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

Moskalewicz, Marcin, Hannah Arendt's Ambiguous Storytelling: Temporality, Judgment, and the Philosophy of History. 272 pp. 2024:5 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <719-64>
ISBN 978-1-350-29587-2 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Through an original interpretation of Hannah Arendt's historiography, Marcin Moskalewicz reveals an under-acknowledged philosophy of history in her vast and variegated oeuvre, including the historical magnum opus, The Origins of Totalitarianism. Hannah Arendt's Ambiguous Storytelling argues that the key to understanding the fragmentary thought of Arendt is through the speculative and critical dimensions of the philosophy of history. It unravels the essential aporia of Arendt's thinking - the discrepancy between political and historical meaning of events - and proposes its overcoming through aesthetic historical judgment. Reading her approach as "fragmented historiography", the project she was committed to reveals itself as the only credible methodological response to totalitarianism and scientific approach to history, which both function as a retrospective prophecy, erroneously presenting the past as a forecast of the future. A novel contribution to Arendt scholarship, this book will appeal to philosophers of history, political scientists and theorists alike.

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Frevert, Ute, Writing the History of Emotions: Concepts and Practices, Economies and Politics. (Writing History) 344 pp. 2024:3 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <719-1401>
ISBN 978-1-350-34588-1 hard ¥21,367.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00 *
ISBN 978-1-350-34587-4 paper ¥7,119.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

Emotions make history, and they have a history. They influence historical events such as revolutions, riots and protest movements. At the same time, they are shaped by historical experiences tied to family upbringing, educational and cultural institutions, work and the home. Writing the History of Emotions shows how emotions like love, trust, honour, pride, shame, empathy and greed have impacted historical change since the 18th century and were themselves dependent on social, political and economic environments. Importantly, this book provides a timely exploration of racialized, gendered, class-based notions of emotions. This exciting addition to Bloomsbury's successful Writing History series analyses how emotions matter in and to history, and how they are themselves objects of history. Here, leading scholar Ute Frevert eschews a traditional chronological history of emotions in favour of an innovative collection which transgresses time periods to illustrate the different emotional meanings one particular material object has had throughout history. This book sheds light on how emotions have been used, instrumentalised and manipulated both to propel and suspend democratic politics. In doing so, it opens a rich new avenue of research for the history of emotions.

Galland, Caroline / Heimendinger, Vincent (dir.), Histineraires: la fabrique de l'histoire telle qu'elle se raconte: une enquete sur les historiens contemporains. (Le temps de l'histoire) 412 p. 2024:1 (Pr. U. de Provence, FR) <719-1402>
ISBN 979-10-320-0497-5 paper ¥8,003.- (税込) EUR 34.00

Pereira, Mateus Henrique de Faria / Araujo, Valdei Lopes de, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History: A Theory for the 21st Century. 144 pp. 2024:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <719-1404>
ISBN 978-1-350-41071-8 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This book enables us to understand the current transformations in the experience of time that have been taking place in recent decades. Mateus Henrique de Faria Pereira and Valdei Lopes de Araujo convincingly argue that we live in a time of 'Updatism', the temporal dimension that emerges in those societies imprisoned by the structures of infinite expansion, and that this Updatism has profound consequences for how we think about the past, the present and the future. Using the theoretical works of Lyotard and Heidegger as its foundation, 'Updatism' and the Understanding of Time and History analyses our digital modernity and the significance of key themes, such as updating, solitude, democracy, internet, exposure, postmodernism and historicism. It discusses aspects of our present time that reveal substantial differences between the historicist-modern time, usually located in the 19th century, and an emergent 'chronotope' or 'regime of historicity' understood and explained here as Updatism. The book is effective in mapping the ubiquity of Updatism and the anxiety-inducing insistence of being constantly updated, as well as exploring some searching questions: If our reality is constantly being updated, and its previous versions are deleted or inaccessible, what does this mean for memory and our understanding of history? And what does this tell us about the world we live in today and the one we may update to in the future?