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

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.