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

Shelford, April G., A Caribbean Enlightenment: Intellectual Life in the British and French Colonial Worlds, 1750-1792. (Ideas in Context) 350 pp. 2023:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-60>
ISBN 978-1-00-936080-7 hard ¥28,490.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

Exploring the intersection of Enlightenment ideas and colonial realities amongst White, male colonists in the eighteenth-century French and British Caribbean, A Caribbean Enlightenment recovers a neglected aspect of the region's history. Physicians to planters, merchants to publishing entrepreneurs were as inspired by ideologies of utility and improvement as their metropolitan counterparts, and they adapted 'enlightened' ideas and social practices to understand their place in the Atlantic World. Colonists collected botanical specimens for visiting naturalists and books for their personal libraries. They founded periodicals that created arenas for the discussion and debate of current problems. They picked up the pen to complain about their relationship with the home country. And they read to make sense of everything from parenting to personal salvation, to their new societies and the enslaved Africans on whom their prosperity depended. Ultimately, becoming 'enlightened' was a colonial identity that rejected metropolitan stereotypes of Caribbean degeneracy while validating the power to enslave on a cultural basis.

Berger, Guenter (Hrsg.), Apostel des Friedens: Die Korrespondenz zwischen Wilhelmine von Bayreuth und Voltaire. 104 S. 2023:3 (Duncker, GW) <700-52>
ISBN 978-3-428-18703-4 paper ¥5,860.- (税込) EUR 24.90 *

≫Apostles of Peace. The Correspondence between Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Voltaire≪: Even if the 46 letters written by Wilhelmine of Bayreuth and Voltaire between 1741 and 1758 may not seem an abundant correspondence it offers nonetheless valuable insights into the exchange of letters as a common interest of the partners. Indeed the dominant common interest during the last period of this correspondence (1756 to 1758) was to reach peace between Prussia and France in the Seven Years’ War.

Dommanget, Maurice, Sylvain Marechal, The Godless Man. (Historical Materialism Book Series 287) 464 pp. 2023:7 (Brill, NE) <700-53>
ISBN 978-90-04-54394-2 hard ¥35,545.- (税込) EUR 151.00 *

The first book by the great French radical historian Maurice Dommanget (1888-1976) to be translated into English, this book is an engaging, sympathetic telling of the life and works of Sylvain Marechal (1750-1803), an unjustly forgotten figure of the French Revolutionary era. Marechal was not only a militant atheist and opponent of royalty, but, as the author of the Manifesto of the Equals he laid the groundwork for modern communism. With an introduction by Jean-Numa Ducange.

J.ロック書簡集　第9巻：補遺
Goldie, Mark (ed.), John Locke: Correspondence: Volume IX, Supplement. (Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke) 672 pp. 2023:9 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <700-54>
ISBN 978-0-19-875429-9 hard ¥45,584.- (税込) GB￡ 160.00 *

This is the twenty-first volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of John Locke. The series aims to provide authoritative critical editions of all the writings of one of the most important intellectuals in the early-modern Anglophone world. The present volume completes the Correspondence edited by the late E. S. de Beer, published between 1976 and 1989. It contains some 300 documents: newly discovered or augmented, or newly collected, letters by or to Locke, or between his close associates. New finds have emerged from archives worldwide; previously known letters are now improved from new manuscripts or supplemented by enclosures that had become detached from them; 'epistles dedicatory' in books by Locke or addressed to him are collected; third-party letters with direct bearing on Locke are included; as also Locke's agreements with publishers for the printing of his books. The volume covers Locke's manifold interests, from childrearing to medicine to cartography; from the exercise of patronage to the political economy of England's burgeoning empire; from the management of his Somerset tenants to relations with fellow philosopher Damaris Masham; from a trial for heresy to surveillance letters when Locke was suspect; from book collecting to calendrical reform. Locke's critics and vindicators are here, attacking and defending his published works. Considerable material has come to light bearing on Locke's encounters with Carolina and policies when a founding member of the Board of Trade and Plantations. The volume is supported by Mark Goldie's introduction and by an extensive explanatory editorial apparatus.

