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

Balazs, Zoltan / Molnar, Csaba, Modern Hungarian Political Thought: Ideologies and Traditions. 355 pp. 2024:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-736>
ISBN 978-3-031-73760-2 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This book introduces the reader into the discursive political pluralism of modern Hungary, roughly from the mid-19th century, with a particular emphasis on the spectrum of contemporary political thought. The book relies on Michael Freeden's method of ideology analysis, focusing on concepts, principles, values, as well as interrelations, but it puts a greater emphasis on nonverbal traditions as bearers of political thought to explain how political pluralism can subsist in periods of dictatorship. Through this analysis, the authors demonstrate how and why contemporary Hungarian political pluralism is a reflection both on the current trends in Western political thought and on its own past.

Jones, Richard Wyn, Putting Wales First: The Political Thought of Plaid Cymru. Volume 1. 304 pp. 2024:10 (U. Wales Pr., UK) <736-737>
ISBN 978-1-83772-183-2 paper ¥5,694.- (税込) GB￡ 19.99

This authoritative book traces the development of Plaid Cymru's political thought from its birth in 1924-5 to the establishment of the National Assembly for Wales in 1999. Through a penetrating study of the political beliefs of its most important leaders - Saunders Lewis, Gwynfor Evans, Dafydd Elis-Thomas and Dafydd Wigley - we follow the party's emergence from the political fringe to the threshold of a devolved Wales. The development of Plaid Cymru's constitutional and economic policies are examined in detail, as well as its attitude towards the Welsh language. A vibrant discussion on the nature of nationalism and nationalist ideas locates the party's intellectual development in a broader international context. This is a book that reveals Plaid Cymru in a new and sometimes controversial light.

Visone, Tommaso, Albert Camus as Philosopher and Political Thinker: The Radicality of Modesty. 146 pp. 2024:11 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-52>
ISBN 978-3-031-74563-8 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book explores the role of modesty in the thought of Albert Camus. Camusian modesty - modestie - affirms, against nihilism and absolutism, the necessity of taking care and putting passion into the relativity of human creation and recreation. The book shows how this care and passion spring from the necessity of a continually renewed tension between the self and the limits which transcend the self. From this standpoint, modesty is not a form of moderation; it goes to the root of human condition in face of the absurd. It is a radical attitude which engages human life in a daily struggle for meaning. With modesty in mind, Camus reimagined the relation between meaning and absurdity, history and nature, self and other, nation state and continent, global north and south, and war and peace. In a world of arrogance, narcissism, and fear, Camus' philosophical and political insights are fundamental in order to re-think and re-imagine our present.

Norberg, Jakob, Schopenhauer's Politics. (Modern European Philosophy) 287 pp. 2024:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-45>
ISBN 978-1-009-49154-9 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) lived through an era of great political turmoil, but previous assessments of his political thought have portrayed him as a pessimistic observer with no constructive solutions to offer. By assembling and contextualizing Schopenhauer's dispersed comments on political matters, this book reveals that he developed a distinct conception of politics. In opposition to rising ideological movements such as nationalism or socialism, Schopenhauer denied that politics can ever bring about universal emancipation or fraternal unity. Instead, he viewed politics as a tool for mitigating rather than resolving the conflicts of a fundamentally imperfect world. Jakob Norberg's fascinating book reconstructs Schopenhauer's political ideas and shows how they relate to the dominant debates and trends during the period in which he lived. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

ホッブズの二つの科学－政治学、幾何学、哲学の構造
Adams, Marcus P., Hobbes's Two Sciences: Politics, Geometry, and the Structure of Philosophy. 248 pp. 2025:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <736-15>
ISBN 978-0-19-892468-5 hard ¥21,937.- (税込) GB￡ 77.00

Seventeenth-Century Thinker Thomas Hobbes maintained that his philosophy constituted a unified system, but in what precise sense did he think that the branches of his philosophy were unified? This question has provoked extensive scholarship over the last half-century. Answering it is essential not only to understanding Hobbes's philosophy generally, but how one answers it significantly impacts our understanding of the Leviathan, his most influential work, and of the Laws of Nature, the foundation of his political philosophy. Hobbes's Two Sciences answers the question of philosophical unificiation by situating Hobbes's politics within his account of scientific knowledge as constructed by humans—an epistemology founded on the idea that makers have special access to causal knowledge—and by demonstrating that the relationship between pure and mixed mathematics provided him with a model for thinking about relationships between geometry and natural philosophy and between politics and history. Marcus P. Adams explores how this understanding of Hobbes's systematic philosophy impacts three long-standing areas of scholarship on Hobbes and the History of Early Modern Philosophy and provides a new view on Hobbes's system .

ルソーとリベラルな国際秩序の限界
King, Joshua, Rousseau and the Limits of the Liberal International Order. (The Palgrave Macmillan History of International Thought) 192 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-17>
ISBN 978-3-031-69928-3 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

Jean-Jacques Rousseau's international thought anticipates many of the political dynamics that have arisen through globalization and great power competition. Rousseau and the Limits of the Liberal International Order considers Rousseau as a critic and a reformer of international politics, arguing that Rousseau's account of liberty drives his approach to the international realm. Rousseau's work provides an incisive critique. He dismantles notions of economic rationalism, rejects the preference for administration over self-governance, and encourages strategies of resistance as a meaningful response to great power rivalry. To address these concerns, Rousseau affirms an approach to international politics that is closely related to his account of political liberty. For Rousseau, liberty develops through one's carefully chosen obligations that encourage self-rule, limit dependence on others, and constrain the irrational motives of politics. To pursue these goals, Rousseau proposes civic education and national institutions that cultivate a sense shared of humanity and limit the use of war. These alternatives moderate the desire for status and establish a form of national interest directed towards contentment and pluralism rather than competition. Rousseau acknowledges significant limits to these solutions. Citizenship creates substantive divisions among human beings, and the pursuit of national self-sufficiency may leave the state vulnerable to more powerful neighbors. Emphasizing these trade-offs draws attention to competing sources of human obligation and to the unsatisfying ways that international politics attempts to harmonize them.

