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

B.バコフェン著　ルソーの哲学
Bachofen, Blaise, La philosophie de Rousseau: reperes. (Reperes philosophiques) 213 p. 2024:3 (Vrin, FR) <724-9>
ISBN 978-2-7116-3166-7 paper ¥3,060.- (税込) EUR 13.00

Gerlings, Jonas / Nokkala, Ere (eds.), The Process of Enlightenment: Essays by and inspired by Hans Erich Boedeker. (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2024:07) 336 pp. 2024 (Voltaire Foundation, UK) <724-11>
ISBN 978-1-80207-186-3 paper ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

The historiographical concept "Enlightenment" has for a long time wavered between the idea of a single unified Enlightenment and the notion of multiple competing enlightenments. This volume revisits this seeming contradiction by asserting that the Enlightenment should be understood as a shared process of communication, seeking ways to accommodate and mediate rival ideologies and orient enlightenment projects towards the betterment of humankind. Taking the work of the eminent Enlightenment scholar Hans Erich Boedeker as their point of departure, the different chapters seek to explore this perspective through specific case studies of political communication. Readers are offered a selection of Boedeker's texts never previously translated into English, along with a series of contributions from his former colleagues, students, and collaborators. In doing so the book displays the broad scope of Boedeker's own work, as well as the multiplicity of themes captured within the framework of the Enlightenment. Genres, modes, and strategies of communication are contrasted with the institutions and cultural practices underpinning them. In exploring the depth and scope of Boedeker's work, the volume pays tribute to a German tradition rooted in historical semantics, while at the same time querying its present state and its future.

Grosse, Annelie, Religion, Science and Moral Philosophy in the Huguenot Enlightenment: Jean Henri Samuel Formey and the Berlin Academy. (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2024:2) 352 pp. 2024:2 (Voltaire Foundation, UK) <724-12>
ISBN 978-1-83764-403-2 paper ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

Religion, Science and Moral Philosophy in the Huguenot Enlightenment makes two significant contributions to existing scholarship on the Enlightenment. Firstly, as an author, journalist, translator, and inexhaustible letter writer, the Huguenot pastor and secretary of the Berlin Academy of Science, Samuel Formey, was involved in most of the philosophical debates in the European Republic of Letters during the second half of the eighteenth century. This is the first monograph dedicated solely to Formey's multifaceted work. Secondly, the book recasts the concept of Religious Enlightenment by considering Formey as a pastor-philosopher whose concept of philosophy included revealed religion instead of perpetuating the image of him as an 'enemy of Enlightenment' who opposed the philosophy of his time by referring to religion. More precisely, the book explores the notion of the compatibility between reason and faith in Formey's thought on the existence of God, the freedom of will, divine providence and other questions relating to religion and metaphysics. It shows how Formey altered his portrayal of the relation between reason and faith depending on the genre and immediate context of his writings. The broader contextualisation of Formey's arguments in German rationalist philosophy and Calvinist theology unveils not only the overlaps between Wolffianism and eighteenth-century Calvinism but also gives an impression of the diversity of the thought of Huguenot pastors and philosophers during the Enlightenment.

ヒュームのミニマルな有神論と監視されたキリスト教教会
Hartl, Peter, Hume's Minimal Theism and the Supervised Christian Church: A Philosophical and Historical Analysis of the Idea of True Religion. 184 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-13>
ISBN 978-3-031-54944-1 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

In this book, Peter Hartl offers a novel and comprehensive interpretation of David Hume's philosophy of religion focusing on various notions of 'true religion' in Hume's overall philosophy and how these ideas relate to various early modern positions on religion, society and philosophy. The account consists of both critical and positive parts of Hume's overall, nuanced position on theoretical, social and political aspects of religion and the philosophical criticism of religion. Hartl criticises the atheist and completely negative readings of Hume's philosophy of religion. Instead of presenting Hume's position as either a radical secularist or closet atheist, Hartl's interpretation builds on the underdeveloped, positive and constructive parts of Hume's account of (true) religion. For Hume, on the one hand, true religion is compatible with or even vindicates minimal theism, and it forms part of philosophy exemplifying intellectual virtues. On the other hand, Hume has a pragmatic stance on the role of religion in society, according to which the government should control religious institutions to reduce the power of church authorities but to retain some positive social effects of religion.

