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

Govrin, Ido, Philosophical Archaeology: With and Beyond Agamben on Philosophy, History, and Art. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Italian Philosophy) 206 pp. 2023:1 (State U. New York Pr., US) <695-58>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9157-8 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Lapointe, Sandra / Reck, Erich (eds.), Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons. 368 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-31>
ISBN 978-1-03-202434-9 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book presents a series of case studies and reflections on the historiographical assumptions, methods and approaches that shape the way in which philosophers construct their own past.The chapters in the volume advance discussion of the methods of historians of philosophy, while at the same time illustrating the various ways in which philosophical canons come into existence, debunking the myth of analytical philosophy's ahistoricism and providing a deeper understanding of the roles historiographical devices play in philosophical thought. More importantly, the contributors attempt to understand history of philosophy in connection with other historical and historiographical approaches: contributors engage classical history of science, sociology of knowledge, history of psychology and historiography, in dialogue with historiographical practices in philosophy more narrowly construed. Additionally, select chapters adopt a more diverse perspective, by making place for non-Western approaches and for efforts to construe new philosophical narratives that do justice to the voice of women across the centuries.Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in history of philosophy, meta-philosophy, philosophy of history, historiography, intellectual history and sociology of knowledge.

Claus, Peter / Marriott, John, History: An Introduction to Theory and Method. 3rd ed. 568 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-2000>
ISBN 978-0-367-74097-9 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-367-74095-5 paper ¥9,683.- (税込) GB￡ 33.99 *

This book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of concerns that have preoccupied historians over time. Global in scope, it explores historical perspectives not only from historiography itself but from related areas such as literature, sociology, geography and anthropology which have entered into productive dialogues with history.Clearly written and accessible, this third edition is fully revised with an updated structure and new areas of historical enquiry and themes added, including the history of emotions, video history and global pandemics. In all of this, the authors have attempted to think beyond the boundaries of the West and consider varied approaches to history. They do so by engaging with theoretical perspectives and methodologies that have provided the foundation for good historical practice. The authors analyse how historians can improve their skills by learning about the discipline of historiography, that is, how historians go about the task of exploring the past and determining where the line separating history from other disciplines, such as sociology or geography, runs.History: An Introduction to Theory and Method 3ed is an essential resource for students of historical theory and method working at both an introductory and more advanced level.

Dover, Paul M. (ed.), Engaging with the Past and Present: The Relationship between Past and Present across the Disciplines. (Engaging with...) 280 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-2001>
ISBN 978-0-367-46032-7 hard ¥61,253.- (税込) GB￡ 215.00 *

This collection brings together fifteen essays from practitioners of a variety of disciplines that concern themselves with the past, not only historians, but scholars from other branches of the humanities and social sciences (including theology, art history, public history, and archival science) and natural sciences (including geology, paleontology, astronomy, and paleoanthropology).What is the relationship between the past and the present? This essential and seemingly straightforward question, of central importance to many fields of study, in fact yields a variety of answers, with significant repercussions for methodology, epistemology, and pedagogy. This volume's contributors describe how they relate phenomena in the past and their observations of the present, revealing intellectual resonances and opportunities for dialogue across subjects that are too often walled off from one another. By engaging scholars in a conversation about a first principle of their work, this book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary consideration of a timeless question, with implications for knowledge about both past and present.Engaging with the Past and Present is full of insights and ideas for anyone seeking to understand the past or employ it as evidence for understanding present realities.

Furet, Francois, L'abecedaire de Francois Furet. (L'abecedaire de...Les Lumieres aujourd'hui) 2022:11 (Ed. de l'Observatoire, FR) <695-2002>
ISBN 979-10-329-1353-6 paper ¥4,472.- (税込) EUR 19.00

Timmins, Adam, Towards a Realist Philosophy of History. 192 pp. 2022:7 (Lexington Books, US) <695-2005>
ISBN 978-1-66690-241-9 hard ¥21,560.- (税込) US$ 100.00 *

Towards a Realist Philosophy of History argues for the radical-at least in contemporary historical theory-view that historians are by and large successful in their goal of providing accurate knowledge and understanding about the historical past. Adam Timmins provides a philosophical framework that supports this endeavor, as well as highlighting some of the issues with the "strong constructivist" accounts common in contemporary historical theory. Among other things, the book provides a realist construal of colligatory concepts, historiographical reference and the use of narrative, as well as examining the mechanisms of historiographical progress. The work also provides some much-needed criticism of aspects of the strong constructivist position, such as the contemporary adoption of "irrealism" and the idealist implications of this, that has have yet failed to make their way into the existing literature. The book proves that historical theory has not "moved on" from the realism-idealism debate and that realism with regards to the products of historiography is still very much a live option.

Arakawa, Fumi, Correlative Archaeology: Rethinking Archaeological Theory. (Issues in Southwest Archaeology) 184 pp. 2022:6 (Lexington Books, US) <695-1660>
ISBN 978-1-79364-378-0 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

In Correlative Archaeology, Fumi Arakawa applies correlative thinking practices, which are derived from an East Asian view of the world that stresses connectivity, to archaeological interpretations. Arakawa, a Japanese scholar who was trained in Western archaeology, argues that a correlative paradigm can help archaeologists, as well as scholars and researchers from other disciplines, consider competing paradigms and integrate Native American voices and narratives into interpretations of prehistoric art and landscapes.