モンテスキュー
Manin, Bernard, Montesquieu. (L'avocat du diable / Glassine) 243 p. 2024:9 (Hermann, FR) <736-18>
ISBN 979-10-370-4037-4 paper ¥5,649.- (税込) EUR 24.00

J.E.スティグリッツ著　自由への道－経済学と良い社会
Stiglitz, Joseph E., The Road to Freedom: Economics and the Good Society. 384 pp. 2024 (Norton, US) <251-51896>
ISBN 978-1-324-07437-3 hard ¥6,465.- (税込) US$ 29.99 *

We are a nation born from the conviction that people must be free. But since the middle of the last century, that idea has been co-opted. Forces on the political Right have justified exploitation by cloaking it in the rhetoric of freedom, leading to pharmaceutical companies freely overcharging for medication, a Big Tech free from oversight, politicians free to incite rebellion, corporations free to pollute, and more. How did we get here? Whose freedom are we-and should we-be thinking about? In The Road to Freedom, Nobel prize winner Joseph E. Stiglitz dissects America's current economic system and the political ideology that created it, laying bare their twinned failure. "Free" and unfettered markets have only succeeded in delivering a series of crises: the financial crisis, the opioid crisis, and the crisis of inequality. While a small portion of the population has amassed considerable wealth, wages for most people have stagnated. Free and unfettered markets have exploited consumers, workers, and the environment alike. Such failures have fed populist movements that believe being free means abandoning any obligations citizens have to one another. As they grow in strength, these movements now pose a real threat to true economic and political freedom. As an economic advisor to presidents and as chief economist at the World Bank, Stiglitz has witnessed these profound changes firsthand. As he argues, the failures follow from the elites' unshakeable dedication to "the neoliberal experiment." Explicitly taking on giants such as Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman, Stiglitz exposes accepted ideas about our political and economic life for what they are: twisted visions that tear at the social fabric while they enrich the very few. The Road to Freedom breaks new ground, showing how economics-including recent advances in which Stiglitz has played such an important role-reframes how to think about freedom and the role of the state in a twenty-first century society. Drawing on the work of contemporary philosophers, Stiglitz explains a deeper, more humane way to assess freedoms-one that considers with care what to do when one person's freedom conflicts with another's. We must reimagine our existing economic and legal systems and embrace forms of collective action, including regulation and investment, if we are to create an innovative society in which everyone can flourish. The task could not be more urgent, and Stiglitz's latest book is essential reading for those committed to the American ideal of an economic and political system that delivers well-being, opportunity, and meaningful freedoms for all.

民主主義的エリート主義－アメリカ政治学創設の神話
Piano, Natasha, Democratic Elitism: The Founding Myth of American Political Science. 256 pp. 2025:4 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <735-433>
ISBN 978-0-674-29537-7 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A searing argument-and work of meticulous scholarship-about how American political scientists misinterpreted the elite theory of democracy and in so doing made our political system vulnerable to oligarchic takeover.Do competitive elections secure democracy, or might they undermine it by breeding popular disillusionment with liberal norms and procedures? The so-called Italian School of Elitism, comprising Vilfredo Pareto, Gaetano Mosca, and Robert Michels, voiced this very concern. They feared that defining democracy exclusively through representative practices creates unrealistic expectations of what elections can achieve, generating mass demoralization and disillusionment with popular government.The Italian School's concern has gone unheeded, even as their elite theory has been foundational for political science in the United States. Democratic Elitism argues that scholars have misinterpreted the Italians as conservative, anti-democratic figures who championed the equation of democracy with representative practices to restrain popular participation in politics. Natasha Piano contends not only that the Italian School's thought has been distorted but also that theorists have ignored its main objective: to contain demagogues and plutocrats who prey on the cynicism of the masses. We ought to view these thinkers not as elite theorists of democracy but as democratic theorists of elitism.The Italian School's original writings do not reject electoral politics; they emphasize the power and promise of democracy beyond the ballot. Elections undoubtedly are an essential component of functioning democracies, but in order to preserve their legitimacy we must understand their true capacities and limitations. It is past time to dispel the delusion that we need only elections to solve political crises, or else mass publics, dissatisfied with the status quo, will fall deeper into the arms of authoritarians who capture and pervert formal democratic institutions to serve their own ends.

過去と現在の保守主義－哲学的入門
Rogers, Tristan J., Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction. 300 pp. 2025:1 (Routledge, UK) <735-434>
ISBN 978-1-03-213952-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-213950-0 paper ¥10,253.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

In Conservatism, Past and Present: A Philosophical Introduction, Tristan J. Rogers argues that philosophical conservatism is a coherent and compelling set of historically rooted ideas about conserving and promoting the human good. Part I, "Conservatism Past," presents a history of conservative ideas, exploring themes, such as the search for wisdom, the limits of philosophy, reform in preference to revolution, the relationship between authority and freedom, and liberty as a living tradition. Major figures include Aristotle, Saint Aquinas, Edmund Burke, G.W.F. Hegel, and Roger Scruton. Part II, "Conservatism Present," applies philosophical conservatism to contemporary conservative politics, focusing on issues such as nationalism, populism, the family, education, and responsibility. Rogers shows that conservatism has been defined differently at different times: as a loose set of connected ideas reacting against the French Revolution; as a kind of disposition or instinct in favor of the status quo; and more recently as any ideas opposed to the political left. But he also allows a set of questions to guide his argument for conservatism's merits: What is conservatism? Is it a coherent and attractive philosophy? What are conservatives for? And how is today's conservatism related to its past? In his answers, Rogers paints a compelling and coherent picture of an aligned and attractive set of ideas.

オルドリベラリズム、国家、社会－社会秩序の政治理論
Malatesta, Olimpia, Ordoliberalism, State and Society: A Political Theory of Social Order. (Law and Politics) 290 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <735-175>
ISBN 978-1-03-243201-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book provides a new interpretation of ordoliberalism - the influential German version of neoliberalism - by exploring the political, legal, and social context of its emergence.Ordoliberal scholars regarded sociology, juridical science, and economics as concrete policy-making instruments designed to discipline the structural conflicts of modern society. For, in their view, society should not impinge on the economy. Ordoliberalism is here presented as a political theory of social order, developing out of the the crisis of the Weimar Republic, and which has proven to be one of the most influential neoliberal accounts of social organization after WWII. Assessing the influence that leading German intellectuals such as Sombart, Schmoller, Savigny and Schmitt have exerted on ordoliberalism, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the social, legal, and political theory of Walter Eucken, Franz Boehm, Alfred Mueller-Armack, Wilhelm Roepke and Alexander Ruestow. In so doing, the book offers an invaluable study of the ideological roots of the notion of an economic constitution, and a political-theoretical analysis of one of the first articulations of authoritarian liberalism at the European level.This book will appeal to scholars and students of legal, social, political and economic theory.

