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

思想史と概念の変化の問題
Palti, Elias J., Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change. (The Seeley Lectures) 2024:6 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-18>
ISBN 978-1-00-946119-1 hard ¥22,880.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-946121-4 paper ¥7,432.- (税込) GB￡ 25.99 *

How does long-term intellectual change occur? Can we develop a theoretical framework for understanding past systems of knowledge? In this ambitious study, Elias Jose Palti seeks to reassess the main concepts in the field of intellectual history. Evaluating modes of thought from the seventeenth century to the present, this book aims to prevent an anachronistic understanding of the texts of the past. Palti rejects the idea of conceptual change as a coherent process deriving from one single source. Instead, he offers a convincing explanation of converging developments emanating from three different sources: namely, the Cambridge school, the German school of conceptual history, or Begriffsgeschichte, and French politico-conceptual history. Intellectual History and the Problem of Conceptual Change also closely examines the temporality of concepts, questioning how and why political languages mutate.

啓蒙思想の宗教改革－ドイツにおける宗教と哲学　1750～1830年
Printy, Michael, Enlightenment's Reformation: Religion and Philosophy in Germany, 1750-1830. (Ideas in Context) 284 pp. 2024:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-19>
ISBN 978-1-009-49406-9 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

How did we get from the religious core of the sixteenth-century Reformation to the notions of freedom popularised by Hegel and Ranke? Enlightenment's Reformation explores how two key cultural and intellectual achievements - the sixteenth-century Reformation and the late eighteenth-century birth of 'German' philosophy - became fused in public discussion over the course of the 'long' eighteenth century. Michael Printy argues that Protestant theologians and intellectuals recast the meaning of Protestantism as part of a wide-ranging cultural apology aimed at the twin threats of unbelief and deism on the one hand, and against Pietism and a nascent evangelical awakening on the other. The reimagining of the Reformation into a narrative of progress was powerful, becoming part of mainstream German intellectual culture in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Utilising Reformation history, Enlightenment history, and German philosophy, this book explores how the rich if unstable idea linking Protestantism and modern freedom came to dominate German intellectual culture until the First World War.

Saumarez Smith, Ferdinand, Eleusis and Enlightenment: The Problem of the Mysteries in Eighteenth-Century Thought. (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 351) 268 pp. 2024:5 (Brill, NE) <716-20>
ISBN 978-90-04-54754-4 hard ¥25,187.- (税込) EUR 107.00

The age of Enlightenment - the so-called age of reason - was also, paradoxically, the age of the Eleusinian mysteries. By attempting to reveal Demeter's secret cult, British, French, and German thinkers and freemasons of the eighteenth century revealed more than they bargained for: the pagan origins of Christian doctrines such as the Trinity and the afterlife, and through the mythical gift of law and agriculture to Eleusis an alternative narrative of the origins of civilisation to that found in the Bible.

Kadane, Matthew, The Enlightenment and Original Sin. (The Life of Ideas) 264 pp. 2024:5 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <716-16>
ISBN 978-0-226-83287-6 hard ¥25,426.- (税込) US$ 115.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-83289-0 paper ¥6,411.- (税込) US$ 29.00 *

An eloquent microhistory that argues for the centrality of the doctrine of original sin to the Enlightenment. What was the Enlightenment? This question has been endlessly debated. In The Enlightenment and Original Sin, historian Matthew Kadane advances the bold claim that the Enlightenment is best defined through what it set out to accomplish, which was nothing short of rethinking the meaning of human nature. Kadane argues that this project centered around the doctrine of original sin and, ultimately, its rejection, signaling the radical notion that an inherently flawed nature can be overcome by human means. Kadane explores this and other wide-ranging themes through the story of a previously unknown figure, Pentecost Barker, an eighteenth-century purser and wine merchant. By examining Barker's personal diary and extensive correspondence with a Unitarian minister, Kadane tracks the transformation of Barker's consciousness from a Puritan to an Enlightenment outlook, revealing through one man's journey the large-scale shifts in self-understanding whose philosophical reverberations have shaped debates on human nature for centuries.

Kraal, Anders, The Problem of God in David Hume. (Elements in the Problems of God) 62 pp. 2024:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <716-17>
ISBN 978-1-009-49446-5 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99 *
ISBN 978-1-009-27026-7 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

David Hume (1711-1776) is one of the foremost critics of attempts to provide rational arguments in support of traditional Christian theism in Western philosophy. In this Element, the authors examine Hume's chief objections to the cosmological argument, the design argument, and the argument from miracles, along with some main responses to these objections. The authors also examine Hume's seminal version of the argument from evil, which is deployed in an effort to show that traditional Christian theism is lacking in coherent meaning. Drawing on recent developments in Hume scholarship according to which Hume's ultimate philosophical aim was to further an anti-Christian agenda, an attempt is made to situate Hume's writings on God and religion in an unfolding narrative that is impacted throughout by the trenchant religious criticisms of Hume's chief philosophical predecessor, Thomas Hobbes.