from one perspective friendship may pose a danger towards the political entity. Alternatively, it can be said to provide a necessary foundation for the political. While most treatments of the ancients on friendship are centered on the study of Aristotle, this volume offers a number of works on Plato. The contributions herein investigate the various ways these views are expressed within the thinking of Plato and Aristotle and their impact on contemporary discussions of the political. This book appeals to all students and scholars of Ancient Philosophy, particularly those interested in the political and social world of the ancient Greeks.

Bryar, Timothy, A Lacanian-Hegelian Perspective on Peace and Conflict Studies. (Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies) 92 pp. 2025:8 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <754-22>
ISBN 978-3-031-95749-9 hard ¥10,028.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book takes a ground-breaking approach to peace theory and practice at a time of multiplying global crises. It draws on the Lacanian-Hegelian dialectical materialism to rethink the way we think peace, conflict and violence as amongst multiple, overlapping crises including climate change, contemporary conflict, the threat of nuclear war, pandemics, the rise of far-right racism and growing class divisions. Such an approach may seem surprising. While Lacanian-Hegelian scholars have provided analyses of contemporary conflicts including Russia's war on Ukraine and Israel's war against Hamas, in doing so they have also made pointedly critiqued the theory and practice of peace. Rather than simply defend peace theory and practice, the book uses these critiques as the basis for rethinking peace and conflict. Therefore, the book occupies a unique position by being the first to apply Lacanian-Hegelian dialectical materialism to peace and conflict theory and practice broadlyIn doing so, it provides scholars, students and practitioners with new concepts and tools to rethink peace theory and practice - and to engage with politics in an age fraught with crises.

リベラリズムを超えたヘーゲル－政治的・経済的民主主義の弁証法
Ferro, Bernardo, Hegel Beyond Liberalism: The Dialectic of Political and Economic Democracy. 245 pp. 2025:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <753-32>
ISBN 978-1-009-58474-6 hard ¥27,692.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

Hegel's political philosophy has long been associated with some form of social or welfare liberalism. Bernardo Ferro challenges this interpretation and shows how Hegel's work harbours a more ambitious philosophical project, pointing to a different vision of modern society. Ferro argues that Hegel's account of the state should be read not as a complement to the concept of civil society, but as a direct challenge to its underlying logic. He then draws the political and economic conclusions implicit in this line of approach, arguing that the conscious pursuit of the common good which Hegel regards as essential to a rational state is not compatible with either a capitalist production system or a constitutional monarchy: a true dialectical synthesis of the particular interests of individuals and the general interests of society entails nothing less than a comprehensive democratization of the economic and the political spheres, and the need for this transformation holds the key to Hegel's enduring political relevance.

〔英訳〕太宰春台著　政治経済学に関する著作－『経済録』と『経済録拾遺』
Shundai, Dazai, Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy. Ed. & tr. by P. Flueckiger. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 300 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <753-243>
ISBN 978-1-316-51032-2 hard ¥14,575.- (税込) GB￡ 50.00
ISBN 978-1-316-64972-5 paper ¥6,118.- (税込) GB￡ 20.99

Dazai Shundai (1680-1747) is a critical figure in Japanese political thought, who developed his philosophy in response to a perceived crisis in the status of the ruling samurai class, of which he was a member. This volume introduces sections from his most significant work of political thought, Keizairoku (1729), and its addendum Keizairoku shui (1744). Extracts present Shundai's program of political and economic reform, as he grappled with the upheavals and opportunities accompanying the breakdown of feudal agrarianism and the emergence of a modern commercial economy. While Shundai accepted the inevitability of this economic transition, his vision of political economy remained conservative, with a focus on strengthening samurai-class supremacy. Peter Flueckiger offers a critical introduction to Shundai's ideas, exploring the nuances of his engagement with Confucian thought, and extensive annotations provide further textual and historical context. This volume thus demonstrates how Shundai's writings prefaced increasingly ambitious theories of state-managed economic growth in early modern and modern Japan.

Webel, Charles P., The Reality of This World. Volume Two: The Fate of This World and The Future of Humanity. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 206 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <753-18>
ISBN 978-1-032-20668-4 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

The Reality of this World analyzes one of the most influential concepts known to humanity-- "the world"-- focusing primarily on the material conditions of our existence. It is the companion to The World as Idea: A Conceptual History (Routledge, 2022). Together, the two volumes constitute "The Fate of This World and the Future of Humanity."In this book, Charles P. Webel examines the theories and policies that have constructed the world as it is. He proposes strategies for transforming it into a more equitable and sustainable habitat both for humans and for the other species with whom we co-exist on Earth. In doing so, he describes how the social and natural sciences, as well as philosophy and the humanities, have abetted our understanding of this world and explores why globalization and rationalization, as well as such "alternative realities" as digital and AI technologies, may simultaneously advance our collective well-being while also putting life on Earth at existential risk. In conclusion, Webel proposes political and other solutions to mitigate such risks.The Reality of this World will be of great interest to scholars in fields ranging from philosophy and intellectual history to political and social theory, as well as to students and a general public interested in understanding and transforming our world.

Cziganyik, Zsolt / Dimovska, Iva (eds.), Utopia and Democracy: Theories, Practices, Fictions. (Palgrave Studies in Utopianism) 244 pp. 2025:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <753-1032>
ISBN 978-3-031-89912-6 hard ¥32,600.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book provides a comprehensive review of the relationship between utopia and democracy, challenging the tendency in Western scholarship to assume that an ideal society is inherently democratic. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the book covers an extensive range of historical periods and genres, and places emphasis on an understudied issue in the field, namely the role of Eastern and Central Europe in the study of utopianism. The various chapters reflect on the frequently overlooked role utopian thought plays in the development of democratic political structures, despite the fact that the history of classical utopianism demonstrates a multitude of non-democratic patterns. With contributions from political theory, history, cultural and literary studies, the volume explores a range of contexts, demonstrating how utopias offer both a critique and an inspiration for the evolution of democratic societies.

