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

Droin, Nathalie / de Thy, Ludovic (dir.), Decentralisation et Republique dans la pensee juridique et politique de la troisieme Republique. (Rencontres) 293 p. 2025:3 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <748-400>
ISBN 978-2-406-18081-4 hard ¥17,890.- (税込) EUR 76.00
ISBN 978-2-406-18080-7 paper ¥6,591.- (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 ¥38,164.- (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 toward 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 ¥49,755.- (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 ¥35,337.- (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 ¥6,237.- (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.