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

Fielding, James Matthew, The Movement of Thought: Wittgenstein on Time, Change and History. (Nordic Wittgenstein Studies 9) 284 pp. 2023:6 (Springer, GW) <702-59>
ISBN 978-3-031-29260-6 hard ¥31,599.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book covers the topic of history and the role that it played in the Austrio-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's thought. The topic is explored from multiple angles, both chronologically and thematically. Reviewing Wittgenstein's two magnum opera - the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1921) and Philosophical Investigations (1952), this work is an investigation into an under-acknowledged element in Wittgenstein's thought, one which in many cases acted as an impetus for that life-long process of novel philosophical reflection: History.This volume traces the evolution of Wittgenstein's thoughts on time and temporality from the Tractatus, through the Investigations, into some key post-Investigations remarks and also examines the motivations behind Wittgenstein's post-Tractarian return to philosophy and, in particular, the unique methodology he developed in order to serve his renewed purpose. The final chapter seeks to answer thequestion, What was Wittgenstein trying to achieve with Philosophical Investigations? This book is of interest to philosophers.

デジタル思想史における研究－新しい方法とコンピュータ・アプローチ
de Bolla, Peter (ed.), Explorations in the Digital History of Ideas: New Methods and Computational Approaches. 300 pp. 2023:11 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1533>
ISBN 978-1-00-926358-0 hard ¥24,497.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

What would the history of ideas look like if we were able to read the entire archive of printed material of a historical period? Would our 'great men (usually)' story of how ideas are formed and change over time begin to look very different? This book explores these questions through case studies on ideas such as 'liberty', 'republicanism' or 'government' using digital humanities approaches to large scale text data sets. It sets out the methodologies and tools created by the Cambridge Concept Lab as exemplifications of how new digital methods can open up the history of ideas to heretofore unseen avenues of enquiry and evidence. By applying text mining techniques to intellectual history or the history of concepts, this book explains how computational approaches to text mining can substantially increase the power of our understanding of ideas in history.

Frieman, Catherine J., Archaeology as History: Telling Stories from a Fragmented Past. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 75 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <702-1535>
ISBN 978-1-00-905556-7 paper ¥4,899.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00 *

This Element volume focuses on how archaeologists construct narratives of past people and environments from the complex and fragmented archaeological record. In keeping with its position in a series of historiography, it considers how we make meaning from things and places, with an emphasis on changing practices over time and the questions archaeologists have and can ask of the archaeological record. It aims to provide readers with a reflexive and comprehensive overview of what it is that archaeologists do with the archaeological record, how that translates into specific stories or narratives about the past, and the limitations or advantages of these when trying to understand past worlds. The goal is to shift the reader's perspective of archaeology away from seeing it as a primarily data gathering field, to a clearer understanding of how archaeologists make and use the data they uncover.

Grossman, Henryk, Henryk Grossman Works. Volume 4: Writings on Economic and Social History. Ed. by R. Kuhn. (Historical Materialism Book Series 292) 516 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-115>
ISBN 978-90-04-67858-3 hard ¥40,354.- (税込) EUR 166.00 *

The pioneering and still relevant Marxist studies of the transition from feudalism to capitalism in this collection are, with one exception, published in English here for the first time. Before his better-known work on Marx's theories, Henryk Grossman wrote about the economic history of Galicia, the Polish province annexed by the Habsburgs, drawing on very extensive primary research. His later, devastating critique of Weber argument about Protestantism and the rise of capitalism is also included in this volume.

Borghini, Andrea (ed.), Beyond Dogmatism: Studies in Historical Sociology. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences 261) 283 pp. 2023:9 (Brill, NE) <702-1227>
ISBN 978-90-04-67805-7 hard ¥33,790.- (税込) EUR 139.00