地政学、国家、政治学－地政学の創設者R.チェレーンのコンテクスト化
Davidsen, Peter, Geopolitics, The State, and Political Science: Contextualizing Rudolf Kjellen, Founder of Geopolitics. (Routledge Geopolitics Series) 320 pp. 2025:11 (Routledge, UK) <753-1033>
ISBN 978-1-032-78863-0 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

Geopolitics, the State, and Political Science offers the first comprehensive intellectual history of Rudolf Kjellen (1864-1922), the founder of geopolitics who formulated a systematic organic theory of the state. Kjellen played a decisive role in shaping both the institutional emergence of political science and the conceptual evolution of international relations and political theory.Through extensive archival research and employing the contextualist methodology of the Cambridge school, this book discovers and rethinks the contexts in which Kjellen's work developed. It situates his theories within early twentieth-century academic debates over political science and its emancipation from law, history, and philosophy. The work demonstrates how the foundations of political science were forged through concrete academic disputes, methodological controversies, and institutional struggles, while reaffirming the enduring value of historical contextualization for understanding both the origins and contested legacies of the modern state.Much more than a biography, this study is an important contribution to the intellectual history of political theory, international relations, and the social sciences. It is of interest to historians, political scientists, geographers, political philosophers, and international lawyers.

Roudier, Jerome, Machiavel par lui-meme. 286 p. 2025:5 (PUF, FR) <753-1035>
ISBN 978-2-13-085883-6 paper ¥5,517.- (税込) EUR 22.00

Theodosiadis, Michail, Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism: Prometheus in Political Theory. (Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History) 296 pp. 2025:2 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <753-1037>
ISBN 978-1-3995-3729-2 hard ¥26,235.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Ancient Greek Democracy and American Republicanism explores the archetype of Prometheus in political theory, representing faith in human agency and self-governance. It borrows perspectives from Hannah Arendt and Christopher Lasch, tracing Promethean elements in the philosophy behind the ancient Athenian polis as well as in early American republican thought, which laid the foundations of the American Revolution and also of the Populist Movement during the nineteenth century. The second principle of Prometheanism revolves around a 'tragic vision' of life and human nature; Prometheanism questions optimistic ideologies advocating human perfection or endless improvement. Ancient Greek democracy and early American republicanism maintain a balanced - else called melioristic - approach to human agency and potential. They value the importance of action, without promising endless betterment and assured happiness. Finally, cultural heritage and identity are seen as crucial for participatory (Promethean) politics. With this in mind, the book criticises mainstream liberal trends and questions the ardent optimism and cultural nihilism of the republicanism of the French Revolution.

Rathnam, Lincoln, The Practice of Skepticism: Montaigne and Zuangzi on Freedom, Coexistence, and the Limits of Government. (Studies in Comparative Political Theory) 312 pp. 2026:2 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <752-599>
ISBN 978-0-19-760753-4 hard ¥21,126.- (税込) US$ 99.00

規範的なものと政治的なもの－ケルゼン、シュミット、モーゲンソー、将来の国際秩序
Sosnowski, Leon, The Normative and the Political: Kelsen, Schmitt, Morgenthau, and the Future International Order. (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) 216 pp. 2025:10 (Routledge, UK) <752-600>
ISBN 978-1-041-07905-7 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00

In recent years, much has been written about the interaction between international law and the political. Yet, the field of International Relations has paid limited attention to how centering the interpretation of the 'international' on each of these favors radically different orders.With this book, Leon Sosnowski effectively demonstrates the plausibility of a foreign policy recognizing the primacy of International Law. He does so by synthesizing Hans Kelsen's legal cosmopolitanism and elements of Hans J. Morgenthau's classical realism into a new theoretical framework - Normative Effectivism. He argues that it is an international political theory to challenge the current sovereigntist wave, contributing to a sustainable international order. He illustrates his arguments with a novel reading of Kelsen and Morgenthau's opposition to Carl Schmitt's worldview. His analysis shows that the post-WWII international system is at a critical crossroads, evidenced by Russia's post-Cold War foreign policy and the international response.Securing an important place the subfield of International Political Theory, The Normative and The Political will be equally useful to scholars in International Relations, Ethics, and International Law.

Williams, David, Liberalism in Time: A History. (McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas) 216 pp. 2025:10 (McGill-Queen's U. Pr., CN) <752-602>
ISBN 978-0-228-02626-6 hard ¥23,474.- (税込) US$ 110.00

We are living through a crisis that casts doubt on the idea of progress, the defining trope of liberalism. The concept of progress as the achievement of liberalism developed over time, in relation to changing ideas about time. Understanding skepticism about progress requires us to ask questions about the relationship between liberalism, time, and history.Drawing on a range of thinkers from John Locke to John Rawls, Liberalism in Time links the history of liberal thought with wider changes in theology, geology, archaeology, and biology. David Williams explores the diverse ways in which liberal thinkers have understood the relationship between liberalism and time, demonstrating that liberal patterns of thought are characterized by temporal paradoxes. Liberal thinkers ostensibly understand liberalism as situated within time and history, but they treat it as timeless when it is convenient.Reflecting on whether and how liberal thinking about time and history is suitable for the challenges liberalism now faces, Liberalism in Time shows how temporal paradoxes have characterized liberal patterns of thought throughout history.

Walsh, David, The Invisible Source of Authority: God in a Secular Age. (The Beginning and the Beyond of Politics) 188 pp. 2025:7 (U. Notre Dame Pr., US) <752-24>
ISBN 978-0-268-20957-5 paper ¥8,109.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

The Invisible Source of Authority is a philosophical meditation on the secular age and challenges the notion that the secular can be understood without reference to God. How does one reject God while denying belief? This is the central paradox of our secular age, where efforts to erase God only affirm his presence. In The Invisible Source of Authority, David Walsh examines this paradox and argues that a secular world actually reveals God more clearly, rather than bringing about what has been called the death of God. Unlike many critics of modernity, Walsh argues that secularism is not inhospitable to authentic religious faith and cannot be understood without reference to God. Drawing on the writings of early modern thinkers like Montaigne, Descartes, and Grotius, Walsh asserts that God's absence from the secular world is testimony to God's transcendence. Because the secular is always that which has withdrawn from serving God, Walsh suggests that this presupposition proves that God remains indispensable to the self-understanding of secular society. The Invisible Source of Authority seeks to remind us that, despite his seeming absence, the transcendent God remains an essential presence.