1650～1800年の専門辞典・百科事典－F.Kafker記念論集
Loveland, Jeff / Schmitt, Stephane (eds.), Specialized Dictionaries and Encyclopedias, 1650-1800: A Tribute to Frank Kafker. (Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment 2024:03) 488 pp. 2024:3 (Voltaire Foundation, UK) <724-14>
ISBN 978-1-83764-146-8 paper ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the number of specialized dictionaries and encyclopedias grew from a trickle to a flood, while the number of disciplines they were devoted to grew from a handful to dozens, representing many varieties of knowledge. Specialized dictionaries - as most were called, whether lexical or encyclopedic - were far more numerous than general encyclopedias. Yet despite their importance - as sources of knowledge, for example, and as definers of disciplines - they have not been much studied. Drawing on Frank Kafker's methods for studying the period's general encyclopedias, as pioneered in Notable Encyclopedias of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (1981), this volume examines specialized dictionaries as commercial products, collections of content, and cultural artifacts. Specifically, it complements a wide-ranging, analytical introduction sketching out the characteristics of specialized dictionaries in general with a series of individually authored but standardized case studies. The latter deal with dictionaries on a variety of disciplines, from the Bible to mining, and in five European languages. The volume concludes with an essay on Frank Kafker's influence on historiography.

人々の熟議－J.-J.ルソーの政治哲学のコンテクストと概念
Penigaud de Mourgues, Theophile, Les deliberations du peuple: contexte et concepts de la philosophie politique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. (Politiques) 467 p. 2024:3 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <724-15>
ISBN 978-2-406-16529-3 hard ¥21,656.- (税込) EUR 92.00
ISBN 978-2-406-16528-6 paper ¥9,180.- (税込) EUR 39.00

D.ランシマン著　思想史
Runciman, David, The History of Ideas: Equality, Justice and Revolution. 320 pp. 2024:7 (Profile Books, UK) <724-16>
ISBN 978-1-80081-590-2 hard ¥6,267.- (税込) GB￡ 22.00 *

A splendid book: economical, invigorating and surprising' The Times 'He has that gift, both as a podcaster and as a writer, to illuminate abstruse and abstract ideas with human charm' Observer In this bold new follow-up to Confronting Leviathan, David Runciman unmasks modern politics and reveals the great men and women of ideas behind it. What can Samuel Butler's ideas teach us about the oddity of how we choose to organise our societies? How did Frederick Douglass not only expose the horrors of slavery, but champion a new approach to abolishing it? Why should we tolerate snobbery, betrayal and hypocrisy, as Judith Shklar suggested? And what does Friedrich Nietzsche predict for our future? From Rousseau to Rawls, fascism to feminism and pleasure to anarchy, this is a mind-bending tour through the history of ideas which will forever change your view of politics today.

アダム・スミスの道徳哲学における人間性、精神、自己
Bonfiglioli, Riccardo, Human Nature, Mind and the Self in Adam Smith's Moral Philosophy: What Does it Mean to Be Human? 224 pp. 2024:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <724-10>
ISBN 978-3-031-56778-0 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book investigates the problematisation in Adam Smith's moral philosophy of a classical question: what makes us human beings from a moral standpoint? To do this, Riccardo Bonfiglioli explores the relationship between the concepts of 'human nature', 'mind' and 'the self' in order to reconstruct Smith's theory of subjectivity. After providing a systematic reconstruction of Adam Smith's conceptions of 'human nature' , 'mind' and 'the self' - exploring some aspects of Smith's philosophy (nature, philosophy of history, sympathy and imagination) and their empirical expressions (education, conduct and character) - Bonfiglioli argues that, in Adam Smith's work, the meaning of 'moral human beings' would depend on the human being's effort to live in harmony with oneself and the others. According to Bonfiglioli, in Smith's moral theory, this 'harmony with oneself and the others' would be achieved in relation to a certain kind of awareness that can be possible when human beings try to judge the conduct and try to act according to the impartial spectator. Specifically, this impartial spectator is reinterpreted by the author in the light of the concept of immediacy.