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

A.バディウの著作における歴史の概念
Purcell, Kerry William, The Militant Historian: The Concept of History in the Work of Alain Badiou. 272 pp. 2024:11 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <736-98>
ISBN 978-1-350-38105-6 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This is the first wide-ranging analysis of Alain Badiou's use, development and transformation of the concept of history. Despite the wealth of perspectives now available on how social and cultural practices take shape, historicism still appears to be the most dominant. The Militant Historian examines this primacy and reveals how Badiou's work offers a radical riposte.Exploring key texts in Badiou's oeuvre and how his philosophical ideas disrupt dominant conceptions of history and the role of the historian, Kerry William Purcell addresses how these ideas could transform our approaches to the historical and what it means to 'do history' as a meaningful endeavour. Adopting a chronological approach to Badiou's work, each chapter explores specific conceptual developments in his writing and how they lend themselves to a reconsideration of the subject who speaks history. From these new and disruptive modes of doing emerges the figure of the militant historian - a role with the potential to impact how we practice history outside the narrow strictures of academic life.

歴史研究の技法
Land, Isaac, The Craft of Historical Research: A Practical Guide from Start to Finish. 283 pp. 2024:12 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1421>
ISBN 978-3-031-68456-2 paper ¥6,587.- (税込) EUR 27.99

Complete with practical advice and helpful guidance, this book is an approachable manual perfect for budding historians at all levels. Its worksheets, which focus on framing realistic goals and heading off common misunderstandings, will aid independent work and make check-ins with the advisor more candid and productive. Drawing on examples from six continents, as well as primary sources ranging from cuneiform tablets to emails, students will learn about the effective deployment of quotations, footnotes, maps, graphs, images, and data visualizations. Throughout the book, emphasis is placed on how the student can formulate, support, and revise their claims in a historical project with a skeptical reader in mind.

Ruddock, Andy, History, Politics and the Evolution of Cultivation Theory: Beyond Violence? (Palgrave Studies in the History of the Media) 155 pp. 2025:1 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <736-1423>
ISBN 978-3-031-75910-9 hard ¥9,412.- (税込) EUR 39.99

This book provides a cultural history of cultivation theory, a North American mass communication paradigm best known for arguing that television violence was a potent agent of political socialisation. Decades after its inception, cultivation theory remains an evocative force in imagining twenty-first-century media power. This book reveals how many factors shaped the theory: the spectre of twentieth-century fascism, the Cold War, political turbulence in 1960s America, and the realisation that television had profoundly altered the rhythms of social and political life. The book also explains how cultivation theory became a means of analysing diverse media influences, thanks to various scholars who brought different motivations, perspectives and skills to the project. Cultivation theory succeeded because its practitioners related their work to the changing political moods of post-war America. In doing so, they created a unique critical perspective within mass communication research, which continues to shed light on the role media play in political conflict.

Tucker, Aviezer, Historiographic Reasoning. (Elements in Historical Theory and Practice) 75 pp. 2024:12 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <736-1424>
ISBN 978-1-009-56522-6 hard ¥14,296.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-009-32450-2 paper ¥4,862.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

Historiographic reasoning from evidentiary inputs is sui generis. Historiography is neither empirical, nor self-knowledge, nor a genre of fiction or ideology. Historiographic reasoning is irreducible to general scientific or social science reasoning. The book applies Bayesian insights to explicate historiographic reasoning as probable. It distinguishes epistemic transmission of knowledge from evidence from the generation of detailed historiographic knowledge from multiple coherent and independent evidentiary inputs in three modular stages. A history of historiographic reasoning since the late 18th century demonstrates that there was a historiographic scientific revolution across the historical sciences in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The underdetermination of historiography by the evidence, counterfactual historiographic reasoning, and false reasoning and other fallacies are further explained and discussed in terms of the probabilistic relations between the evidence and historiography.

Waterlot, Ghislain, Mystique et histoire chez Henri Bergson: une lecture des Deux sources de la morale et de la religion. (Mystica) 438 p. 2024:9 (Champion, FR) <736-108>
ISBN 978-2-7453-6209-4 paper ¥13,653.- (税込) EUR 58.00