ルソーと近代の政治学
Beyssade, Jean-Marie, Rousseau et la politique des modernes. (Bibliotheque d'histoire de la philosophie) 280 p. 2025:4 (Vrin, FR) <751-9>
ISBN 978-2-7116-3169-8 paper ¥7,273.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Cole, Matthew Benjamin, Fear the Future: Dystopia and Political Imagination in the Twentieth Century. 304 pp. 2025:8 (U. Michigan Pr., US) <751-656>
ISBN 978-0-472-07774-8 hard ¥24,541.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-472-05774-0 paper ¥7,458.- (税込) US$ 34.95 *

After centuries of contemplating utopias, late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century writers began to warn of dystopian futures. Yet these fears extended beyond the canonical texts of dystopian fiction into postwar discourses on totalitarianism, mass society, and technology, as well as subsequent political theories of freedom and domination. Fear the Future demonstrates the centrality of dystopian thinking to twentieth century political thought, showing the pervasiveness of dystopian images, themes, and anxieties. Offering a novel reading of major themes and thinkers, Fear the Future explores visions of the future from literary figures such as Yevgeny Zamyatin, Aldous Huxley, and George Orwell; political theorists such as Max Weber, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Juergen Habermas, and Michel Foucault; and mid-century social scientists such as Erich Fromm, Max Horkheimer, Theodor Adorno, David Reisman, C. Wright Mills, and Jacques Ellul. It offers a comparative analysis of distinct intellectual and literary traditions, including modern utopianism and anti-utopianism, midcentury social science, Frankfurt School critical theory, and continental political philosophy. With detailed case studies of key thinkers from the Enlightenment to the late twentieth century, the book synthesizes secondary literature and research from a range of disciplinary areas, including in political theory, intellectual history, literary studies, and utopian studies. This wide-ranging reconstruction shows that while dystopian thinking has illustrated the dangers of domination and dehumanization, it has also illuminated new possibilities for freedom.

Labreure, David / Petit, Annie (dir.), Socialismes, utopies & positivismes. (Positivismes & Cie / Glassine) 270 p. 2025:4 (Hermann, FR) <751-659>
ISBN 979-10-370-4337-5 paper ¥7,022.- (税込) EUR 28.00

シュミットの主権と例外状態論－シュミットの『政治神学』注釈
Adair-Toteff, Christopher, Schmitt on Sovereignty and the State of Exception: A Commentary on Carl Schmitt's 'Politische Theologie'. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism / Palgrave Pivot) 99 pp. 2025:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <751-421>
ISBN 978-3-031-91727-1 hard ¥10,028.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This Palgrave Pivot offers a balanced and impartial commentary on one of the most important of the early writings by the German legal scholar Carl Schmitt. The book is known mostly by its title Politische Theologie but Schmitt's subtitle indicated that his book was on more than political theology, but was focused on conceptions of sovereignty, authority, and the 'state of exception'. The author shows how the Politische Theologie published in 1922 clearly formulated Schmitt's thinking regarding decisionism, dictatorship, and sovereignty, and how these notions intertwined to propose a governmental model opposed to parliamentary democracy. The book illuminates Carl Schmitt's role in theorising the 'state of exception' as he engaged in debates with those who contended that democratic principles were crucial. Schmitt insisted there needs to be a sovereign individual whose authority provides an immediate decision to the 'state of exception.' This book will be of interest to scholars of legal and political philosophy, as well as those interested broadly in ideas of classical liberalism, wartime political economy, authoritarianism and socio-economic influences on legal thinking.

R.フォイクト編　危機の兆候におけるリヴァイアサン　第2版
Voigt, Ruediger (Hrsg.), Der Leviathan: Der Leviathan im Zeichen der Krise. 2., vollstaendig ueberarb. Aufl. (Staatsverstaendnisse 1) 313 S. 2025:1 (Nomos, GW) <751-15>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0640-3 paper ¥19,813.- (税込) EUR 79.00

?Der Staat ist tot ? es lebe der Staat“. Mit diesen auf die Kontinuitaet von Monarchien gemuenzten Worten laesst sich der Gegenstand der Staatsdiskussion treffend beschreiben. Der bereits totgesagte ?Leviathan“ erweist sich als erstaunlich lebendig. Zwar kann heute in den liberalen Demokratien des Westens von einem starken Staat kaum die Rede sein. Eines steht jedoch fest: Zur Aufrechterhaltung des inneren Friedens ist ein Kernbestand staatlicher Ordnungsmacht unverzichtbar. Dies ist das grosse Thema von Thomas Hobbes (1588 ? 1679) und seinem Leviathan aus dem Jahre 1651. Es lohnt sich also, sich mit dem englischen Staatsdenker Hobbes und seinem umfangreichen Werk zu beschaeftigen. In zwoelf Beitraegen wird gezeigt, dass Hobbes‘ Gedanken auch am Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts nichts von ihrer Anziehungskraft verloren haben. Der oft genug bereits totgesagte Leviathan ist so lebendig, aber auch so kontrovers wie bei seiner Geburt. Der vorliegende Band ist die ueberarbeitete und durch neue Beitraege ergaenzte Neuauflage des Buches ?Der Leviathan“, dessen Vorauflage 2000 bei Nomos erschienen ist. Mit Beitraegen von Armin Adam, Andreas Anter, Olaf Asbach, Horst Bredekamp, Norbert Campagna, Dieter Huening, Wolfgang Kersting, Hermann Klenner, Bernd Ludwig, Henning Ottmann, Peter Schroeder und Ruediger Voigt.