社会契約論と国際関係－ホッブズからカントまで
Chadwick, Stephen, Social Contract Theory and International Relations: From Hobbes to Kant. 173 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <734-8>
ISBN 978-3-031-64220-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to international relations. These philosophers belong to the social contract tradition and are considered some of the most influential political theorists. Their ideas have played a role in the formation of national political constitutions and remain very influential both in understanding and legitimising the structure of societies around the world. This book is an innovative analysis of what these thinkers have claimed regarding the relationship between nation states, rather than contributing to the established scholarship on what they have said about individual political societies. Specifically, individual chapters examine war and peace, world governance, inequality, and terrorism.

Dobski, Bernard J., Mark Twain's Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity. (Recovering Political Philosophy) 324 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-838>
ISBN 978-3-031-65718-4 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably America's greatest author. More precisely, this study illuminates Twain's political wisdom by examining his approach to the theological-political problem; it takes up Twain's handling of the question of whether a providential deity intervenes in human affairs so as to effectuate divine justice on earth and it does this through a commentary on his last complete novel. Through this investigation, Twain prompts his audience to explore the natural, conventional, or divine basis for justice in political life. Such a study is critical for understanding Twain's corpus, concerned as it is with the tension between material determinism and moral agency. Dobski argues that Twain's last novel prepares his readers to adopt a "new" understanding of man and his relationship to God, his country, and his fellow man.

Omar, Ayesha, The Pluralistic Frameworks of Ibn Rushd and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. (Elements in Comparative Political Theory) 75 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <734-839>
ISBN 978-1-00-951730-0 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-938632-6 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

The purpose of this Element is to analyse the assiduous attempts of two Islamic political thinkers-the 12th century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd and the contemporary Sudanese reformist Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im-to theorise Islamic politics through an approach the author refers to as 'pluralistic frameworks'. A pluralistic framework, is a systematic mediation of Islamic ethics and politics that incorporates extra-Islamic traditions of thought from diverse sources. Pluralistic frameworks selectively and self-consciously enable dialogue, synthesis, and hybridity and seek to maintain a distinct conception of Islamic ethics that concords with a preferred set of political arguments. They enable reflexivity within the ethical purview of Islam and with an awareness of the normativity of shari'a.Both Ibn Rushd and An-Na'im reconcile shari'a in two very different ways, but to a common end; Ibn Rushd lays out a method of harmonisation with Greek thought, while An-Na'im resorts to the radical subversion of sharia under liberal thought.

西洋思想におけるギリシアとローマの正義理論とその遺産
Straumann, Benjamin, The Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and Their Legacy in Western Thought. 288 pp. 2025:1 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <734-840>
ISBN 978-1-118-63468-4 paper ¥18,315.- (税込) US$ 84.95

Haskins, Alex, An Appeal to the World: Creolizing Domination in the Political Thought of Montesquieu, Fukuzawa, and Du Bois. 232 pp. 2024:12 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <733-801>
ISBN 979-88-8180-287-5 hard ¥25,872.- (税込) US$ 120.00

Herkert, Felix / Kerkmann, Jan / Sailer, D. M. (Hrsg.), Politischer Realismus I: Beitraege zu einem ideengeschichtlichen Schluesselparadigma. (Politisches Denken in Europa / Political Thought in Europe 1) 250 S. 2024:6 (Nomos, GW) <733-802>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0683-0 paper ¥18,596.- (税込) EUR 79.00 *

In heuristischer Absicht kann unter dem Begriff des ?politischen Realismus“ eine theoretische Position verstanden werden, welche die moegliche Grundlegung politischer Ordnung aus und anhand ueberzeitlich gueltiger Prinzipien, Ideale und Normen bestreitet. Das Paradigma des ?politischen Realismus“ sucht stattdessen die Genese von Herrschaft und Souveraenitaet aus innergeschichtlich zu Tage tretenden oder anthropologisch fundierten Machtdynamiken zu erschliessen. Der Sammelband beinhaltet systematisch und historisch argumentierende Beitraege, die eine Abgrenzung des politischen Realismus gegenueber leitenden Grundstellungen der klassischen und der modernen politischen Philosophie vornehmen. Mit Beitraegen von Dirk Brantl Felix Herkert Christina Kast Jan Kerkmann Manuel Knoll Jeronimo Molina Cano Ieva Motuzaite Christian Th. Mueller David Manolo Sailer Ruediger Voigt Barbara Zehnpfennig

政治理論・実践における連邦同盟　1500～1951年
Livestro, Joshua, A More Perfect Union: Federal Union in Political Theory and Practice, 1500-1951. 552 pp. 2024:5 (Amsterdam U. Pr., NE) <733-803>
ISBN 978-90-485-6377-7 hard ¥51,566.- (税込) GB￡ 181.00

This book tells the history of the 'federal union', a concept that may be traced from the early Renaissance to the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community (1951) - the predecessor of today's European Union. It is a story of three federal canons: of greater and lesser thinkers, of utopian peace plans, and of practical experiences with federal unions. Together they shaped the concepts that created the ECSC. This book unlocks the past of the EU - a union that always thought it didn't have a past, but was, on the contrary, 'sui generis', without examples or predecessors. Although there was nothing inevitable about the founding of the EU, A More Perfect Union shows that it was plausible and perhaps even predictable that such a union would be formed at some point - and that the aftermath of the Second World War was exactly the kind of founding moment about which federal theorists in previous centuries had speculated.

T.ジェファソンの啓蒙思想－イングランド、スコットランド、フランスの影響
McLean, Iain, Thomas Jefferson's Enlightenment: English, Scottish and French Influences on the Third US President. 238 pp. 2024:11 (Lexington Books, US) <733-804>
ISBN 978-1-66694-043-5 hard ¥23,716.- (税込) US$ 110.00

D'Arcy, Stephen, Frege and Fascism. (Routledge Studies in Fascism and the Far Right) 264 pp. 2024:12 (Routledge, UK) <733-43>
ISBN 978-1-03-207112-1 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

This book is the first to examine in minutiae the politics of Gottlob Frege (1848-1925), and his connections with various traditions of far right and fascist thought.Frege was a philosopher of logic, language, and mathematics. But he also believed that one could reconcile the politics of the far right with a firm commitment to reason-guided inquiry and scientific objectivity. The fundamental claim of the text is that Gottlob Frege was from the early 1890s to the mid-1920s an anti-democratic, nationalist political thinker, and that his political thought eventually took on a fascist character. This book makes no attempt to vilify or demonize Gottlob Frege, nor does it try to rescue him from criticism. It simply seeks to tell the truth about Frege's descent into fascism: to document it in hitherto unprecedented detail; to situate it in the context of intellectual and political debates in early Weimar-era Germany; and to explain how it could have happened that someone so intelligent and so manifestly devoted to reason and logic could have embraced fascism with such unreserved enthusiasm.It will be of interest to scholars of analytic philosophy, intellectual history, fascism, and anti-democratic thought.

