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

社会・政治理論におけるポピュリズムと重要概念
de la Torre, Carlos / Mazzoleni, Oscar (eds.), Populism and Key Concepts in Social and Political Theory. (Global Populisms) 228 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-870>
ISBN 978-90-04-51225-2 hard ¥27,777.- (税込) EUR 118.00

This volume aims to generate a dialogue between scholarship on populism and social and political theory. It focuses on citizenship, class, gender, cleavages, sovereignty, accountability, participation, leadership, and parties. The volume explores how classical and current theorists developed these categories, how they were used by scholars of populism, and what populism tells us about their heuristic advantages and limitations. The authors of this book have studied populism in Europe, the US, and Latin America from distinct perspectives. The chapters thus focus on experiences in both the Global North and South. Contributors are: Cecilia Biancalana, Paula Diehl, Reinhard Heinisch, Klaudia Koxha, Alfio Mastropaolo, Oscar Mazzoleni, Enrique Peruzzotti, Kenneth M. Roberts, Luis Roniger, and Carlos de la Torre.

Koegst, Lara / Kuehne, Olaf / Edler, Dennis (eds.), Multisensory Landscapes: Theories and Methods. (RaumFragen: Stadt - Region - Landschaft) 240 pp. 2023:8 (Springer VS, GW) <702-1216>
ISBN 978-3-658-40413-0 paper ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book provides a broad view on multisensory landscapes from multiple perspectives. It includes theoretical perspectives as well as case studies. Different theoretical perspectives on landscape emerging from research in the last decades also require a differentiated approach to landscape phenomena, going beyond the visual. For example, a social constructivist approach to the social world foregrounds the processes of negotiating social 'realities'. This is not limited to visual aspects, and is not based on a clear physical measurability with an accompanying (purely quantitative) recording. A phenomenological approach, for example, places the synesthetic experience of landscape at the core of interest. This approach to the topic of multisensory via 'landscape' is obvious for several reasons. Firstly, landscape is created (from a constructivist perspective) through the synthesis of sensory impressions on the basis of social patterns of interpretation and evaluation. Secondly, communication about 'landscape' is also accessible to people who do not have any 'expertlike special knowledge' in this regard. Thirdly, landscape as a changing concept is not only a concept of landscape but also of landscape itself. Fourthly, landscape as a changeable concept is particularly suitable for conceptually framing the highly fleeting non-visual stimuli.

M.S.アーチャー著　形態生成論がその批判に答える
Archer, Margaret S., Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics. 2023:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1226>
ISBN 978-1-00-940541-6 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

In this final book by renowned sociologist Margaret S. Archer, her groundbreaking morphogenetic approach is defended, refined and extended through a series of engagements with her critics. Archer, a pioneer of critical realism, addresses key debates surrounding her work on structure, agency, and social change. Each chapter responds to critiques from a different scholar, using these exchanges as springboards to further develop her powerful explanatory framework. Through these lively dialogues, Archer elaborates her tools for analysing social and cultural dynamics. This book offers readers a unique window into Archer's thought as she clarifies, sharpens and expands her theoretical contributions in response to constructive criticism. It will be an essential read for scholars and students across the social sciences, and for anyone seeking to understand the forces that shape our social world and how we can reshape it.

Borghini, Andrea (ed.), Beyond Dogmatism: Studies in Historical Sociology. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 261) 283 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-1227>
ISBN 978-90-04-67805-7 hard ¥32,720.- (税込) EUR 139.00

フレイレとイリイチ再考
Bruno-Jofre, Rosa / Attridge, M. / Zaldivar, J. I. (eds.), Rethinking Freire and Illich: Historical, Philosophical, and Theological Perspectives. 360 pp. 2023:10 (U. Toronto Pr., CN) <702-1228>
ISBN 978-1-4875-5043-1 hard ¥14,014.- (税込) US$ 65.00 *

Marking the fiftieth anniversary of two of the most influential books in modern educational and social theory, Rethinking Freire and Illich introduces readers to the results of the symposium of Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed and Ivan Illich's Deschooling Society. The collection uniquely analyses Freire and Illich together, although not in a comparative way. It acknowledges that both Freire and Illich led in different ways to a new approach to perceiving and understanding the concept of liberation as a human condition, while also presenting current criticisms of their work from a gendered perspective and by Indigenous scholars in the US and Canada. Drawing on contributions from historians of education, theologians, digital experts, and philosophers of education, the book offers a historical analysis using extensive primary sources and an originality of topics. It introduces the ways in which the current generation reads the overall works of Freire and Illich in the search for a reconstructed democratic education. As a result, Rethinking Freire and Illich presents Freire and Illich in light of contemporary issues in this generation, and offers renewed searches for a good and just life and a reconstructed democratic education.

Ince, Anthony / Barrera de la Torre, Geronimo, Society Despite the State: Reimagining Geographies of Order. (Radical Geography) 176 pp. 2024:2 (Pluto Pr., UK) <702-1231>
ISBN 978-0-7453-4124-8 paper ¥7,119.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

'An accessible, expansive and beautifully written intervention in critical social theory' Alex Prichard, Associate Professor of International Political Theory, University of Exeter The logic of the state has come to define social and spatial relations, embedding itself into our understandings of the world and our place in it. Anthony Ince and Geronimo Barrera de la Torre challenge this logic as the central pivot around which knowledge and life orbit, by exposing its vulnerabilities, contradictions and, crucially, alternatives. Society Despite the State disrupts the dominance of state-centred ways of thinking by presenting a radical political geography approach inspired by anarchist thought and practice. The book draws on a broad range of voices that have affinities with Western anarchism but also exceed it. This book challenges radicals and scholars to confront and understand the state through a way of seeing and a set of intellectual tools that the authors call 'post-statism' In de-centring the state's logics and ways of operating, the authors incorporate a variety of threads to identify alternative ways to understand and challenge statism's effects on our political imaginations.

Nassehi, Armin, Gesellschaftliche Grundbegriffe: Ein Glossar der oeffentlichen Rede. 384 S. 2023:9 (Beck, GW) <702-1233>
ISBN 978-3-406-80767-1 hard ¥7,037.- (税込) EUR 29.90 *

Armin Nassehi legt in seinem neuen Buch ein Glossar der oeffentlichen Rede in Deutschland vor. Die von ihm ausgewaehlten, aufeinander verweisenden gesellschaftlichen Grundbegriffe haben eines gemein: Sie stammen aus dem akademischen Kontext, haben diesen aber laengst verlassen und sind im aktuellen oeffentlichen Diskurs angekommen. Aber was bedeutet eigentlich das, worueber heute jede:r spricht? Einer der bedeutendsten Soziologen der Gegenwart klaert auf und gibt fuer die Debatten der Gegenwart das noetige Ruestzeug an die Hand. Zu den von Nassehi behandelten gesellschaftlichen Grundbegriffen zaehlen: Demokratie Freiheit Fremdheit Gesellschaft Gleichheit/Ungleichheit Handeln Identitaet Kommunikation Konflikt Krise Kritik Kultur Lebenswelt Macht Natur Oeffentlichkeit Populismus Wissen

G.Preyer他著　次の社会の社会学
Preyer, Gerhard / Krausse, Reuss-Markus, Sociology of the Next Society: Multiple Modernities, Glocalization and Membership Order. (Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives) 229 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <702-1234>
ISBN 978-3-031-29139-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This innovative volume provides insight into the vast changes in societies now and in the near future, and highlights the need for a new sociological approach to analyse these changes. It particularly reviews and critiques existing theories of globalization and analyses how global changes affect all subsystems of social membership systems: the scientific, academic, legal and political systems. The authors propose a new theoretical paradigm in sociology to analyse this "next society". The book studies emergent communication structures between these systems and looks at the concept of membership as a new research area in the study of the next society. In this context, it particularly assesses the problems of further modernization of Chinese society, and the directions of this modernization.This book is of interest to researchers and students of social theory, globalization studies, theory of evolution, and those studying modern Chinese society.

Hitlin, Steven / Dromi, Shai M. / Luft, Aliza (eds.), Handbook of the Sociology of Morality. Volume 2. (Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research) 454 pp. 2023:7 (Springer, GW) <702-127>
ISBN 978-3-031-32021-7 hard ¥54,138.- (税込) EUR 229.99

This handbook articulates how sociology can re-engage its roots as the scientific study of human moral systems, actions, and interpretation. This second volume builds on the successful original volume published in 2010, which contributed to the initiation of a new section of the American Sociological Association (ASA), thus growing the field. This volume takes sociology back to its roots over a century ago, when morality was a central topic of work and governance. It engages scholars from across subfields in sociology, representing each section of the ASA, who each contribute a chapter on how their subfield connects to research on morality. This reference work appeals to broader readership than was envisaged for the first volume, as the relationship between sociology as a discipline and its origins in questions of morality is further renewed. The volume editors focus on three areas: the current state of the sociology of morality across a range of sociological subfields; taking a new look at some of the issues discussed in the first handbook, which are now relevant in sometimes completely new contexts; and reflecting on where the sociology of morality should go next. This is a must-read reference for students and scholars interested in topics of morality, ethics, altruism, religion, and spirituality from across the social science.