Jones, Meirav, England's Israel and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought. (Jewish Culture and Contexts) 248 pp. 2025:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <751-169>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2780-4 hard ¥13,860.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *

The foundations of modern political thought, presumed secular, were laid in conversation with theologically motivated politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideas Mid-seventeenth-century England was a hotbed in which crucial ideas of modern politics were conceived: Thomas Hobbes presented his social contract; John Selden wrote major treatises which were foundational for modern natural and international law; and England participated in the wave of republicanism that swept over Europe. This was also the period of the English Civil War-which has been portrayed as a "war of religion" and a "revolution of saints"-and was characterized by religious ends and motivations guiding politics and politicians. In England's Israel and the Foundations of Modern Political Thought, Meirav Jones proposes that the foundational political theory conceived in this period was significantly related to the theological politics of the time. Through an examination of the language and imagery shared by theorists and saints, Jones finds that, in the twenty-year period between 1640 and1660, when Hobbes, Selden, and their contemporaries published, over 40 percent of all texts published in England contained one or more of the terms "Hebrew," "Israel," "Jerusalem," "Zion," or "Jew." Further, all known works of political theory from the period employed these terms. While preachers in English parliament addressed and understood England as "Israel," foundational theorists of the modern state employed ancient Israel as a political model and explicitly preferred Hebrew over Greek wisdom. Modern politics did not develop solely from within a conversation among elites, neither was it conceived as a Godless enterprise, even by its most renowned secular architects. Instead, as the book demonstrates, it spoke the language of religiously motivated politics and was conceived in its terms. Ultimately, Jones argues that it was through a sweeping revival of Hebrew in early modern Europe that the foundations of modern politics were laid in conversation with theological politics and in negotiation with Jewish ideas and ideas of the Jews.

カント以降の政治思想－政治理論と国際関係からの視点
Becker, Manuel / Ohnesorge, H. W. / Gerlach, T. (Hrsg.), Politisches Denken nach Kant: Perspektiven aus der Politischen Theorie und den Internationalen Beziehungen. (Internationale Politische Theorie 10) 300 S. 2025:6 (Nomos, GW) <751-30>
ISBN 978-3-7560-1743-0 paper ¥19,813.- (税込) EUR 79.00

Dieser Sammelband ist Immanuel Kant als genuin politischem Denker gewidmet. Ausgehend von der Beobachtung, dass Kants theoretischer und praktischer Philosophie immer noch deutlich mehr Aufmerksamkeit als seiner politischen Philosophie zukommt, moechte der Band einige Schlaglichter auf Kants politisches Werk und Wirken werfen. In den Beitraegen des Bandes wird ausgehend von zentralen Schluesselideen und -begriffen der Kantischen politischen Theorie und Philosophie die Aktualitaet und Relevanz dieser Ideen und Konzepte diskutiert. Mit Beitraegen von Manuel Becker Martin Brecher Naren Chitty Samantha Fazekas Marie Goebel Peggy Hetmank-Breitenstein Oliver Hidalgo Tamara Jugov Hendrik W. Ohnesorge John M. Owen Rasmus Wittekind Martin Rupps Doris Sommer Susanne Teschner Milla Vaha Chenjun Wang

ビュルラマキによる社会契約と政治的主権
Coujou, Jean-Paul, Pacte social et souverainete politique chez Burlamaqui. (Constitution de la modernite) 251 p. 2025:4 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <751-10>
ISBN 978-2-406-18324-2 hard ¥19,813.- (税込) EUR 79.00
ISBN 978-2-406-18323-5 paper ¥8,025.- (税込) EUR 32.00

Bromell, Nick, Frederick Douglass: The Philosophical Writings. (Oxford New Histories of Philosophy) 288 pp. 2025:10 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <750-27>
ISBN 978-0-19-774647-9 hard ¥21,126.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-774648-6 paper ¥5,324.- (税込) US$ 24.95

Frederick Douglass' fame as an activist and abolitionist often eclipses his less appreciated work as a political philosopher. Indeed, few people know that he declared in an 1867 speech: "From this little bit of experience, slave experience, I have elaborated quite a lengthy chapter of political philosophy, applicable to the American people." However, Douglass did not develop this philosophy systematically. Instead, he expressed it in myriad moments and fragments throughout his writings, and for this reason it is often overlooked, even by scholars of philosophy. The philosophy Douglass drew from his experience of enslavement and anti-Black racism is as relevant today as it was in his lifetime. More than any other abolitionist and Black activist of his day, Douglass saw that the slavery system was both the cause and the consequence of virulent anti-Black racism. Seeking to understand and repudiate not just racism, but also sexism and nativism, he developed a powerful theory of human nature, human powers, and human dignity that he subsequently wove into a profound theory of democracy and democratic citizenship. This collection, carefully curated by editor Nick Bromell, makes Douglass's philosophical ideas available and compelling to a new generation of readers.

主権に対する法的・政治的思考－欧州思想史
Canihac, Hugo, Legal and Political Thinking Against Sovereignty: A European Intellectual History. (Law and Politics) 268 pp. 2025:9 (Routledge, UK) <750-412>
ISBN 978-1-032-69823-6 hard ¥37,895.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00 *

At the intersection of the history of constitutional ideas and of political theory, this book offers a new genealogy of the constitutional thought of the European Union. Centrally, the book traces the emergence and transformation of the 'post-sovereign thesis' - an argument that seeks to move beyond the routine opposition between states and European organization, by claiming the concept of sovereignty to be obsolete - and its complicated relationship with liberalism. Analyzing the thought of a series of constitutional thinkers who have developed different versions of this thesis in relation to European integration, the book shows that, far from being new, as is generally assumed, the post-sovereign thesis goes back to the late nineteenth century. Exploring the interplay of these thinkers' critical conceptualizations of sovereignty and of their views on liberalism, the book argues that, although they shared a concern for the transformation of a world seen as increasingly interdependent, they imagined deeply different versions of post-sovereignty. Bringing this history into focus, the book offers a rich new perspective on contemporary debates about the EU and the possibilities of global constitutionalism. This book will appeal to scholars and students working in the fields of EU and constitutional law, legal history and the history of political thought, as well as others with relevant interests working in political science.