Ibn Khaldun / Martinez-Gros, Gabriel (ed.), Ibn Khaldun: Political Thought. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 286 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <732-765>
ISBN 978-1-00-932871-5 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-00-932875-3 paper ¥6,834.- (税込) GB￡ 23.99

Ibn Khaldun is one of the outstanding thinkers about the nature of society and politics in the pre-modern Arab world. This volume presents the political writings of the fourteenth-century philosopher, stressing their enduring relevance. Arnold Toynbee used to say that Ibn Khaldun's work was the most impressive endeavour to build a theory out of history ever undertaken before the nineteenth century. However, translators and historians discovered Ibn Khaldun at the time when new revolutionary economic and political conditions were dismissive of his philosophy. In this edition, Gabriel Martinez-Gros brings Ibn Khaldun's political thought to the forefront, exploring his theories in the context of his era, but also emphasizing their profound resonances with modern society. Far from the caricature of Ibn Khaldun as a 'tribal philosopher', Martinez-Gros shows that Ibn Khaldun's thought is about creating wealth in an agrarian society, concerned with economic concepts, demography, war and violence.

Emigh, Rebecca Jean / Riley, Dylan (eds.), Elites, Nonelites, and Power: The Critical Legacy of Elite Theory from Marx to Lachmann, and Then Beyond. (Political Power and Social Theory 41) 368 pp. 2024:11 (Emerald, UK) <731-682>
ISBN 978-1-83797-584-6 hard ¥31,908.- (税込) US$ 148.00

In a world of vertiginous inequality, escalating ecological disaster, and extraordinary political and economic turbulence generated by a winner-take-all society seemingly designed to concentrate privilege and power in the hands of a very few, the central question that faces social science-and indeed the world-is whether social protest will change anything, or whether elites will continue to lead the planet and its population to disaster. All important topics of contemporary social science, including racial justice, environmental change, immigration, economic inequality, and education, to name a few, revolve around this issue. Elites, Nonelites, and Power explores how the question of the power of elites, and the conditions under which that power might be tamed, lie at the heart of social science today. Bringing together a cutting-edge set of multidisciplinary papers on power, elites, and nonelites, that weigh in on these central issues of the world and social science, the collection consider these topics in a new, inclusive way, by drawing in researchers who deal with topics central to elite theory, but who might not be represented in more classic statements of it. A "go to" piece for several generations of scholars, this is a compelling volume for scholars across the social sciences interested in elite theory.

オスマン世界における政治思想史
Nomer, Nedim / Sahin, Kaya, Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World. 384 pp. 2024:12 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <731-683>
ISBN 978-0-19-288834-1 hard ¥33,903.- (税込) GB￡ 119.00

This collection of papers is intended to provide a survey of the history of political ideas in the Ottoman world from its dawn around 1300 to its downfall in the early 20th century. It features fourteen original papers by some of the most prominent and innovative scholars of Ottoman history. The book sheds light on the complex role that ideas have played in all aspects of Ottoman social and political life throughout the history of the Ottoman world, across time, space, social class, and ethnic and religious identity. Histories of Political Thought in the Ottoman World takes exception to a common tendency, both among Ottoman historians and in the broader academic world, that considers Ottoman political life exclusively in terms of the political ideas of the Sunni Muslim governing elite. It makes clear that the non-elite, non-Sunni Muslim, non-Muslim, non-Turkish, and female members of the Ottoman society have also significantly contributed to the making of Ottoman political culture throughout its history.

国家の出現へ向けて－近世政治思想における国家と主権
Schroeder, Peter, Zur Entstehung des Staates: Staat und Souveraenitaet im politischen Denken der Fruehen Neuzeit. (Staatsverstaendnisse 180) 216 S. 2024:7 (Nomos, GW) <731-685>
ISBN 978-3-8487-8025-9 paper ¥12,711.- (税込) EUR 54.00 *

In der Fruehen Neuzeit Europas entwickelte sich ein neues Verstaendnis des Staates, das zunaechst in dem schlichten, aber zugleich auch ambitionierten Anspruch bestand, Frieden und Sicherheit zu garantieren. Die Autoren, die in diesem Band behandelt werden, haben nicht nur den politischen Diskurs ihrer Zeit mitgepraegt, sondern sie haben mit ihren Schriften auch ein Reservoir an Ideen, Begriffen und Konzepten zur Verfuegung gestellt, aus dem wir heute immer noch schoepfen. Sich damit auseinanderzusetzen, was von diesem Reservoir fuer das eigene Politik- und Staatsverstaendnis nutzbar gemacht werden kann und sollte, gehoerte bereits fuer diese Denker zu ihrem Geschaeft. Diese Auseinandersetzung zu verstehen, ist das eigentliche Anliegen dieses Bandes.

Volney, Constantin, The Ruins and Catechism of Natural Law. Ed. & Tr. by C. Kidd. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 2024:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <731-687>
ISBN 978-1-108-49310-9 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00
ISBN 978-1-108-71726-7 paper ¥7,404.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99

憲法制定権力、暴力、国家－G.ソレル、W.ベンヤミン、H.アーレントの政治思想
Vouros, Dimitri, Constituent Power, Violence, and the State: The Political Thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt. (Routledge Innovations in Political Theory) 264 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <731-688>
ISBN 978-1-03-276903-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00

In Constituent Power, Violence, and the State, Dimitri Vouros examines the question of political violence by placing the thought of Georges Sorel, Walter Benjamin, and Hannah Arendt in conversation with contemporary theories of sovereignty and constituent power.Vouros argues that the violence sustaining the modern state inhibits institutional accountability and derails constituent power. The paradox of modern law-which is both the expression of the people's will but also alienated from them-sets the stage for political contestation. For Vouros, the multitude's potentiality is actualized through either organized or spontaneous acts of resistance against state force. Antagonism is therefore a key element of the political and must be included in any theory of political agonism. A strong notion of constituent power ensures the integrity of the public sphere and the expansion of citizens' political agency. Bringing all these ideas together is unique for this field of investigation.Accessible and engagingly written, Constituent Power, Violence, and the State is a must read for researchers in political theory and political philosophy. Critical legal studies scholars and social theorists will also profit from this book.

