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

McOuat, Gordon / Stewart, Larry (eds.), Spaces of Enlightenment Science. (Knowledge Infrastructure and Knowledge Economy 8) 212 pp. 2022:1 (Brill, NE) <666-53>
ISBN 978-90-04-50121-8 hard ¥27,306.- (税込) EUR 116.00

Where did we do science in the Enlightenment and why? This volume brings together leading historians of Early Modern science to explore the places, spaces, and exchanges of Enlightenment knowledge production. Adding to our understanding of the "geographies of knowledge", it examines the relationship between "space" and "place", institutions, "objects", and "ideas", showing the ways in which the location of science really matters. Contributors are Robert Iliffe, Victor Boantza, Margaret Carlyle, Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, Trevor H. Levere, Alice Marples, Gordon McOuat, Larry Stewart, Marie Thebaud-Sorger, and Simon Werrett.

I.メサーロシュ著　リヴァイアサンを超えて－国家の批判－
Meszaros, Istvan, Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State. Ed. & intro. by J. B. Foster. 512 pp. 2022:2 (Monthly Review, US) <666-54>
ISBN 978-1-58367-950-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-1-58367-949-4 paper ¥7,330.- (税込) US$ 34.00 *

Suitner, Riccarda, The Dialogues of the Dead of the Early German Enlightenment. Tr. by G. Goldbloom. (Brill's Series in Church History 83) 293 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-55>
ISBN 978-90-04-45453-8 hard ¥28,483.- (税込) EUR 121.00 *

For the first time, this book reconstructs the fascinating story of a series of anonymous "dialogues of the dead" published in Germany in the early eighteenth century. The texts stage fictional debates between some of the most famous thinkers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, such as Descartes, Leibniz, Thomasius and Bekker. The dialogues were originally published as cheap prints and very few copies now survive; until today the links between these texts and the very existence of this textual corpus have remained unknown. Starting from the little reliable information available, Riccarda Suitner conducts an exciting investigation of the authors, production, illustrations, circulation and plagiarism of these texts in the intellectual world of the early eighteenth century, proposing a new image of the German Enlightenment. The German edition of this book was awarded the prestigious Geisteswissenschaften international prize.

Franco, Paul, Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human. 200 pp. 2021:9 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <666-52>
ISBN 978-0-226-80030-1 hard ¥8,192.- (税込) US$ 38.00 *

In Rousseau, Nietzsche, and the Image of the Human, Paul Franco examines the relationship between Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Friedrich Nietzsche, arguably the two most influential shapers and explorers of the moral and cultural imagination of late modernity. Both thinkers leveled radical critiques of modern life, but those critiques differed in important respects. Whereas Rousseau focused on the growing inequality of modern society and the hypocrisy, self-division, and loss of civic virtue it spawned, Nietzsche decried the democratic equality he identified with Rousseau and the loss of individual and cultural greatness it entailed. Franco argues, however, that Rousseau and Nietzsche are more than mere critics; they both put forward powerful alternative visions of how we ought to live. Franco focuses specifically on their views of the self and its realization, their understandings of women and the relation between the sexes, and their speculative conceptions of politics. While there are many similarities in their positive visions, Franco argues that it is the differences between them from which we have most to learn.

Beiderbeck, Friedrich / Gantet, Claire (Hrsg.), Wissenskulturen in der Leibniz-Zeit: Konzepte - Praktiken - Vermittlung. (Cultures and Practices of Knowledge in History 9) 330 S. 2021:6 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <666-49>
ISBN 978-3-11-073534-5 hard ¥18,819.- (税込) EUR 79.95 *

Der Universalgelehrte Leibniz war ein herausragendes Mitglied eines fruehmodernen Netzwerkes, das aus vielfaeltigen internationalen Gelehrtenkreise bestand. Amtstraeger aus Politik und Gesellschaft praesentierten, diskutierten und modifizierten neuartiges Wissen und nahmen damit an der zukunftstraechtigen Entwicklung teil. Die Beitraege des Bandes erhellen, wie auf diese Weise der Naehrboden fuer eine fruehneuzeitliche Oeffentlichkeit geschaffen wurde.

Branchi, Andrea, Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 334) 220 pp. 2021:12 (Brill, NE) <666-50>
ISBN 978-90-04-19451-9 hard ¥20,950.- (税込) EUR 89.00 *

In Pride, Manners, and Morals: Bernard Mandeville's Anatomy of Honour Andrea Branchi offers a reading of the Anglo-Dutch physician and thinker's philosophical project from the hitherto neglected perspective of his lifelong interest in the theme of honour. Through an examination of Mandeville's anatomy of early eighteenth-century beliefs, practices and manners in terms of motivating passions, the book traces the development of his thought on human nature and the origin of sociability. By making honour and its roots in the desire for recognition the central thread of Mandeville's theory of society, Andrea Branchi offers a unified reading of his work and highlights his relevance as a thinker far beyond the moral problem of commercial societies, opening up new perspectives in Mandeville's studies.

Fikri Alican, Necip, Mill's Principle of Utility: Origins, Proof, and Implications. Rev. & Enlarged ed. (Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy, Literature, and Politics 366) 414 pp. 2022:1 (Brill, NE) <666-51>
ISBN 978-90-04-50387-8 hard ¥38,841.- (税込) EUR 165.00 *

Mill's Principle of Utility: Origins, Proof, and Implications is a defense of John Stuart Mill's utilitarianism with a particular emphasis on his proof of the principle of utility. Supplemented by a comprehensive historical background as well as salient philosophical assumptions and implications, its primary contribution is an analysis, interpretation, and defense of the controversial proof, which has yet to attract a scholarly consensus on how it works and whether it succeeds. The overarching aim of the book is the vindication of Mill's reasoning in the proof and the restoration of his reputation as one of the clearest thinkers of his time.