Infantino, Lorenzo, Unintended Consequences and the Social Sciences: An Intellectual History. (New Thinking in Political Economy) 200 pp. 2023:10 (E. Elgar, UK) <700-55>
ISBN 978-1-03-531803-2 hard ¥19,943.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *

Illustrating the knowledge and ideas of thinkers such as Mandeville, Hume, Montesquieu and Smith, this book fully investigates the entire panorama of social sciences as well as providing a clear and concise analysis of the history of the social sciences from the point at which evolutionary theory entered the field. Examining the history of culture and humanity, Lorenzo Infantino discusses the 'discovery of society,' when people stopped seeing behind every social phenomenon the direct action of human and/or divine will, and how the subsequent void was filled by the unintended creation of language, habits, customs, laws and public power. Focussing on the idea that the object of social sciences should be the study of unintended consequences, Infantino also expertly reviews the approach of 'methodological individualism'. Forward-thinking, the book highlights the need for a rule of law in cultural evolution to prevent harm to others and allow a greater freedom of choice when deciding future actions. Providing an in-depth explanation of why the social sciences are needed and highlighting the task of a social scientist, this book will be invaluable for researchers in the fields of politics, economics and sociology.

Mijuskovic, Ben Lazare, Theories of Consciousness and the Problem of Evil in the History of Ideas. 228 pp. 2023:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <700-57>
ISBN 978-3-031-26404-7 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

In this book, Ben Lazare Mijuskovic uses both an interdisciplinary and History of Ideas approach to discuss four forms of intertwined theories of human consciousness and reflexive self-consciousness (Plato, Augustine, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, and Hegel; Schopenhauer's subconscious irrational Will; Brentano and Husserl's transcendent intentionality; and Freud's dynamic ego). Mijuskovic explores these theories within the context of psychological issues, where the discussion is undergirded by the conflict between loneliness and intimacy. He also explores them in the context of ethics, where the dynamic is between the values of good and evil. The book historically traces these issues in both a personal as well as a political framework.

A.スミスを解釈する－重要論文集
Sagar, Paul (ed.), Interpreting Adam Smith: Critical Essays. 300 pp. 2023:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <700-58>
ISBN 978-1-00-929631-1 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

2023 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Adam Smith. Long known as the 'father of economics', Smith also produced moral and political writings which have increasingly come to be recognised as major contributions to the Scottish, and indeed wider European, Enlightenment. In this collection of original essays, leading Smith scholars offer fresh perspectives on how to think about Smith's ideas, the nature and importance of his works, and their impact upon subsequent thinkers and ultimately the world we live in. Bringing together both leading experts and some of the most exciting new voices in the field, this collection seeks both to celebrate and deepen our appreciation of what Adam Smith has to teach us.

Sharpe, Matthew, The Other Enlightenment: Self-Estrangement, Race, and Gender. (Off the Fence: Morality, Politics and Society) 194 pp. 2023:3 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <700-59>
ISBN 978-1-5381-6021-3 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

Challenging widespread misunderstandings, this book shows that central to key enlightenment texts was the practice of estranging taken-for-granted prejudices by adopting the perspective of Others.The enlightenment's key progenitors, led by Montesquieu, Voltaire and Diderot, were more empiricist than rationalist, and more critical than utopian. Moreover, each was an artful exponent of the 'proto-postmodernist' practice of asking Europeans to review what they considered unquestionable through the eyes of Others: Persians, women, Tahitians, Londoners, natives and naives, the blind, and even imaginary extra-terrestrials. This book aims to show that this self-estrangement, as a means to gain critical distance from one's taken-for-granted assumptions, was central to the enlightenment, and remains vital for critical and constructive sociopolitical thinking today.

啓蒙思想史事典　第2版
Israel, Jonathan, Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment. 2nd ed. (Historical Dictionaries of Religions, Philosophies, and Movements) 398 pp. 2023:3 (Rowman & Littlefield, US) <700-10>
ISBN 978-1-5381-2313-3 hard ¥37,730.- (税込) US$ 175.00 *

Given the huge advances achieved by research regarding many aspects of the Enlightenment over the past several decades there is certainly a crying need for a one-volume dictionary to serve as guide to the main Enlightenment writers, thinkers, publicists and educators, the Enlightenment's key labels, conceptual terms, categories and currents of thought, and to the titles of the most important projects, enactments and initiatives.Historical Dictionary of the Enlightenment, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 300 cross-referenced entries. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Enlightenment.