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

I.バーリンとともに人間性について理解する
Lyons, Johnny (ed.), Understanding Humanity with Isaiah Berlin. 300 pp. 2026:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <763-82>
ISBN 978-1-009-62039-0 hard ¥28,946.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The central ideas of Isaiah Berlin (1909-1997) remain as alive for our century as they did for his, and his enduring importance as a thinker is matched by his reputation as an essayist of the first rank. This in-depth exploration of a selection of Berlin's most important essays, discussed by a variety of distinguished contributors, offers a scholarly and engaging appraisal of Berlin's most salient philosophical, historical and political preoccupations while relating them to the broad and persistent questions of philosophy, history, politics and culture. Each of the contributors examines Berlin's understanding of humanity through one of his essays, including 'The Hedgehog and the Fox', 'Two Concepts of Liberty', and 'Winston Churchill in 1940', together with less famous ones such as 'The Divorce between the Sciences and the Humanities' and 'The Purpose of Philosophy'. The result is a fresh, penetrating portrait of a major scholar and public intellectual.

Haller, Max, The Last Invasion: The War in Ukraine - A Sociological Account, Based on Kant's Theory of Peace. (X-Texts on Culture and Society) 326 S. 2025:10 (Transcript, GW) <763-609>
ISBN 978-3-8376-7936-6 hard ¥26,027.- (税込) EUR 99.00

Russia’s attack on Ukraine in 2022 was called a watershed in postwar European history. The West sees Putin’s Russia on the way to restoring the former Soviet Union. But Putin’s increasingly aggressive stance was also a reaction to Western politics. The real possibility of a new security and peace order in Europe opening in the 1990s was not pursued. Instead, NATO was enlarged to the east. Now, a massive arms build-up is on the way. Using historical sources, international news media, representative surveys, and personal interviews with people in Ukraine, Max Haller shows that this war has not been predetermined and ? following Kant ? peace initiatives are possible even now. In these, the European Union should assume a leading role.

Seminck, Vincent, Friendship, Enmity and the Challenges to Liberal Democracy: Agonal, Political and Legal Thinking in Nietzsche and Schmitt. (Law and Politics) 294 pp. 2026:4 (Routledge, UK) <763-28>
ISBN 978-1-041-07591-2 hard ¥47,228.- (税込) GB￡ 155.00

This book describes, evaluates and compares the ideas of conflict, friendship and enmity in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche and Carl Schmitt.What can we learn from Nietzsche's and Schmitt's ideas of friendship and enmity in the light of the dangerous challenges facing Western democracies today? Nietzsche and Schmitt are undoubtedly among the most influential Continental thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and their influence extends far beyond their own time. Schmitt's thinking has been particularly influential in the field of constitutional law and jurisprudence, and it still resounds today in debates about popular sovereignty and the rule of law. This book analyses the ambiguous character of both Nietzsche's agonal and Schmitt's political thinking, in order to consider its implications for current debates about law and politics, and to strengthen liberal democracy. Ultimately, the book thinks with Nietzsche against Schmitt to transform political into agonal conflict, friendship and enmity. This can be achieved, it argues, by channelling hostile passions, through the cultivation of mutual respect between legitimate opponents, into the legal and social discourses, practices and institutions of a liberal democratic rule-of-law state.This book will appeal to scholars working in the areas of legal and political theory, as well as those with relevant interests in continental philosophy.

プラトンとアリストテレスにおける政治的統一
Warren, James, Political Unity in Plato and Aristotle. 208 pp. 2026:6 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <763-25>
ISBN 978-0-19-889832-0 hard ¥24,680.- (税込) GB￡ 81.00

Plato and Aristotle both think that for humans to live full and flourishing lives, we must live together in political communities. They are therefore interested in their various ways in which the people in any given political community relate to one another, how they respond to or value one another, and how they conceive of their good in relation to their fellow citizens. Plato and Aristotle think that instilling and maintaining the correct beliefs and attitudes (such as 'solidarity', 'like-mindedness', and 'friendship') among the citizens is the most important mechanism to ensure that the city is 'one' and resistant to internal strife, factionalism, and perhaps the eventual dissolution of the community. This study is an investigation of the various ways in which Plato and Aristotle approach the question of political unity, how their views differ from and are alike one another, and the ways in which their views matter for continuing discussions. James Warren investigates their arguments for what kinds of relationships are important and how citizens should relate to and think about one another, work together, and feel as part of a single unified political community.

Contogeorgis, Georges, La theorie des revolutions chez Aristote. (Ouverture philosophique. Bibliotheque) 329 p. 2025:11 (L'Harmattan, FR) <763-16>
ISBN 978-2-336-57704-3 paper ¥8,938.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Albertson, David / Blakely, Jason, Utopia for Our Century: A Manifesto of Hope. 160 pp. 2026:9 (Yale U. Pr., US) <763-11>
ISBN 978-0-300-27808-8 hard ¥6,732.- (税込) US$ 30.00

Inspired by the humanist and Catholic martyr Thomas More, David Albertson and Jason Blakely imagine a new politics of hope In Thomas More's Utopia, a traveler from the New World delivers a shocking message: on a lost island beyond the horizon, people live far better lives than in Europe. A leading intellectual of his day, More was murdered by Henry VIII in 1535 for refusing to sign a loyalty oath, but his utopian vision inspired some of the most consequential movements in the modern world. In their provocative manifesto, David Albertson and Jason Blakely retrieve More's insights and apply them to our moment. Amid the decline of liberalism and the rise of authoritarianism, Albertson and Blakely resist the dystopian fears taking root in the twenty-first century. Utopian politics, they argue, can help us break free of today's entrenched polarities and recast what is possible. They return to the "virtuoso dreamers," ranging from Plato and Saint Augustine to Dorothy Day and Martin Luther King, Jr., who faced dire circumstances yet were buoyed by indestructible hopes. Channeling More's spirit of experimentation, creativity, and levity, their utopianism is invested in making new worlds-the most serious kind of play. Social reality, they remind us, has an irreducible imaginative component. Inviting us to dream more boldly, this book offers a radical alternative to the ecological, political, and spiritual crises that plague our world.