H.アーレント批判的全集　第5巻：全体主義の起源
Arendt, Hannah, The Origins of Totalitarianism / Elemente und Urspruenge totaler Herrschaft. 3 Bde. Hrsg. von A. Vowinckel u. a. (Hannah Arendt: Kritische Gesamtausgabe. Druck und Digital / Complete Works. Critical Edition. Print and Digital 5) 3000 S. 2025:12 (Wallstein Vlg., GW) <749-32>
ISBN 978-3-8353-5910-9 hard ¥32,102.- (税込) EUR 128.00

Hannah Arendts Totalitarismustheorie ist einer der wichtigsten Beitraege zur politischen Theorie und Historiografie. Ein Buch von verstoerender Aktualitaet. In diesem Buch, das in drei Teilen die Themen Antisemitismus, Imperialismus und Totalitarismus behandelt, untersucht Arendt die historischen Entwicklungen, die die Errichtung und Funktionsweisen totalitaerer politischer Systeme im nationalsozialistischen Deutschland und in der Sowjetunion unter Stalin ermoeglichten. Das Buch wurde innerhalb kuerzester Zeit zum Standardwerk der noch jungen Totalitarismusforschung. Es erschien 1951 zunaechst in englischer Sprache, 1955 folgte eine von Arendt selbst erstellte deutsche Fassung. 1958 ersetzte Arendt in einer englischsprachigen Neuauflage die ≫Concluding Remarks≪ durch ein neues Kapitel mit dem Titel ≫Ideology and Terror≪ und fuegte einen Epilog ueber die Ungarische Revolution von 1956 hinzu. Band 5 der Kritischen Gesamtausgabe versammelt und kommentiert die Buchfassungen letzter Hand, teilweise ergaenzt durch fruehere Fassungen, sowie alle Aufsaetze, Rezensionen, Vortragstexte, Exposes und Typoskripte aus dem Nachlass, die in engem Zusammenhang mit dem Werk stehen. Diese Ausgabe ermoeglicht es endlich, Arendts Hauptwerk in seiner Genese zu verstehen, im Kontext ihrer Schriften aus den 1930er bis 1950er Jahren zu verorten und historisch neu zu bewerten.

ルソーから自由民主主義までの世論と国民主権
Ghins, Arthur, The People's Two Powers: Public Opinion and Popular Sovereignty from Rousseau to Liberal Democracy. (Ideas in Context) 320 pp. 2026:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <749-13>
ISBN 978-1-009-68882-6 hard ¥26,235.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

The People's Two Powers revisits the emergence of democracy during the French Revolution and examines how French liberalism evolved in response. By focusing on two concepts often studied separately-public opinion and popular sovereignty-Arthur Ghins uncovers a significant historical shift in the understanding of democracy. Initially tied to the direct exercise of popular sovereignty by Rousseau, Condorcet, the Montagnards, and Bonapartist theorists, democracy was first rejected, then associated with the idea of rule by public opinion by liberals throughout the nineteenth century. This redefinition culminated in the invention of the term 'liberal democracy' in France in the 1860s. Originally conceived in opposition to 'Caesarism' during the Second Empire, the term has an ongoing and important legacy, and was later redeployed by French liberals against shifting adversaries - 'totalitarianism' from the 1930s onward, and 'populism' since the 1980s.

D. Boeri, Marcelo / De Brasi, Leandro, Epistemic Life in the Polis: Ancient Insights into Contemporary Issues. 184 pp. 2025:7 (Springer, GW) <749-14>
ISBN 978-3-031-90858-3 hard ¥35,108.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book shows the interesting connections within political epistemology that can be established between ancient approaches and contemporary ones. It stems from the conviction that ancient thought can be brought into discussion with contemporary views. Although the book is not intended as an exegetical work, the authors offer detailed interpretations of ancient philosophers while taking into consideration recent specialized discussions in the scholarship with a focus mainly on the systematic aspects of those philosophers rather than on the historical ones. By exploiting insights of Ancient Greek philosophers, and providing an examination of certain intellectual attitudes and virtues that have both an ethical-political and epistemic dimension, the reader will better understand contemporary issues within political epistemology.

Droin, Nathalie / de Thy, Ludovic (dir.), Decentralisation et Republique dans la pensee juridique et politique de la troisieme Republique. (Rencontres 661) 293 p. 2025 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <748-400>
ISBN 978-2-406-18081-4 hard ¥19,060.- (税込) EUR 76.00
ISBN 978-2-406-18080-7 paper ¥7,022.- (税込) EUR 28.00 *

パレートのエリートの権力及び社会の二極化論を再読する
Marshall, Alasdair J., Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation: A Critical Perspective on Metapolitics and Democracy. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 360 pp. 2025:8 (Routledge, UK) <748-540>
ISBN 978-1-041-06446-6 hard ¥39,352.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Assessing Vilfredo Pareto's sociological reworkings of Machiavelli's Fox and Lion animal spirits as friend-enemy codings, this book offers a unique insight into the growing division today between relatively liberal elites and relatively conservative non-elites.Re-Reading Pareto on Elite Power and Societal Bipolarisation utilises key ideas common to Pareto's elite theory, general sociology and theory of demagogic plutocracy, and fleshes out a unique perspective for making sense of contemporary societal bipolarisation in terms of friend-enemy codings. The first part of the book explores what Pareto's core ideas are and outlines why they matter today. The second part considers how we might elaborate and apply Pareto's concept of 'open elites' to reverse contemporary societal bipolarisation and build safer and more mature democracies. The third part explains how we can apply Pareto to predict further deterioration towards fundamental social conflict - such that Pareto's sociological imagination becomes risk imagination we desperately need today.For academics and students across the domains of sociology, political science and social science in general, the book warns of widespread elite-institutional bias in their research and points to Pareto's neutral and balanced approach as a corrective - offering a uniquely Paretian view of minimal criteria for democracy, as well as a uniquely balanced analytical perspective for making sense of our 'culture war'.

