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

Dahl, Adam, The Search for World Democracy: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Politics of Space. 272 pp. 2026:4 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <759-623>
ISBN 978-0-226-84675-0 hard ¥25,679.- (税込) US$ 115.00
ISBN 978-0-226-84677-4 paper ¥7,256.- (税込) US$ 32.50

An incisive conceptual history of global democracy in the transnational political thought of W.E.B. Du Bois.The Search for World Democracy traces the language of "world democracy" in W. E. B. Du Bois's oeuvre, stretching from his early sociological writings to his later work on world peace and anticolonialism with and against the United Nations. Drawing on original archival research, several lesser-known writings, and most centrally Du Bois's unpublished 1937 manuscript A World Search for Democracy, Adam Dahl places his unique approach to democratic theory within the transatlantic debates about the transformation of European imperial order in the twentieth century. Dahl shows how Du Bois's vision of the spatial scale of democracy situated struggles for popular control, decolonization, industrial democracy, and racial enfranchisement in their shifting, multidimensional geographic contexts. Less a specific model of global governance than a radical politics of space and scale, Du Bois's idea of world democracy challenges the boundaries between domestic and international politics by linking local sites of democratic struggle within and against the global color line. The Search for World Democracy shows how, for Du Bois, the radical transformation of the United States into a multiracial democracy would require an equally dramatic transformation of the imperial lineages of world politics.

民主主義の思考の起源－古典期アテナイにおける政治の発明　第2版
Farrar, Cynthia, The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens. 2nd ed. (Cambridge Classical Classics) 356 pp. 2026:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <759-624>
ISBN 978-1-009-49295-9 hard ¥26,730.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00
ISBN 978-1-009-49297-3 paper ¥8,316.- (税込) GB￡ 28.00

The Athenians invented democracy - and as they grappled with the implications, they also invented democratic political theory. By reconstruing Protagoras the sophist, Thucydides the historian, and Democritus the cosmologist in the context of political developments and contemporary scientific, literary, and philosophical works, Cynthia Farrar's seminal study reveals the emergence of a distinctive and still cogent understanding of democratic order. All three thinkers wrestled with democracy's insistence on separating political from social identity and status. Unlike Plato and Aristotle, they constructed democratic theories that were genuinely democratic: addressed to citizens, and inviting them to interpret what their own and collective well-being demands in the world as it is. In a new introduction, Farrar makes the case for the continued relevance of the ideas explored in this book by recounting her own attempts to adapt Athenian structures of democratic citizenship and reinterpret their democratic theory for the modern world.

Huguenin, Francois, Le je & le nous: une histoire de la pensee politique, des origines a nos jours. 442 p. 2025:9 (Cerf, FR) <759-625>
ISBN 978-2-204-15782-7 paper ¥6,462.- (税込) EUR 25.00

Melonio, Francoise, Tocqueville. (NRF Biographies) 613 p. 2025:9 (Gallimard, FR) <759-626>
ISBN 978-2-07-012605-7 paper ¥6,979.- (税込) EUR 27.00