Ruck, Michael, Arnold Brechts Staatsverstaendnis in Praxis und Theorie: Deutscher Verwaltungsjurist - amerikanischer Staatswissenschaftler - transnationaler Politikberater. (Staatsverstaendnisse 181) 210 S. 2024:7 (Nomos, GW) <731-432>
ISBN 978-3-8487-5332-1 paper ¥12,711.- (税込) EUR 54.00 *

Arnold Brecht (1884-1977) wirkte seit 1918/19 als republikanischer Verwaltungsmodernisierer und Reichsreformer. 1932/33 scheiterte sein Versuch, die demokratische Staatsgewalt auf juristischem Wege vor der Usurpation durch die nationale Rechte zu retten. Seitdem arbeitete Brecht als Verwaltungs- und Politikwissenschaftler im nordamerikanischen Exil. Beharrlich warb er dort fuer den kuenftigen Wiederaufbau eines demokratischen Rechts- und Verfassungsstaates in Deutschland. Die junge Bundesrepublik begleitete er mit persoenlichen Initiativen. Die Aufsaetze des Bandes wuerdigen Brechts Beitraege zur konstitutionellen Reorganisation, administrativen Optimierung und ideellen Fundierung der deutschen Staatsgewalt im internationalen Kontext.

シュンペーターと国家
Sturn, Richard (Hrsg.), Joseph Schumpeter und der Staat. (Staatsverstaendnisse 179) 339 S. 2024:7 (Nomos, GW) <731-119>
ISBN 978-3-8487-7337-4 paper ¥18,596.- (税込) EUR 79.00 *

Joseph Schumpeter war kein Staatstheoretiker oder Staatsrechtler. Die Aufsaetze des vorliegenden Bandes zeigen aber, dass das Nachdenken ueber seine Einsichten und provokanten Zuspitzungen mehr als lohnend ist. Schumpeter nimmt die Koevolution von moderner Staatlichkeit und kapitalistischer Marktwirtschaft und ihre krisentraechtigen Schnittstellen in den Blick. Er entwickelt daraus keine geschlossene Staatstheorie, sondern Hypothesen und Theoreme, die historische Moeglichkeiten abstecken. Seine brillanten Einsichten und kontextbedingten Zuspitzungen wurden so zu unverzichtbaren Bezugspunkten fuer Staatstheorie und die Politische Oekonomie und Soziologie des oeffentlichen Sektors. Mit Beitraegen von Harald Bluhm Rudolf Dujmovits Tina Ehrke-Rabel Ulrich Hedtke Sebastian Huhnholz Heinz D. Kurz Walter Reese-Schaefer Andreas Resch Christian Seidl Richard Sturn Martin Sumper Reinhard Zintl

社会民主主義
Goes, Eunice, Social Democracy. (Short Histories) 176 pp. 2024:3 (Agenda Pub., UK) <730-534>
ISBN 978-1-78821-615-9 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-78821-616-6 paper ¥5,409.- (税込) GB￡ 18.99

Social democracy emerged in the late nineteenth century and has become a leading political ideology in Europe. This short history approaches the evolution of this ideology as a body of political thought and political practices. It expounds the development, transformation and practice of European social democracy through the analysis of four key moments in its history: its origins and rise as a key political force in European politics, the second revisionist phase with the embrace of capitalism in the postwar period, the Third Way of the 1990s and the contemporary crisis of social democracy in an era of fragmented politics. The book offers a fresh and engaging discussion of one of the most enduring ideologies of the European political sphere and its manifestations in different countries of the region.

Janssen, Jorn, Max Stirner and the Political Theology of Fanaticism. 196 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <730-535>
ISBN 978-3-031-61025-7 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a rigorous and insightful exploration of political fanaticism, guided by a nuanced interpretation of the works of Max Stirner, a philosopher often overlooked in contemporary discourse. Based on a comprehensive analysis of Stirner's perspectives, the book sheds light on the phenomenon of political fanaticism and its implications for modern society. Defined as an intense and irrational emotional investment in political convictions, political fanaticism permeates both North American and European contexts, presenting a significant area of study within political theory. The aim of this work is not to advocate for any particular ideological position but rather to critically examine the phenomenon itself. Central to the investigation is Stirner's distinctive idea that political fanaticism mirrors the fervor of religious zealotry transposed onto the political stage. By delving into Stirner's philosophical insights, the book aims to elucidate the underlying mechanisms driving political fanaticism and its relationship to broader societal shifts. Contributing to the field of political theology by exploring the intersections between politics and religious belief systems, the aim is to achieve a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics at play in contemporary political discourse. Ultimately, the goal is to provide scholars and researchers with a comprehensive framework for analyzing and contextualizing political fanaticism within the broader landscape of modern politics. By engaging with Stirner's works and interrogating their relevance to contemporary challenges, the book seeks to enrich scholarly discourse and foster critical reflection on this pressing issue.

Lacaita, Carlo G. / Martinelli, Alberto (eds.), The Civilization of Modernity: An Anthology of Carlo Cattaneo's Writings. (Studies in the History of Political Thought 18) 462 pp. 2024:11 (Brill, NE) <730-536>
ISBN 978-90-04-44742-4 hard ¥34,133.- (税込) EUR 145.00

This volume offers an exhaustive selection of Cattaneo's writings, which cover a wide range of issues and advance highly innovative theories, such as the achievement of republican federalism in Italy and Europe, thought as a principle of political economy, and the psychology of associated mind. The two introductory essays examine how his ideas developed through the time and argue for their enduring vitality.