Nold, Patrick (ed.), Dondinus Papiensis OP: Dyalogus de potentia summi pontificis: A Dialogue on the Power of the Supreme Pontiff. (Oxford Medieval Texts) 448 pp. 2025:8 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <748-541>
ISBN 978-0-19-284478-1 hard ¥51,304.- (税込) GB￡ 176.00

This volume presents the first edition and translation of the Dyalogus de potentia summi pontifices, a little known, fragmentary work of fourteenth-century political theory by the Dominican Dondinus of Pavia. Dedicated to the Avignon Pope John XXII (1316-1334), it provides theological, philosophical, and historical justifications for the spiritual and temporal supremacy of the papacy asserted by Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam of 1302. The dialogue unfolds in a dream vision in which an apologist for papal power and a sceptic argue before a judge. While the text at points characterizes opponents of papal power as heretics and even seems to counsel violence against them, the sceptic in the dialogue is nonetheless characterized as sympathetic, reasonable, and open to persuasion. An extensive introduction by the editor relates the Dyalogus to relevant landmarks of intellectual history of the early fourteenth century (such as John XXII's constitution Si fratrum on the vacant Empire and the subsequent pamphlet war with the imperial claimant Ludwig of Bavaria, or the curial trial of secular university master John of Pouilly over his critique of papally-granted pastoral privileges for mendicant friars). The introduction also provides a precise political context for understanding the work through a reconstruction of the career of the author's patron, Cardinal Luke Fieschi of Genoa, and through a consideration of John XXII's pro-Angevin strategy of pacification, inquisition, and crusade against Ghibelline lords of Northern Italy like the Visconti of Milan. An apparatus fontium points out parallels in contemporary authors such as John of Paris, Giles of Rome, James of Viterbo, Dante, Ptolemy of Lucca, and Marsilius of Padua. This editorial work ultimately reveals how Dondinus of Pavia used prior papal apologia to construct a dialogue that was most likely intended as a didactic tool of political catechesis for a lay audience.

マキァヴェッリにおける国家
Stacey, Peter, The State in Machiavelli. (Ideas in Context) 500 pp. 2025:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <748-542>
ISBN 978-1-009-63032-0 hard ¥36,437.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00

While historical scholarship has often downplayed the importance of Machiavelli's theory of the state, this study reconstructs the question of lo stato as the conceptual crux of his political philosophy. Peter Stacey offers a detailed reconstruction of the historical context from which Machiavelli's theory emerges, demonstrating how the intellectual and ideological contours of Machiavelli's thinking, as well as much of its content, were decisively shaped by conceptual apparatuses drawn from the Roman philosophical, rhetorical and aesthetic discourse. Stacey further provides a sustained analysis of the development of Machiavelli's picture of the state from his earliest writings onwards, underlining the extent to which the Florentine draws deeply upon several key aspects of this intellectual inheritance in hitherto unacknowledged ways, while calling into question some of its cherished assumptions about the character of collective political entities. As Machiavelli's thinking unfolds across The Prince and the Discourses, Stacey illustrates how a strikingly novel conception of the body politic marks him out as the author of a distinctively new philosophy of the state.

Anhalt, Emily Katz, Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times: Why Humanity Needs Herodotus, the Man Who Invented History. 408 pp. 2025:10 (Yale U. Pr., US) <748-19>
ISBN 978-0-300-27287-1 hard ¥6,402.- (税込) US$ 30.00

How the wisdom of Herodotus can fortify us against political falsehoods and violent extremism Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek writer Herodotus introduced the concept of objective truth derived from factual investigation and empirical deduction. Writing just before the start of the catastrophic Peloponnesian War (431-404 BCE), Herodotus addressed an increasingly polarized Greek world. His Histories demonstrates that the capacity for humane moral action depends on the ability to resist unthinking allegiance to authoritative fictions. Herodotus offers an indispensable, nonpartisan approach for countering poisonous ideologies and violent conflict emanating from all extremes of the political kaleidoscope. Interpreting some of Herodotus's most compelling stories, Emily Katz Anhalt illuminates this ancient writer's vital insights concerning sexual violence, deception, foreign ways, political equality, and more. The Histories urges us to value reality, restrain destructive passions, and acknowledge the essential humanity of every human being-crucial guidance for navigating our own divisive and volatile political climate. By inviting us to take responsibility for our own choices and their consequences, Herodotus exposes autocratic leadership and abuses of power as self-defeating. Herodotus guides readers in assembling and assessing information, distinguishing fact from fiction, and making compassionate moral evaluations. The ancient Greeks never achieved an egalitarian, just society. Herodotus equips us to do better.

マキァヴェッリの影響と政治学の誕生
Almasi, Gabor, Science Meets Politics: Machiavelli's Influence and the Birth of Political Science. (History of European Political and Constitutional Thought 15) 460 pp. 2025:6 (Brill, NE) <747-800>
ISBN 978-90-04-73693-1 hard ¥37,620.- (税込) EUR 150.00

Machiavelli's early influence was more penetrating than has ever been believed, and this book explains why. The surprising answer leads the reader into the depths of the history of science, connecting Machiavelli's thought to new ways of thinking about experience, history, nature, and politics. This book argues that Machiavelli's works resonated with readers not merely because of the political and moral questions they raised and answered, but equally because of the ways in which Machiavelli engaged with these questions. His method reinforced the readers' own belief in the importance of an inductive and comparative approach, which relied on facts and numbers drawn from history and experience. An impressive book that, for a change, measures Machiavelli's writings not against 21st-century binary schemes, but rather against the knowledge categories and strategies of his 16th-century contemporaries and successors. Navigating skillfully among texts and authors both well-known and recondite, the author shows how the Florentine's ideas prompted and shaped a revolution in Western thought. William J Connell, Professor of History, Seton Hall University If you have ever wondered why Francis Bacon frequently quoted and lavished praise on Niccolo Machiavelli, this is the book for you. In it, Gabor Almasi situates the latter with regard to the science of his time and shows that he was read initially in Italy, then in France, and finally in England as the exponent of an empiricism - divorced from theology, metaphysics, and morals - as pertinent to the study of the natural world as it is to the study of politics. Paul A. Rahe, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage, Hillsdale College

