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

R.ミヘルス、社会主義、近代性
Bonnell, Andrew G., Robert Michels, Socialism, and Modernity. (Oxford Studies in Modern European History) 288 pp. 2023 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <682-741>
ISBN 978-0-19-287184-8 hard ¥27,635.- (税込) GB￡ 97.00 *

Robert Michels (1876-1936) is best known for his 1911 book Political Parties, which is still a standard reference in political science debates. Michels' work sought to prove an "iron law of oligarchy" that governs the organisational evolution of democratic political parties. The work was closely informed by Michels' engagement with the German Social Democratic Party in the early 1900s, his involvement in radical politics in France and Italy in this period, and by his interest in a range of intellectual and social movements - including feminism, nationalism, racial theory, and the emerging disciplines of sociology and political science. Using archival and printed sources hitherto overlooked in work on Michels, this new study contests previous arguments which have sought to explain Michels as a disillusioned adherent of ideas of direct democracy or as an extremist moving from revolutionary syndicalism to fascism. The biographical and intellectual influences on Michels are shown to be more complex, and more transnational, than such schematic explanations have allowed. Andrew Bonnell sheds new light on Michels' relationship with the German Social Democratic Party and on his understanding of his own role as an intellectual in a workers' party. Bonnell also analyses Michels' problematical relationship with revolutionary syndicalism in France and Italy. Michels was connected to a possibly uniquely diverse network of intellectual and political contacts in pre-1914 Europe. This transnational intellectual history illuminates the intellectual worlds in which Michels moved and presents a new interpretation of his shift from the radical left of the spectrum to Italian fascism, an intellectual itinerary which has intrigued many historians.

M.ヴェーバーの宗教社会学における禁欲の概念
Luehrsen, Christian, Der Begriff der Askese in der Religionssoziologie Max Webers. (Soziologische Schriften 87) 331 S. 2022:7 (Duncker, GW) <682-1033>
ISBN 978-3-428-18637-2 paper ¥23,515.- (税込) EUR 99.90 *

≫The Concept of Asceticism in Max Weber’s Sociology of Religion≪: This work is a research on Max Weber’s concept of asceticism and its significance in his sociology of religion. The study elaborates that asceticism is not only a central concept in his studies on religion but also relates to key topics in his whole work as for example conduct and ethics, rationalism, his theory of interpretive sociology, the ideal type, and the so-called disenchantment of the world.