Oberndoerfer, Dieter, Arnold Bergstraesser: Demokratischer Aufbruch und weltbuergerliche Verantwortung. (Politisches Denken in der Gegenwart; Urban-Taschenbuecher) 130 S. 2024:12 (Kohlhammer, GW) <730-537>
ISBN 978-3-17-044969-5 paper ¥5,885.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Arnold Bergstraesser (1896-1964) war einer der Gruendervaeter der Politikwissenschaft in Deutschland. Sein politisches Denken verstand er als "synoptische Wissenschaft", die sich u. a. aus der Soziologie, der Volkswirtschaftslehre, der Geschichte und den politischen Institutionen speist. Das eroeffnete ihm vielfaeltige Denk- und Handlungsraeume. Besonders bekannt ist er fuer seine visionaeren Ansaetze weltpolitischen Denkens und als Begruender der sogenannten "Freiburger Schule" der Politikwissenschaft, mit ihrem normativen und praxisorientierten Ansatz. Mit Dieter Oberndoerfer legt einer der ersten Bergstraesser-Schueler ein Buch vor, in dem sich die Lebensgeschichte, das Wirken und Denken Bergstraessers buendeln. Persoenliche Erinnerungen verbinden sich auf lebendige Weise mit der Geschichte der Politikwissenschaft.

ギリシア政治思想の遺産必携
Carter, David / Foxley, Rachel / Sawyer, Liz (eds.), Brill's Companion to the Legacy of Greek Political Thought. (Brill's Companions to Philosophy 8 / Brill's Companions to Philosophy: Ancient Philosophy) 475 pp. 2024:10 (Brill, NE) <730-18>
ISBN 978-90-04-67933-7 hard ¥46,844.- (税込) EUR 199.00

A wealth of political literature has survived from Greek antiquity, from political theory by Plato and Aristotle to the variety of prose and verse texts that more broadly demonstrate political thinking. However, despite the extent of this legacy, it can be surprisingly hard to say how ancient Greek political thought makes its influence felt, or whether this influence has been sustained across the centuries. This volume includes a range of disciplinary responses to issues surrounding the legacy of Greek political thought, exploring the ways in which political thinking has evolved from antiquity to the present day.

Bojar, Karen, The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC. 320 pp. 2024:11 (Routledge, UK) <729-789>
ISBN 978-1-03-282467-3 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00
ISBN 978-1-03-281957-0 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99

The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC traces the intersection of feminism and socialism as it has played out in the socialist movements arising in Europe and North America in the 19th through early 21st centuries. From well-known figures in the history of socialism such as Rosa Luxemburg, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Angela Davis, to lesser-known individuals including Claudia Jones, Sheila Rowbotham and Zillah Eisenstein, this book examines the socialist feminists who have been among the most powerful voices insisting on freedom of expression and participatory democracy within the socialist movement as well as within the larger society. It considers how these figures contributed to what has become a 21st century multi-racial grassroots socialist feminist movement led by young women of color, playing a major role in radical movements across the globe.The Evolution of Socialist Feminism from Eleanor Marx to AOC is an important text for undergraduate students of politics, sociology, and gender studies, as well as for the general reader.

Kraus, Hans-Christof, Traditionen - Ideen - Persoenlichkeiten: Studien zur Geschichte des Konservatismus. Kleine Schriften II. VIII, 583 S. 2024:6 (Duncker, GW) <729-791>
ISBN 978-3-428-18792-8 hard ¥14,099.- (税込) EUR 59.90 *

Der Band enthaelt die gesammelten Studien des Passauer Historikers zur Geschichte des deutschen und europaeischen Konservatismus vom 18. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert. Ausgehend von grundlegenden Ueberlegungen zu neuesten Deutungen des Phaenomens Konservatismus werden in einem zweiten Abschnitt zentrale Entwicklungen und Teilaspekte thematisiert, darunter das konservative Verstaendnis von ≫korporativer Libertaet≪, die Bezuege zum alten deutschen Reich, zur ≫Heiligen Allianz≪, zur politischen Romantik, zum Liberalismus und allgemein zum europaeischen ≫Westen≪. Als Persoenlichkeiten werden unter anderem Friedrich Schlegel, Adam Mueller, Carl Ernst Jarcke, die Brueder Gerlach sowie, aus spaeterer Zeit, Friedrich Sieburg und Hans-Joachim Schoeps in den Blick genommen. Der letzte Abschnitt versammelt vier Einzelstudien zu wichtigen konservativen Zeitschriften. Saemtliche Aufsaetze werden hier in gruendlich ueberarbeiteter, ergaenzter und teilweise auch erweiterter Fassung abgedruckt.

ホッブズの正義論
Olsthoorn, Johan, Hobbes on Justice. 328 pp. 2024:11 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <729-20>
ISBN 978-0-19-886798-2 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

代表制対民主主義－ホッブズからJ.S.ミルまで
Lorrain, Ludmilla, La representation contre la democratie: de Thomas Hobbes a John Stuart Mill. (Les anciens et les modernes, etudes de philosophie) 552 p. 2024:6 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <729-17>
ISBN 978-2-406-16848-5 hard ¥21,656.- (税込) EUR 92.00
ISBN 978-2-406-16847-8 paper ¥10,122.- (税込) EUR 43.00

Gencer, Zuelkifl, Islam und Staatlichkeit: Das islamisch-politische Denken der Moderne im Dialog mit der westlich-politischen Ideengeschichte. (falsafa. Horizonte islamischer Religionsphilosophie 10) 380 S. 2024:5 (Nomos, GW) <729-175>
ISBN 978-3-495-99331-6 paper ¥20,950.- (税込) EUR 89.00 *

Das Politische verleiht dem jeweiligen Gegenueber eine Gestalt. Sie kann sich in Form von Freund-Feind, Gut-Boese, Friedlich-Bedrohlich polarisierend zeigen wie auch emphatisch, als eine Plattform fuer die Vermittlung des kennend-anerkennenden Erkennens. Im ?Anerkennen“ heben zwei Menschen gegenseitig ihr Anderssein auf, indem sie im anderen Sein nicht nur ihr Anderes sehen, ?sondern sich selbst im Anderen“. Das polarisierend-Politische ist global und medial ueberrepraesentiert. Polarisierungen sind in politischen Debatten global und medial ueberrepraesentiert. Es ergibt sich die Notwendigkeit von Zugaengen, die zu einer vorurteilsfreien und sachlichen Debatte beitragen, auch und vor allem im Diskurs ueber das islamisch-politische Denken.