James, Leslie, The Moving Word: How the West African and Caribbean Press Shaped Black Political Thought, 1935-1960. 336 pp. 2026:1 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <747-802>
ISBN 978-0-674-27941-4 hard ¥10,659.- (税込) US$ 49.95

A revelatory account of Black Atlantic political thought in the era of decolonization, revealing how West African and Caribbean newspapers invigorated debates about imperialism, capitalism, and Black freedom.In the 1930s and 1940s, amid intensifying anticolonial activism across the British Empire, dozens of new West African and Caribbean newspapers printed their first issues. With small staffs and shoestring budgets, these newspapers nonetheless became powerful vehicles for the expression of Black political thought. Drawing on papers from Trinidad, Jamaica, Ghana, and Nigeria, Leslie James shows how the press on both sides of the Atlantic nourished anticolonial and antiracist movements. Editors with varying levels of education, men and women journalists, worker and peasant correspondents, and anonymous contributors voiced incisive critiques of empire and experimented with visions of Black freedom. But as independence loomed, the press transformed to better demonstrate the respectability expected of a self-governing people.Seeing themselves as "the Fourth and Only Estate," the sole democratic institution available to a colonized population, early press contributors experimented with the form and function of the newspaper itself. They advanced anticolonial goals through clipping and reprinting articles from a variety of sources; drawing on local ways of speaking; and manipulating photography, comics, and advertising. Such unruly content, James shows, served as a strategic assertion of autonomy against colonial bureaucracy. Yet in the 1950s, this landscape changed as press professionalism became a proxy for a colony's capacity to govern itself. Influenced by new political paradigms, papers either standardized their formats or stopped publishing altogether. By the 1960s, intellectual debates about racism and colonialism had moved to other kinds of publications.Illuminating an extraordinary period in the history of Black Atlantic political thought, The Moving Word vividly portrays the power of experimental media.

J.P.マコーミック著　マキァヴェッリ、リーダーシップ、自由
McCormick, John P., The People's Princes: Machiavelli, Leadership, and Liberty. 304 pp. 2025:8 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <747-804>
ISBN 978-0-226-84235-6 hard ¥24,541.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-84237-0 paper ¥6,935.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

A new window into Machiavelli's idea of virtuous leadership and the appropriate relationship among leaders, common citizens, and elites. For more than a decade, John P. McCormick has been at the forefront of a new wave of scholarship that reveals the anti-elitist and democratic commitments at the center of Niccolo Machiavelli's political thought. In The People's Princes, McCormick turns his attention to Machiavelli's conception of virtuous leadership and Machiavelli's views on the appropriate relationships among individual leaders, common citizens, and elites. While most people think of Machiavelli as a cynical advisor of tyrants-a man who counseled leaders to aggrandize themselves, by any means necessary, at the expense of their subjects and citizens-The People's Princes fundamentally challenges this understanding. Drawing from Machiavelli's major political works a normative standard for leadership that emphasizes the mutually reinforcing relationship of civic leadership and popular government, McCormick delineates Machiavelli's method of "political exemplarity" by analyzing in detail the Florentine's case studies of leaders and their interactions with populaces throughout ancient and modern history. McCormick argues that Machiavelli suggests that civic leaders should enhance their reputations by providing for their own eventual obsolescence; specifically, they should establish institutional means through which common citizens rule themselves more directly and substantively. The People's Princes invites readers to consider Machiavelli anew, and also reflect on insights that remain relevant in the twenty-first century amidst growing concerns that political leaders are not accountable or responsive to popular majorities.

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 ¥24,541.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-84132-8 paper ¥7,469.- (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.

I.ホント他編　プーフェンドルフからマルクスまでの政治経済学の歴史
Hont, Istvan / Andersen, Lasse S. (ed.), Culture, Needs and Property Rights: A History of Political Economy from Pufendorf to Marx. 302 pp. 2025:10 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <747-108>
ISBN 978-1-009-59758-6 hard ¥26,235.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-009-59755-5 paper ¥8,162.- (税込) GB￡ 28.00

Istvan Hont (1947-2013) defected from Communist Hungary in the 1970s and became renowned globally as a scholarly visionary in European political ideas. Following his death, a wealth of unpublished material from an early project rewriting the history of liberty, politics and political economy from Samuel Pufendorf to Karl Marx was discovered. This book brings together seven of Hont's previously unpublished papers, providing a revolutionary intellectual history of the Marxian notion of communism and revealing its origin in seventeenth-century natural jurisprudence. Hont aspired to integrate the history and theory of politics and economics, to infuse present-day concerns with a knowledge of past events and theoretical responses. The essays selected for this volume realise Hont's historical imagination, range and intellectual ambition, exploring his belief that Marxism ought to be abandoned and explaining how to do it.

Watkin, Christopher, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity: Tracing the Roots of Colonialism, Secularity, and Ecology. 379 pp. 2025:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <746-41>
ISBN 978-1-009-67046-3 hard ¥30,607.- (税込) GB￡ 105.00

The state of nature is a powerful idea at the heart of the fragmented and sometimes conflicting stories the modern West tells about itself. It also makes sense of foundational Western commitments to equality and accumulation, freedom and property, universality and the individual. By exploring the social and cultural imaginaries that emerge from the distinct and often contradictory accounts of the state of nature in the writing of Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau, The State of Nature and the Shaping of Modernity offers a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing debates of our time, showing how the state of nature idea provides a powerful lens through which to focus the complex forces shaping today's political and cultural landscape. It also explores how ideas about human nature and origins drive today's debates about colonialism, secularism, and the environment, and how they can shed new light on some of society's most heated debates.

