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.バーク、Q.スキナー編　人文・社会科学における歴史
Bourke, Richard / Skinner, Quentin (eds.), History in the Humanities and Social Sciences. 400 pp. 2022:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-20>
ISBN 978-1-00-923104-6 hard ¥19,939.- (税込) GB￡ 69.99 *
ISBN 978-1-00-923100-8 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

This interdisciplinary volume explores the relationship between history and a range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: economics, political science, political theory, international relations, sociology, philosophy, law, literature and anthropology. The relevance of historical approaches within these disciplines has shifted over the centuries. Many of them, like law and economics, originally depended on self-consciously historical procedures. These included the marshalling of evidence from past experience, philological techniques and source criticism. Between the late nineteenth and the middle of the twentieth century, the influence of new methods of research, many indebted to models favoured by the natural sciences, such as statistical, analytical or empirical approaches, secured an expanding intellectual authority while the hegemony of historical methods declined in relative terms. In the aftermath of this change, the essays collected in History in the Humanities and Social Sciences reflect from a variety of angles on the relevance of historical concerns to representative disciplines as they are configured today.

Hampton, Alexander J. B. (ed.), Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi and the Ends of the Enlightenment: Religion, Philosophy, and Reason at the Crux of Modernity. 350 pp. 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-21>
ISBN 978-1-00-924494-7 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

Friedrich Jacobi held a position of unparalleled importance in the golden age of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century intellectual history. Nonetheless, the range and style of his thought and its expression has always posed interpretative challenges that continue to hinder his reception. This volume introduces and evaluates Jacobi's pivotal place in the history of ideas. It explores his role in catalyzing the close of the Enlightenment through his critique of reason, how he shaped the reception of Kant's critical philosophy and the subsequent development of German idealism, his effect on the development of Romanticism and religion through his emphasis on feeling, and his influence in shaping the emergence of existentialism. This volume serves as an authoritative resource for one of the most important yet underappreciated figures in modern European intellectual history. It also recasts our understanding of Fichte, Hegel, Kierkegaard, and others in light of his influence and impact.

社会病理学を診断する－ルソー、ヘーゲル、マルクス、デュルケーム
Neuhouser, Frederick, Diagnosing Social Pathology: Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim. 395 pp. 2022:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-22>
ISBN 978-1-00-923503-7 hard ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

Can a human society suffer from illness like a living thing? And if so, how does such a malaise manifest itself? In this thought-provoking book, Fred Neuhouser explains and defends the idea of social pathology, demonstrating what it means to describe societies as 'ill', or 'sick', and why we are so often drawn to conceiving of social problems as ailments or maladies. He shows how Rousseau, Hegel, Marx, and Durkheim - four key philosophers who are seldom taken to constitute a 'tradition' - deploy the idea of social pathology in comparable ways, and then explores the connections between societal illnesses and the phenomena those thinkers made famous: alienation, anomie, ideology, and social dysfunction. His book is a rich and compelling illumination of both the idea of social disease and the importance it has had, and continues to have, for philosophical views of society.

Rist, Anna / Rist, John, Confusion in the West: Retrieving Tradition in the Modern and Post-Modern World. 275 pp. 2022:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-23>
ISBN 978-1-00-921837-5 hard ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

In their trenchant panoramic overview - ranging from antiquity to the present-day - John and Anna Rist write with authority and ennui about nothing less than the loss of the foundational culture of the West. The authors characterize this culture as the 'original tradition', viewing its erosion as one which has led to anxiety about the entire value of Western thought. The causes of the disintegration are discussed with an intensity rare in academe. Critics of modernity ordinarily concentrate on the Enlightenment and the book certainly offers deep analysis of Enlightenment thought. But it goes further. Thus the cruelty of modern totalitarianism is now depicted as in the spirit of the French Revolution and its implacable hostility to a vanished primordial heritage, while scientism, bureaucracy and consumerism appear as the only rivals to a threatening nihilism. The book argues that Western thought has created a set of conflicting moral and spiritual customs: to the detriment of coherence, in individual minds as in society and culture.

Sedgwick, Mark, Traditionalism: The Radical Project for Restoring Sacred Order. 208 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-24>
ISBN 978-0-19-768376-7 hard ¥6,457.- (税込) US$ 29.95 *

ベンサムの『道徳および立法の諸原理序説』－案内
Sverdlik, Steven, Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation: A Guide. (Oxford Guides to Philosophy) 352 pp. 2023 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <686-25>
ISBN 978-0-19-008990-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-19-008991-7 paper ¥6,681.- (税込) US$ 30.99 *

Bentham's An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is often considered the first work of the philosophical school of utilitarianism and is thus a vital text for students of philosophy. In this comprehensive guide to the text, Steven Sverdlik provides an entry point into this important work, examining the text in its entirety and highlighting its central claims and their relevance to contemporary discussions in a variety of fields. Sverdlik works through the chapters of Bentham's text sequentially, explaining and evaluating the work's main themes. The Guide emphasizes Bentham's original goal of introducing a utilitarian penal code. Sverdlik explains Bentham's fundamental moral claims and principles: the principle of utility, his hedonistic theory of intrinsic value, and his claims about the measurement of pleasure and pain. Bentham also discusses at length human action, motivation, and decision. Sverdlik discusses these ideas in general terms, and then examines how Bentham applies them in the context of penal or criminal law. All of this lays the groundwork for a careful discussion of Bentham's treatment of the deterrence of potential offenders, the punishment of convicted offenders, and the criminalization of various types of behavior. By restating Bentham's arguments in contemporary philosophical terms, Sverdlik allows readers to see how his thinking connects to current debates about the criminal justice system. This guide provides a systematic contemporary overview of Bentham's Introduction that will be valuable to undergraduate philosophy students, as well as students and scholars with a working knowledge of basic philosophy who are interested in criminal law, moral philosophy, and moral psychology.

モンテスキュー－啓蒙思想あれ
Volpilhac-Auger, Catherine, Montesquieu: Let There Be Enlightenment. 262 pp. 2023:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <686-26>
ISBN 978-1-00-924909-6 hard ¥8,543.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99 *

Since the last biography of Montesquieu in English (Shackleton, Oxford, 1961) Montesquieu scholarship has been entirely renewed, culminating in a critical edition of his complete works in twenty-two volumes that is nearing completion. Since 1998, this new edition of the complete works has considerably modified what was known about Montesquieu and his procedures, eliciting new translations and further studies. Additionally, several thousand manuscript pages were made public in 1994 and continue to generate further scholarly inquiry. The author of this compact biography, originally published by Gallimard 2017, is the director of the critical edition of the works and the most qualified scholar of Montesquieu. At once an introduction to Montesquieu's thought and a synthesis of current knowledge about his life and work, this book is full of insights and revised judgements about Montesquieu and how his political philosophy helped thrust Enlightenment onto the European agenda.