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

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 ¥20,908.- (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 ¥41,948.- (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 ¥23,232.- (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 ¥8,025.- (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.