王政復古期イングランドにおける経済学、政治学、繁栄－W.テンプルの著作の思想史
Haavisto, Juha, Economics, Politics and Prosperity in Restoration England: An Intellectual History of the Works of Sir William Temple. (Perspectives in Economic and Social History) 218 pp. 2025:7 (Routledge, UK) <746-170>
ISBN 978-1-032-75845-9 hard ¥42,267.- (税込) GB￡ 145.00 *

Drawing on key published works, as well as those of his contemporaries, this book explores the political and economic thought of the seventeenth-century diplomat William Temple and his proposals for change in Restoration England and Ireland.Adopting a revisionist approach, the book explores Temple's efforts to balance and advance English society during a period of shifting power between England, the Netherlands and France. Engaging with themes including mercantilism, state building and environmental determinism, Temple connected the ideas of antiquity to those of contemporaries while influencing subsequent intellectual currents. As the book shows, Temple viewed humans as curious and greedy creatures, who would stop at nothing unless their motivations and passions could be subdued or diverted. This belief had immediate practical political and economic consequences in Temple's work: the survival and stability of the polity had to be secured, but he also advocated toleration so that members of society were afforded space to follow their motivations. Furthermore, this led Temple to argue that prosperity could be achieved not only by managing human nature but through practical action as well. He advocated for direct investment in Ireland to boost its commercial prospects, albeit for the benefit of the English crown, in a way that foreshadows current thinking on economic development.This book will be of interest to readers in the history of economic and political thought, environmental history, intellectual history and early modern history more broadly.

Baljer, Timo, Gemeinsam auf Verlorenem Posten?: Zu Interpretation und Vergleich von Ernst Juengers 'Der Waldgang' und Carl Schmitts 'Theorie des Partisanen'. (Epistemata Philosophie 635) 240 S. 2025:3 (Koenigshausen & Neumann, GW) <745-603>
ISBN 978-3-8260-9105-6 paper ¥11,035.- (税込) EUR 44.00 *

Bereits der umfangreiche Briefwechsel belegt die persoenliche und intellektuelle Intensitaet der Beziehung zwischen Carl Schmitt und Ernst Juenger. Waehrend die biographischen Zusammenhaenge mittlerweile mehrfach durchleuchtet wurden, bleiben Studien zum Werkvergleich rar gesaet, obgleich beide Autoren verschiedentlich selbst Bezuege herstellen. Gemeinsam auf Verlorenem Posten? leistet mit Interpretation und Vergleich der je fuer sich genommen einflussreichen Schriften Der Waldgang von Juenger und Schmitts Theorie des Partisanen einen Beitrag zur Schliessung dieser Luecke. In der Analyse werden Juenger und Schmitt als Meister des verdeckenden Schreibens herausgestellt, die in Reaktion auf die historische bzw. geschichtliche Lage der nihilistischen Herausforderung das unternehmen, was sie nur zu betrachten vorgeben: den Waldgang bzw. das partisanische Agieren als radikale, einsame Opposition gegen das herrschende System. Ungeachtet dieser parallelen Grundhaltung besteht zwischen Waldgaenger und Partisan eine latente Feindschaft: Hier der Rueckkehrer zur Geschichte, dort ihr Aufhalter ? dieser der erleuchtete Parteigaenger der Freiheit, jener der unwissende Diener der Offenbarung. Sie stehen auf entgegengesetzten Verlorenem Posten.

連邦主義の理論－思想史研究
Krause, Skadi Siiri (Hrsg.), Theorien des Foederalismus: Beitraege zu einer Ideengeschichte. (Staatsverstaendnisse 183) 458 S. 2025:2 (Nomos, GW) <745-604>
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Die empirische und vergleichende Foederalismusforschung hat die theoretische und ideengeschichtliche Betrachtung zunehmend in den Hintergrund gedraengt. Es fehlen sowohl eine umfassende historische Darstellung der politischen Auseinandersetzungen um den modernen Foederalismus als auch eine Analyse des Verhaeltnisses von Foederalismus und Demokratie. Der Band zeigt die Vielfalt des Foederalismusdiskurses von der Fruehen Neuzeit bis zur EU, analysiert Pfadabhaengigkeiten bestimmter Denktraditionen und beleuchtet verfassungsrechtliche Regelungen und Prinzipien der foederalen Tradition. Dabei wird ein ideengeschichtlicher Kanon vorgestellt, der das moderne Politik- und Demokratieverstaendnis nachhaltig gepraegt hat. Mit Beitraegen von Gabriele Abels Juri Auderset Volker Depkat Skadi Siiri Krause Chrlotte A. Lerg Thomas Maissen Hartmut Marhold Wiliam Mathie James Read Lee Ward Siegfried Weichlein Claudia Wiesner

Mehring, Reinhard, Jenseits von Freund und Feind: Carl Schmitt im Kontext von Antipoden. 250 S. 2025:6 (Koenigshausen & Neumann, GW) <745-605>
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Putin, Trump, Brandmauern: Wie gelangt man ueber simplifizierende Polarisierungen hinaus? Carl Schmitt-Forschung ist hier ein Laboratorium. Schmitt hatte 1933 die ≫deutschen Intellektuellen≪ und den ≫freischwebenden Intellektualismus≪ verflucht und aus Deutschland ≫ausgespien fuer alle Zeit≪. Schmitt-Forschung sollte deshalb auch die Diskriminierungsopfer einbeziehen. Der paradoxe Titel der Sammlung signalisiert das strittige Bemuehen, durch Kontroversen und Polarisierungen hindurch zu abgeklaerteren Urteilen zu gelangen. Die folgende Sammlung verknuepft neue Studien mit Sondierungen des Forschungsstandes sowie kritischen Besprechungen zur Lage und einem Essay ueber Krieg und Frieden in heutigen Tagen. Mit Hermann Heller und Juergen Habermas zielt sie dabei auf systematische Kritik. Eroeffnet wird sie aber mit Beitraegen zu drei sehr unterschiedlichen Opfern nationalsozialistischer Verfolgung: Thomas Mann, Emil Utitz, Ludwig Feuchtwanger.