Maiwald, Florian, Ein sozialistischer Liberaler oder ein liberaler Sozialist?: Der Wert der Individualitaet als Transzendierung politischer Kategorien in der Philosophie John Stuart Mills. 450 S. 2024:6 (Nomos, GW) <729-18>
ISBN 978-3-7560-1645-7 paper ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

Der Sozialismus wird oftmals als eine kollektivistische Weltanschauung beschrieben, waehrend der Liberalismus als dessen Gegensatz dargestellt wird, da dieser das Gedeihen des Individuums in den Vordergrund rueckt. Anhand von John Stuart Mills Denken ? welcher als einer der wohl klassischsten Vertreter des Liberalismus gilt ? versucht Florian Maiwald nachzuweisen, dass jener Widerspruch, welche den beiden politischen Weltanschauungen haeufig unterstellt wird, einer berechtigten Infragestellung unterzogen werden sollte. Letzten Endes liegen dem Werk jedoch weitaus tiefergreifende Fragestellungen zugrunde: Was bedeutet Freiheit? Und welche Bedingungen muessen erfuellt sein, damit der Mensch wirklich frei ist?

Perez Mena, Ferran, Contender States and Modern Chinese International Thought: From the Republican era until the 'Chinese School of International Relations'. 206 pp. 2024 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <728-804>
ISBN 978-981-9721-50-4 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book contends that the development of modern Chinese international thought has been profoundly shaped by the distinctive nature of the Chinese state as a contender state and its global positioning since 1912. The argument posited demonstrates that, notwithstanding the varied perspectives on the 'international' held by Chinese intellectuals throughout the 20th century, there exist commonalities across the periods analyzed in this book. In essence, the book emphasizes that the shared elements influencing the production of modern Chinese international thought do not derive from a unified cultural Chinese identity but rather stem from China's evolving geopolitical position in the modern world.

ハンス・ケルゼン全集　第9巻：論文集　1921～23年
Kelsen, Hans, Werke. Bd. 9: Veroeffentlichte Schriften 1921-1923. 700 S. 2024:9 (Mohr, GW) <727-443>
ISBN 978-3-16-150667-3 hard ¥49,198.- (税込) EUR 209.00

Band 9 der HKW umfasst 16 Schriften der Jahre 1922 und 1923 sowie einen erst juengst wiederentdeckten Zeitungsartikel Kelsens aus dem Jahre 1921. Neben Ausarbeitungen zum oesterreichischen und tschechoslowakischen Verfassungsrecht, darunter der dritte Bericht ueber Oesterreichs Verfassungslage im Jahrbuch fuer Oeffentliches Recht , positioniert sich Kelsen einmal mehr kritisch zu Marxismus, Sozialismus und Bolschewismus. Doch im Zentrum dieser Schaffensperiode stehen drei Beitraege, die sich um Kelsens eigenen Kreis drehen: Waehrend dieser in der beruehmten Vorrede zur Zweitauflage der Hauptprobleme der Staatsrechtslehre ein Dutzend Jahre nach Erscheinen der Erstauflage die mittlerweile konsolidierte Entwicklungsgeschichte der Wiener Schule der Rechtstheorie erzaehlen kann und dabei die Beitraege seiner Schuelerinnen und Schueler ausgiebig wuerdigt, sieht er sich herausgefordert - von Fritz Sander, einem seiner begabtesten Schueler, der in einer Mischung von persoenlichen und sachlichen Gruenden in scharfen Gegensatz zu seinem Lehrer tritt.

Bellido, Francisco J., Constitutional Debates, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy in Spain's Parliamentary History. (Rhetoric, Politics and Society) 217 pp. 2024:4 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <726-498>
ISBN 978-3-031-56893-0 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book examines the conceptual contributions of constituent representatives in Spain during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Spanish Parliament has been the stage for the political modernisation of the country. Constitutional debates have historically led to the gradual acknowledgement and broadening - usually unevenly - of citizens' rights. At the same time, constitutional debates have created opportunities to design institutions and settle legal mechanisms to enforce rights and distribute state resources. The book identifies and analyses rhetorical and conceptual innovations produced in such debates from a historical perspective.

G.オーウェル・ハンドブック
Waddell, Nathan (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell. (Oxford Handbooks) 864 pp. 2025:1 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <726-28>
ISBN 978-0-19-886069-3 hard ¥45,868.- (税込) GB￡ 161.00

The Oxford Handbook of George Orwell offers a wide-ranging reconsideration of Orwell's life and work, focusing on the extensive connections between his novels, essays, diaries, columns, letters, and reviews. Accessible to general readers and to established scholars alike, forty-eight chapters written by an international team of Orwell specialists address familiar topics-such as Orwell's journalism, broadcasting, literary criticism, and politics-as well as less well-trodden areas of his output, such as his accounts of stupidity, kindness, and justice, and his connections with contemporaries like Jack Common, Katharine Burdekin, Wyndham Lewis, and Victor Serge. Sections on Orwell's professional activities, his main literary influences, his politics, his intellectual fixations, his literary contemporaries, and his legacies structure the book, which moves thematically and topically through the full scope of his output. The first section looks at how Orwell spent his time as a writer, reader, and broadcaster. Chapters on writers from Shakespeare to the modernists investigate the determinants of Orwell's literary practice. The book then turns to a set of political contexts in which Orwell's writing can be understood. The 'Fixations' section covers the familiar, such as Orwell's account of Englishness, and the unfamiliar, such as his account of the absurd. The fifth section relates Orwell to several politically minded contemporaries, tracing connections and differences between their writing. The final section of the Handbook reflects on how Orwell sounds through several literary and socio-political legacies, and includes innovative considerations of feminism, Afrofuturism, and queer speculative fiction.

P.オーウェンズ著　男性なき国際思想史
Owens, Patricia, Erased: A History of International Thought Without Men. 408 pp. 2025:1 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-510>
ISBN 978-0-691-26644-2 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00

How a field built on the intellectual labor and expertise of women erased them The academic field of international relations presents its own history as largely a project of elite white men. And yet women played a prominent role in the creation of this new cross-disciplinary field. In Erased, Patricia Owens shows that, since its beginnings in the early twentieth century, international relations relied on the intellectual labour of women and their expertise on such subjects as empire and colonial administration, anticolonial organising, non-Western powers, and international organisations. Indeed, women were among the leading international thinkers of the era, shaping the development of the field as scholars, journalists and public intellectuals-and as heterosexual spouses and intimate same-sex partners.Drawing on a wide range of archival sources, and weaving together personal, institutional and intellectual narratives, Owens documents key moments and locations in the effort to forge international relations as a separate academic discipline in Britain. She finds that women's ideas and influence were first marginalised and later devalued, ignored and erased. Examining the roles played by some of the most important women thinkers in the field, including Margery Perham, Merze Tate, Eileen Power, Margaret Cleeve, Coral Bell and Susan Strange, Owens traces the intellectual and institutional legacies of misogyny and racism. She argues that the creation of international relations was a highly gendered and racialised project that failed to understand plurality on a worldwide scale. Acknowledging this intellectual failure, and recovering the history of women in the field, points to possible sources for its renewal.

