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

Margel, Serge, On Imposture: Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Literary Lies, and Political Fiction. Tr. by E. Yampolsky. (Studies in Continental Thought) 88 pp. 2023 (Indiana U. Pr., US) <698-17>
ISBN 978-0-253-06529-2 hard ¥8,976.- (税込) US$ 40.00 *

Imposture is an abuse of power. It is the act of lying for one's own benefit, of disguising the truth in order to mislead. For Jean-Jacques Rousseau, however, imposture is first and foremost power itself. In On Imposture, French philosopher Serge Margel explores imposture within Rousseau's Discourses, Confessions, and Emile. For Rousseau, taking power, using it, or abusing it are ultimately one and the same act. Once there's power, and someone grants themselves the means, the right, and the authority to force another's beliefs or actions, there is imposture. According to Rousseau, imposture can be found through human history, society, and culture. Using a deconstructionist method in the classic manner of Derrida, On Imposture explores Rousseau's thought concerning imposture and offers a unique analysis of its implications for politics, civil society, literature, and existentialist thought.

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Shrank, Cathy / Withington, Phil (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Thomas More's Utopia. (Oxford Handbooks) 784 pp. 2023:7 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <698-18>
ISBN 978-0-19-888101-8 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

Thomas More's Utopia is one of the most iconic, translated, and influential texts of the European Renaissance. This Handbook of specially commissioned and original essays brings together for the first time three different ways of thinking about the book: in terms of its renaissance contexts, its vernacular translations, and its utopian legacies. It has been developed to allow readers to consider these different facets of Utopia in relation to each other and to provide fresh and original contributions to our understanding of the book's creation, vernacularization, and afterlives. In so doing, it provides an integrated overview of More's text, as well as new contributions to the range of scholarship and debates that Utopia continues to attract. An especially innovative feature is that it allows readers to follow Utopia across time and place, unpacking the often-revolutionary moments that encouraged its translation by new generations of writers as far afield as France, Russia, Japan, and China. The Handbook is organized in four sections: on different aspects of the origins and contexts of Utopia in the 1510s; on histories of its translation into different vernaculars in the early modern and modern eras; and on various manifestations of utopianism up to the present day. The Handbook's Introduction outlines the biography of More, the key strands of interpretation and criticism relating to the text, the structure of the Handbook, and some of its recurring themes and issues. An appendix provides an overview of Utopia for readers new to the text.

Smith, Adam, Philosophische Schriften. Hrsg. von N. Paulo. (stw 2400) 400 S. 2023:5 (Suhrkamp, GW) <698-19>
ISBN 978-3-518-30000-8 paper ¥5,834.- (税込) EUR 24.00

Der schottische Philosoph und Aufklaerer Adam Smith (1723-1790) ist vor allem als Autor von The Wealth of Nations und damit als Wegbereiter der Oekonomie bekannt. Als Philosoph steht er dagegen bis heute im Schatten seines Freundes David Hume. Anlaesslich seines 300. Geburtstags rueckt der Band Smiths philosophisches Denken in den Mittelpunkt. Er enthaelt neben seinen bekannten oekonomischen Texten Auszuege der zentralen philosophischen Schriften zu Moral, Politik, Recht und Aesthetik ? einige davon erstmals in deutscher Uebersetzung ? und erlaubt so, ihn als Philosoph neu zu entdecken. Smiths oekonomische Theorie erweist sich so als Teil seines philosophischen Denkens.

Hamilton, James J., Hobbes's Creativity. 291 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <698-16>
ISBN 978-3-031-27732-0 hard ¥29,168.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book approaches Hobbes's philosophy from a completely new perspective: his creativity. Creativity is the production of something which experts consider to be original, valuable and of high quality. James Hamilton explores Hobbes's creativity by focusing on his development, personality, and motivation in the context of his culture and environment, and on the ways in which he thought creatively, as inferred from his writings. Identification of the ideas which Hobbes drew upon is an important part of the study for two reasons. First, they are necessary to determine which of Hobbes's ideas and theories are original and which are not. Second, analysis of his creativity requires an understanding of the ideas from which he drew. Hamilton concludes that Hobbes became a great philosopher because of his creative virtuosity.