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

欧州啓蒙思想を形成した書物－12の事例研究における歴史
Kates, Gary, The Books that Made the European Enlightenment: A History in 12 Case Studies. (Cultures of Early Modern Europe) 400 pp. 2022:9 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <677-6>
ISBN 978-1-350-27764-9 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-27765-6 paper ¥7,404.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

In contrast to traditional Enlightenment studies that focus solely on authors and ideas, Gary Kates' employs a literary lens to offer a wholly original history of the period in Europe from 1699 to 1780. Each chapter is a biography of a book which tells the story of the text from its inception through to the revolutionary era, with wider aspects of the Enlightenment era being revealed through the narrative of the book's publication and reception. Here, Kates joins new approaches to book history with more traditional intellectual history by treating authors, publishers, and readers in a balanced fashion throughout. Using a unique database of 18th-century editions representing 5,000 titles, the book looks at the multifaceted significance of bestsellers from the time. It analyses key works by Voltaire, Adam Smith, Madame de Graffigny, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and David Hume and champions the importance of a crucial innovation of the age: the rise of the 'erudite blockbuster', which for the first time in European history, helped to popularize political theory among a large portion of the middling classes. Kates also highlights how, when, and why some of these books were read in the European colonies, as well as incorporating the responses of both ordinary men and women as part of the reception histories that are so integral to the volume.

山田鋭夫著　内田義彦における市民社会と社会科学
Yamada, Toshio, Civil Society and Social Science in Yoshihiko Uchida. 117 pp. 2022:5 (Springer, GW) <677-15>
ISBN 978-981-19-1137-8 hard ¥23,536.- (税込) EUR 99.99 *

This book introduces the work of Yoshihiko Uchida (1913-1989), one of the most prominent Japanese thinkers on the topic of civil society in the post-World War II era. The distinctive features of Uchida's approach to civil society are his view of the metabolic relationship between human beings and nature and his call for a social science rooted in the experiences and inquiries of ordinary citizens. This original approach did not develop in a straight line from Uchida's early work to his mature period, and this book follows the twists and turns in its formation through his reflections on the relationships between "the civil" and "the capitalistic," "the modern" and "the pre-modern," "the historical" and "the trans-historical," and "science by specialists" and "inquiry by laypeople." As a historian of economic thought, Uchida pursued these topical themes by examining figures such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and Hajime Kawakami, a prominent thinker in Japan. By casting a light on these inquiries, this book offers the first depiction of Uchida's body of work as a whole and in doing so illuminates the emergence of original democratic thought in post-war Japan.

Y.C.ザルカ他編　ホッブズ－支配と抵抗の間の権力
Zarka, Yves Charles / Pang, Liang (dir.), Hobbes: le pouvoir entre domination et resistance. (Hobbes supplementa) 152 p. 2022:3 (Vrin, FR) <677-16>
ISBN 978-2-7116-3053-0 paper ¥4,237.- (税込) EUR 18.00 *

Schmale, Wolfgang, Gesellschaftliche Orientierung: Geschichte der "Aufklaerung" in der globalen Neuzeit (19. bis 21. Jahrhundert). (Historische Mitteilungen, Beiheft 103) 379 S. 2021:11 (F. Steiner, GW) <677-14>
ISBN 978-3-515-13168-1 hard ¥16,948.- (税込) EUR 72.00 *

Die Aufklaerung des 18. Jahrhunderts ist auch im 21. Jahrhundert noch immer relevant. Sie fungiert als humane gesellschaftliche Orientierung in einer Welt, die aus den Fugen geraet. Diese gesellschaftliche Orientierung zu geben, war schon immer das Ziel der Aufklaerung ? dabei war sie jedoch jederzeit fundamentaler Kritik ausgesetzt. Das Potenzial der Aufklaerung, der Gesellschaft in Zeiten von Krisen, Kriegen und Terror eine Leitlinie zu geben, entwickelte sich gerade im Zusammenhang mit solcher Kritik. Wolfgang Schmale geht diesem historischen Prozess seit dem fruehen 19. Jahrhundert nach und legt ein besonderes Augenmerk auf die Intellektuellen von Hegel bis Foucault und J. I. Israel. Mit methodischen Ansaetzen der Digital Humanities analysiert er die Aufklaerung globalgeschichtlich. Sie erweist sich, so wie sie gegenwaertig meistens verstanden wird, als zukunftsfaehige Lebenswissenschaft, die auch Fundamentalkritik standhaelt.

Rode, Iris de, Francois-Jean de Chastellux (1734-1788): un soldat-philosophe dans le monde atlantique a l'epoque des Lumieres. (Les dix-huitiemes siecles 219) 738 p. 2022:3 (Champion, FR) <677-13>
ISBN 978-2-7453-5684-0 paper ¥22,363.- (税込) EUR 95.00