Q.スキナー著　独立としての自由－政治的理念の形成と解体
Skinner, Quentin, Liberty as Independence: The Making and Unmaking of a Political Ideal. 348 pp. 2024:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <725-511>
ISBN 978-1-107-02773-2 hard ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

What does liberty entail? How have concepts of liberty changed over time? And what are the global consequences? This book surveys the history of rival views of liberty from antiquity to modern times. Quentin Skinner traces the understanding of liberty as independence from the classical ideal to early modern Britain, culminating in the claims of the Whig oligarchy to have transformed this idea into reality. Yet, with the Whig vision of a free state and civil society undermined by the American Revolution of 1776, Skinner explores how claims that liberty was fulfilled by an absence of physical or coercive restraint came to prominence. Liberty as Independence examines new dimensions of these rival views, considering the connections between debates on liberty and debates on slavery, and demonstrating how these ideas were harnessed in feminist discussions surrounding limitations on the liberty of women. The concept of liberty is inherently global, and Skinner argues strongly for the reinstatement of the understanding of liberty as independence.

Williams, David Lay, The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought from Plato to Marx. 424 pp. 2024:9 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <725-512>
ISBN 978-0-691-17197-5 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

How the great political thinkers have persistently warned against the dangers of economic inequalityEconomic inequality is one of the most daunting challenges of our time, with public debate often turning to questions of whether it is an inevitable outcome of economic systems and what, if anything, can be done about it. But why, exactly, should inequality worry us? The Greatest of All Plagues demonstrates that this underlying question has been a central preoccupation of some of the most eminent political thinkers of the Western intellectual tradition.David Lay Williams shares bold new perspectives on the writings and ideas of Plato, Jesus, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Karl Marx. He shows how they describe economic inequality as a source of political instability and a corrupter of character and soul, and how they view unchecked inequality as a threat to their most cherished values, such as justice, faith, civic harmony, peace, democracy, and freedom. Williams draws invaluable insights into the societal problems generated by what Plato called "the greatest of all plagues," and examines the solutions employed through the centuries.An eye-opening work of intellectual history, The Greatest of All Plagues recovers a forgotten past for some of the most timeless books in the Western canon, revealing how economic inequality has been a paramount problem throughout the history of political thought.

Leon Casero, Jorge / Urabayen, Julia (eds.), Rethinking Democracy for Post-Utopian Worlds: Alternative Political Projects After the Sovereign State. (Palgrave Studies in Utopianism) 338 pp. 2024:7 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-590>
ISBN 978-3-031-53490-4 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is both a conceptualization and detailed analysis of the current crisis in which modern utopian categories of political institutions find themselves, as well as a reflection and clarification of the new dangers and opportunities facing post-utopian politics in-the-making. Met with those who believe that no more utopian political projects are possible, the post-utopian movement maintains a non-fantastic or illusory character of being able to apply new great discourses and radically democratic historical narratives, while respecting both the autonomy and emancipation of individuals as plurality and the socio-cultural differences of communities. With this purpose in mind, the book is divided into five thematically differentiated sections: the new utopian categories beyond modern epistemes; the possibility of liberal utopian democracies without neoliberalism; the opportunities of socialist empowerments and insurgencies; the necessity of thinking in the space between two ages; andthe urgency to create eco-political post-utopias.

E.C.Page著　ヴェーバーによる官僚制の理解－シャルルマーニュ以降の欧州における国家の発展、官僚制、官僚－
Page, Edward C., Weber's Scorecard: State Development, Bureaucracy, and Officialdom in Europe since Charlemagne. 304 pp. 2024:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <724-591>
ISBN 978-0-19-890427-4 hard ¥28,205.- (税込) GB￡ 99.00 *

This book examines Max Weber's understanding of bureaucracy by applying his ideas to the development of officialdom from the ninth century to the present in six territories: England, Sweden, France, Germany, Spain, and Hungary. Edward Page takes a broad view of bureaucracy that includes not only officials in important central or national institutions but also those providing goods and services locally. The 'scorecard' is based on expected developments in four key areas of Weber's analysis: the functional differentiation of tasks within government, professionalism, formalism, and monocracy. After discussing the character of officialdom in the ninth, twelfth, fifteenth, eighteenth, and twenty-first centuries, the book reveals that Weber's scorecard has a mixed record, especially weak in its account of the development of monocracy and formalism. A final chapter discusses alternative conceptions of bureaucratic development and sets out an account based on understanding processes of routinization, institutional integration, and the instrumentalization of law.

White, Jonathan, In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea. 272 pp. 2024:2 (Profile Books, UK) <724-594>
ISBN 978-1-80081-230-7 hard ¥5,698.- (税込) GB￡ 20.00 *

Exhilarating' Financial Times 'Highly perceptive, engaging and somewhat startling' Literary Review 'A profound meditation on how and why democracy must keep its faith in the future and the future must keep its faith in democracy' David Runciman Democracy is future-oriented and self-correcting: today's problems can be solved, we are told, in tomorrow's elections. But the biggest issues facing the modern world - from climate collapse and pandemics to recession and world war - each apparently bring us to the edge of the irreversible. What happens to democracy when the future seems no longer open? In this eye-opening history of ideas, Jonathan White investigates how politics has long been directed by shifting visions of the future, from the birth of ideologies in the nineteenth century to Cold War secrecy and the excesses of the neoliberal age. As an inescapable sense of disaster defines our politics, White argues that a political commitment to the long-term may be the best way to safeguard democracy. Wide in scope and sharply observed, In the Long Run is a history of the future that urges us to make tomorrow new again.

Lesch, Charles H. T., Maimonides and Jewish Theocracy: The Human Hand of Divine Rule. (Elements in Comparative Political Theory) 2024:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <724-119>
ISBN 978-1-00-946811-4 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-79342-1 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *