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

Bordoni, Carlo, Ethical Violence. 176 pp. 2023:10 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-89>
ISBN 978-1-5095-6101-8 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-6102-5 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

Human civilization is founded on ethical principles, norms of behaviour that have accumulated over time. Perhaps the oldest of ethical principles is the rejection of violence, which includes the respect for life and for the physical and psychological integrity of others. But, in some circumstances, violence itself can be regarded as ethical - for example, when it is used by states claiming to act in self-defence. In these circumstances, the need to defend oneself against an enemy can transform war from an unacceptable act into a necessary, socially shared and morally sanctioned choice. And it is when violence becomes ethical that we must begin to fear for our future. In the wake of the pandemic, we are witnessing the growing prevalence of aggression and emotionality in social and political life. We find ourselves living in an increasingly impatient and insecure society, which is sceptical of scientific thought and which takes refuge in the irrational. The decline of rationality and the growing prevalence of violence are increasingly common features of a society that has lost touch with the great Enlightenment narrative. We need, argues Bordoni, to rediscover the rationality we have lost and recuperate the positive side of technology.

Latour, Bruno, How to Inhabit the Earth: Interviews with Nicolas Truong. Tr. by J. Rose. 112 pp. 2023:10 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-54>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5946-6 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5947-3 paper ¥3,223.- (税込) US$ 14.95 *

In a series of televised interviews broadcast in spring 2022, Bruno Latour explained, in clear and straightforward terms, how humans have changed the planet and why environmental disasters are an intrinsic part of modern life. We have now come to realize that all life depends on a thin skin of our planet that is only few kilometres thick - what scientists call the 'critical zone'. Our capacity to continue to live on a planet we are transforming is now at risk and if we wish to survive as a species, we must put an end to the mechanisms of destruction, rethink our connection to living beings, and face head-on the confrontation between the extractivists who are exploiting the Earth's resources and the ecologists. This poignant reflection on the greatest challenge of our time was also an opportunity for Latour to explain the underlying thread that guided his work throughout his career, from his pathbreaking research on the social construction of scientific knowledge to his last writings on the Anthropocene.

Browne, Craig, Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 240 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-752>
ISBN 978-1-03-241594-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Social Theory and the Political Imaginary: Practice, Critique, and History is an innovative work of synthesis, critique and analysis. It presages a social theory perspective that recognizes the constitutive significance of the political imaginary in modernity. Social theory's current dilemmas are explored through a series of interlinked assessments of recent substantial strands, specifically, Luc Boltanski's pragmatism and the wider 'practical turn,' the perspectives of multiple modernities and global modernity, the outlook of social and political imaginaries and critical social theory. The political imaginary's reconfigurations are evident in the tensions of global modernity, and original social theory interpretations are advanced of landmark instances of twenty-first-century social contestation: the Hong Kong protests conditioned by threats to civil freedoms and a lack of self-determination, the radical democratic practices of anti-austerity movements contesting capitalist globalization's injustices and the inverted cosmopolitanism of the 2005 French Riots challenging the oppression and inequalities experienced by immigrant communities and marginalized youth. These incisive applications of social theory and complementary conceptual innovations illuminate the vicissitudes of social struggles, political forms and theoretical perspectives. Similarly, reflection on the political imaginary is found to enable a necessary rethinking of the interrelationship of practice, critique and history.

D'Eramo, Marco, Masters: The Invisible War of the Powerful Against Their Subjects. Tr. by A. Kilgarriff. 272 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-755>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5743-1 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5744-8 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

From the breweries of Colorado and the faculties of Harvard to the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Marco D'Eramo guides us through the places where a new war has been thought out, planned and financed. It's a real war, though it has been fought silently, without us realizing it. Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, said it best: 'There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class, that's making war, and we're winning'. The revolt from above has affected all fields - not only the economy, but also justice and education. It has twisted our ideas of society, family and ourselves. It has taken advantage of every crisis, whether natural disasters, terrorist attacks, recessions or pandemics. It has used every weapon, from the information revolution to the technology of debt. It has changed the nature of power, from discipline to control. It has learnt from the workers' struggle, using Gramsci and Lenin against them. Maybe the time has come for us to do the same and to learn from our opponents.

T.ヴェスティング著　近代性における自由の文化的基礎
Vesting, Thomas, Subjectivity Transformed: The Cultural Foundation of Liberty in Modernity. 288 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-460>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5335-8 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5336-5 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

This book provides a historically informed reconstruction of the social practices that have shaped the formation of the modern subject from the early modern period to the present. The formal legal protections accorded to subjects are, and always have been, latent in social practices, norms, and language before they are articulated in formal legal orders. Vesting argues that in Western societies legal personhood is closely tied to three ideal types of social personhood - what he calls the gentleman, the manager, and Homo digitalis. By examining these three ideal types and their emergence in society, we can see that Western formal law does not bring these ideal types into being but, on the contrary, they arise from the social and cultural conditions that they generate and reflect. Correspondingly, Western legal personhood, or "legal subjectivity," arises from the history and culture of Western nations, not the other way around. Therefore, signature features of Western formal law, particularly its valorization of the rights of persons (whether natural or nonnatural), come from the particular sociohistorical cultural developments that had already generated the strong ideas of social personhood inherent in the ideal types of the gentleman, the manager, and Homo digitalis. Subjectivity Transformed is a major contribution to legal and social theory and, with its original analysis of the formation of modern subjectivity, it will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences and humanities.

安定性の課題－N.ルーマンの初期の政治社会学と米独における憲法判断
Shulman, Theodor, The Challenge of Stability: Niklas Luhmann's Early Political Sociology and Constitutional Adjudication in the United States and Germany. (Beitraege zum auslaendischen oeffentlichen Recht und Voelkerrecht 322) 230 S. 2023:7 (Nomos, GW) <709-495>
ISBN 978-3-7560-0623-6 hard ¥16,242.- (税込) EUR 69.00 *

Niklas Luhmann's early systems-theoretical conception of functional differentiation holds both normative and empirical insights for our understanding of constitutional adjudication. For example, Luhmann's conception of legal autonomy may help to shed new light on the countermajoritarian difficulty. Secondly, his theory of how the political system is differentiated into two sub-systems can improve our conceptual understanding of judicial politicization. To illustrate this potential, this book applies “Legitimation durch Verfahren” in particular and Luhmann's early systems theory in general to Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court and the United States Supreme Court.

McGarry, Kathryn / Bradley, Ciara / Kirwan, Gloria (eds.), Rights and Social Justice in Research: Advancing Methodologies for Social Change. 272 pp. 2024:1 (Policy Pr., UK) <709-14>
ISBN 978-1-4473-6829-8 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Can our research create conditions for people to flourish? What kinds of questions do we ask about the social world and how knowledge is produced? Does our approach to research itself matter? This edited collection explores and illustrates the nature of research for social justice. Drawing on a diverse range of social research projects, it examines research with and for young people, marginalised communities and those who work to further social justice and human rights goals. Providing key examples of the tools, processes and outcomes of research relevant to social justice, including where and how these frameworks can be used in the design and execution of research, this is a much-needed intervention to social research methodology.

商品化ハンドブック
Bertrand, Elodie / Panitch, Vida (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Commodification. (Routledge International Handbooks) 488 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-168>
ISBN 978-1-03-203737-0 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

Some goods are freely traded as commodities without question or controversy. For other goods, their commodification - their being made available in exchange for money, or their being subject to market valuation and exchange - is hotly contested. "Contested" commodities range from labour and land, to votes, healthcare, and education, to human organs, gametes, and intimate services, to parks and emissions. But in the context of a market economy, what distinguishes these goods as non-commodifiable, or what defines them as contestable commodities? And why should their status as such justify restricting the market choices of rationally consenting parties to otherwise voluntary exchanges?This volume draws together wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research on the legitimate scope of markets and the kinds of goods that should be exempt therefrom. In bringing diverse answers to this question together for the first time, it finally identifies commodification studies as a unique field of scholarly research in its own right. In so doing, it fosters interdisciplinary dialogue, advances scholarship, and enhances education in this controversial, important, and growing field of research. Contemporary theorists who examine this question do so from across the disciplinary spectrum and ground their answers in diverse scholarly literature and divergent methodological approaches. Their arguments will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, economics, law, political science, sociology, policy, feminist theory, and ecology, among others.The contributors to this volume take diverse and divergent positions on the benefits of markets in general and on the possible harms of specific contested markets in particular. While some favour free markets and others regulation or prohibition, and while some engage in more normative and others in more empirical analysis, the contributors all advance nuanced and thoughtful arguments that engage deeply with the complex set of moral and empirical questions at the heart of commodification studies. This volume collects their new and provocative work together for the first time.

階級　第2版
Atkinson, Will, Class. 2nd ed. (Key Concepts) 256 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1052>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5718-9 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5719-6 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Class is not only amongst the oldest and most controversial of all concepts in social science, but also a topic which has fascinated, amused, incensed and galvanized the general public. But what exactly is a 'class'? How do sociologists study and measure it, and how does it correspond to everyday understandings of social difference in the twenty-first century? In a time when inequality has dramatically returned to the social scientific and political agenda, this accessible and lively book explores these questions and more. It takes readers through the key theoretical traditions in class research, the major controversies that have shaken the field and the continuing effects of class difference, class struggle and class inequality across a range of domains. This new edition covers the latest research and scholarship and includes extended discussions of race, the rise of national populism, and the reconfigurations of class in a global age. This book will appeal to students and scholars across the social sciences, and anyone wanting to get a handle on this provocative concept.

〔英訳〕P.ブルデュー著　政治学と社会学－一般社会学　第5巻
Bourdieu, Pierre, Politics and Sociology: General Sociology. Volume 5. Tr. by P. Collier. 304 pp. 2023:10 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1055>
ISBN 978-1-5095-2672-7 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

This is the fifth and final volume based on the lectures given by Pierre Bourdieu at the College de France in the early 1980s under the title 'General Sociology'. In these lectures, Bourdieu sets out to define and defend sociology as an intellectual discipline, and in doing so he introduces and clarifies all the key concepts which have come to define his distinctive intellectual approach. In this volume, Bourdieu develops his view of the social world as the site of a struggle for the legitimate vision of the world. The specific weapon used in these struggles is what Bourdieu calls symbolic capital, which is economic, cultural or social capital when perceived through suitable categories of perception. All forms of power seek to impose their own categories of perception in a way that is both recognised and misrecognised. This is how forms of power establish themselves as legitimate, because legitimacy is a force of recognition based on misrecognition, that is, recognised in a way that prevents us from recognising its arbitrariness. By rejecting the opposition between structuralist objectification and subjectivist constructivism, sociology can seek to grasp both the objective structure of social fields and the properly political strategies that agents use in order to establish and impose their viewpoint. And it can do so without forgetting that the whole world of social construction is oriented by the perception agents have of the social world, which depends on their position in the structures of social fields and their dispositions, themselves fashioned by these structures. An ideal introduction to some of Bourdieu's most important ideas, the five volumes of this series will be of great value to students and scholars who study and use Bourdieu's work across the social sciences and humanities, and they will be of interest to general readers who want to know more about the work of one of the most important sociologists and social thinkers of the twentieth century.

社会化
Darmon, Muriel, Socialization. (Key Concepts) 208 pp. 2023:10 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1057>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5368-6 hard ¥14,003.- (税込) US$ 64.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5369-3 paper ¥4,947.- (税込) US$ 22.95 *

How does society form and transform individuals? Sociology has been asking this question since its inception and "socialization" has been analyzed from different vantage points by various prominent thinkers. Socialization offers an overview of some of these perspectives in the classic work of key theorists and in contemporary research that has either developed or challenged these ideas. The book argues that, while socialization has sometimes been framed as an outdated, static approach, it in fact remains highly relevant and continues to provide valuable insight into how we come to act and think as we do. Drawing on a wide variety of empirical examples, the book offers a lively, accessible account of primary and secondary socialization, and how they interconnect. By considering socialization as a process that continues throughout the life course, the book highlights the dynamic and enduring ways in which the social world is involved in shaping and reshaping individuals, shedding productive light on the effects of class, gender, and race, as well as on inequality and domination. Socialization will appeal to students and scholars in sociology, as well as other disciplines such as psychology and education.

Ketovuori, Mikko, Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society. 168 pp. 2024:3 (Routledge, UK) <709-1059>
ISBN 978-1-03-248069-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-248070-1 paper ¥10,538.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

Socionomics: How Social Mood Shapes Society explores the main principles and applications of socionomic theory as elaborated by Robert Prechter. Socionomic theory posits that an omnipresent social mood, shifting constantly in a wave form through all aspects of society, is responsible for the aggregate tenor and character of all social, economic and cultural trends, from fluctuations in the stock market to the popularity of particular genres of music at a given time.The social mood as an endogenous and collective force has its roots in the herding instinct often identified amongst crowds. Individuals typically make rational decisions when acting alone, and in the context of certainty, but in groups and in context of uncertainty, mood-based mimetic behavior can affect all the participants. As social mood often goes unnoticed, people tend to give their collective feelings labels to rationalize them, thus constituting 'public opinion'. Therefore, whilst 'public opinion' as presented in the media is usually seen as rational, it is in fact based on the social mood context that often determines how people think, feel and behave. As the internet and social media have become ubiquitous in our daily lives, these rationalizations are spreading faster and faster than ever before and creating a pseudo-reality which can corrupt the collective perception of what is real and what is not.This stimulating and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to academics, practitioners and policymakers with an interest in the humanities and social sciences, particularly sociology and economics.

Mutanga, Oliver / Marovah, Tendayi (eds.), Southern Theories: Contemporary and Future Challenges. (Routledge Advances in Sociology) 192 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1062>
ISBN 978-1-03-241597-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book critically explores Global South perspectives, examining marginalised voices and issues whilst challenging the supremacy of Global North perspectives in literature. The unique value of this book lies in its extensive coverage of various Southern challenges, including disaster management, climate change, communication, resilience, gender, education, and disability. It also underscores the relevance of indigenous philosophies such as animism, Buen Vivir, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Neozapatism, Qi vitality, Taoism, and Ubuntu. Stemming from regions as diverse as Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, these philosophies are brought into public discourse. By demonstrating their practicality in designing intervention programs and influencing policy-making, the book fills a critical gap in global Southern literature while promoting context-specific knowledge for improving well-being in the Global South contexts. This book's content resonates with a diverse audience, encompassing students, academics, researchers, NGOs, and policymakers from postcolonial states in the Global South and those from Global North countries.Furthermore, it is highly relevant to communities within the Global North that mirror the Global South - those grappling with equity issues for indigenous populations. It has a versatile appeal that transcends disciplinary boundaries, encompassing cultural studies, sociology, international development, philosophy, and postcolonial studies, thus making it accessible to all educational levels. It holds particular interest for those in development studies, indigenous studies, government departments globally, international organisations, and universities worldwide.

〔英訳〕A.ナセヒ著　パターン－デジタル社会の理論
Nassehi, Armin, Patterns: Theory of the Digital Society. Tr. by M. Wittwar. 268 pp. 2024:2 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1063>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5821-6 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5822-3 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

We are inclined to assume that digital technologies have suddenly revolutionized everything - including our relationships, our forms of work and leisure, and even our democracies - in just a few years. Armin Nassehi puts forward a new theory of digital society that turns this assumption on its head. Rather than treating digital technologies as an independent causal force that is transforming social life, he asks: what problem does digitalization solve? When we pose the question in this way, we can see, argues Nassehi, that digitalization helps societies to deal with and reduce complexity by using coded numbers to process information. We can also see that modern societies had a digital structure long before computer technologies were developed - already in the nineteenth century, for example, statistical pattern recognition technologies were being used in functionally differentiated societies in order to recognize, monitor and control forms of human behaviour. Digital technologies were so successful in such a short period of time and were able to penetrate so many areas of society so quickly precisely because of a pre-existing sensitivity that prepared modern societies for digital development. This highly original book lays the foundations for a theory of the digital society that will be of value to everyone interested in the growing presence of digital technologies in our lives.

Oliveira Costa, Andre, Norbert Elias and Sigmund Freud: The Psychoanalytic Foundations of the Civilizing Process. (Classical and Contemporary Social Theory) 256 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <709-1064>
ISBN 978-1-03-245843-4 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book explores the influence of Freudian psychoanalysis on Norbert Elias' theory of the civilizing process - an influence acknowledged by Elias himself - conducting a dialogue with a view to analyzing points of contact and distance between them. Examining the development of Elias' work, it sheds light on the integration of psychoanalytic concepts in his thought, considering the dynamics that exist between individuals and social processes, as the civilizing process affects the psychic economy of individuals and psychic structures serve to sustain civilization. A genealogical study of Freudian concepts as expressed in the trajectory of Elias's sociology, it will appeal to scholars of sociology and psychology with interests in social and psychoanalytic theory.

Peterson, Jesse D. / Lemos Dekker, Natashe et al. (eds.), Death's Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. (Death and Culture) 192 pp. 2024:1 (Bristol U. Pr., UK) <709-1065>
ISBN 978-1-5292-3014-7 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments. Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes - Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power - this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.

Perez, Amin, Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire: Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle. Tr. by A. Brown. 202 pp. 2023:11 (Polity Pr., UK) <709-1066>
ISBN 978-1-5095-5785-1 hard ¥15,081.- (税込) US$ 69.95 *
ISBN 978-1-5095-5786-8 paper ¥5,810.- (税込) US$ 26.95 *

Pierre Bourdieu and Abdelmalek Sayad met in their twenties in the midst of the Algerian war of independence. From their first meeting, a strong intellectual friendship was born between the French philosopher and the activist from the colony, nourished by the same desire to understand the world in order to change it. The work of both men was driven by the necessity of putting knowledge to use, whether by unveiling the relations of domination that structured life in Algeria or by opening emancipatory perspectives for the Algerian people. Colonies were, of course, a customary site of ethnographic work, but Bourdieu and Sayad refused to sacrifice scientific rigor to political expediency, even as Algeria descended deeper into war. Indeed, the act of understanding as a political commitment to the transformation of society lay at the heart of their project. Based on extensive interviews and deep archival work, Amin Perez rediscovers the anticolonial origins of the pathbreaking social thought of these brilliant thinkers. Bourdieu and Sayad, he argues, forged another way of doing politics, laying the foundations of a revolutionary pedagogy, not just for anticolonial liberation but for true social emancipation.?

Zerubavel, Eviatar, Dont Take It Personally: Personalness and Impersonality in Social Life. 128 pp. 2023:12 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <709-1069>
ISBN 978-0-19-769133-5 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-19-769134-2 paper ¥5,379.- (税込) US$ 24.95 *

Along with the concepts of social role, social group, social network, social class, and social structure, the notion of impersonality is one of the pillars of the sociological imagination: the ability to think beyond individuals and see them as members of particular social categories. Although almost every sociologist is at least implicitly cognizant of the fundamental contrast between personalness and impersonality, it has yet to be explicitly conceptualized. Don't Take It Personally comprehensively addresses the fundamental distinction between the specific and generic visions of personhood. Over the course of the book, Eviatar Zerubavel articulates the fundamental features of impersonality; the process of producing impersonality; the impersonal logic underlying the notion of individuals as countable quantities; the relationship between modernity and impersonality; and considers what is gained and what is lost by impersonalizing so much of social life. Drawing on fascinating examples from diverse social contexts, Don't Take It Personally introduces a general framework to better understand the deeper connection between seemingly disparate phenomena, from racial profiling and hate crimes to "secret Santa" gifting.