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

清水耕介著　京都学派と国際関係
Shimizu, Kosuke, The Kyoto School and International Relations: Non-Western Attempts for a New World Order. (Worlding Beyond the West) 174 pp. 2022 (Routledge, UK) * paper 2023 <675-95>
ISBN 978-1-138-62495-5 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-200401-3 paper ¥11,392.- (税込) GB￡ 39.99 *

The Kyoto School and International Relations explores the Kyoto School's challenge to transcend the 'Western' domination over the 'rest' of the world, and the issues this raises for contemporary 'non-Western' and 'Global IR' literature. Was the support of Kyoto School thinkers inevitable due to the despotism of military government, thus nothing to do with their philosophy, or a logical extension of their philosophical engagement? The book answers this question by investigating individual Kyoto School philosophers in detail. The author argues that any attempts to transcend the 'West' are destined to be drawn into power politics as far as they uncritically adopt and use the prevailing ontological concept of linear progressive time and dominant meta-narrative of Westphalia. Thus, to fully understand this problem, there is the need to be cautious of the power of language of Westphalia and the concept of time in IR. Aimed at students and scholars of IR theory, Japanese politics and East Asian IR in general, this book provides some introductory explanations of these academic subjects, developing a theory based on the concepts of time and language of Kyoto School philosophy.

Bodin, Jean, Les six livres de la Republique / De Republica libri sex: Livre troisieme / Liber III. (Bibliotheque d'histoire de la Renaissance 19) 718 p. 2022:3 (Classiques Garnier, FR) <675-634>
ISBN 978-2-406-12332-3 hard ¥21,892.- (税込) EUR 93.00 *
ISBN 978-2-406-12331-6 paper ¥12,711.- (税込) EUR 54.00 *

Coirault-Neuburger, Sylvie, Politique de l'individu-citoyen: contre la penetration des theories fascistes (1922-2022). (Ouverture philosophique. Debats) 237 p. 2022:2 (L'Harmattan, FR) <675-636>
ISBN 978-2-343-25651-1 paper ¥6,002.- (税込) EUR 25.50 *

Du Bois, W. E. B., W. E. B. Du Bois: International Thought. Ed. by A. Getachew et al. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 300 pp. 2022:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <675-638>
ISBN 978-1-108-49164-8 hard ¥19,939.- (税込) GB￡ 69.99 *
ISBN 978-1-108-79877-8 paper ¥6,549.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the most significant American political thinkers of the twentieth century. This volume collects 24 of his essays and speeches on international themes, spanning the years 1900-1956. These key texts reveal Du Bois's distinctive approach to the problem of empire and demonstrate his continued importance in our current global context. The volume charts the development of Du Bois's anti-imperial thought, drawing attention to his persistent concern with the relationship between democracy and empire and illustrating the divergent inflections of this theme in the context of a shifting geopolitical terrain; unprecedented political crises, especially during the two world wars; and new opportunities for transnational solidarity. With a critical introduction and extensive editorial notes, W.E.B. Du Bois: International Thought conveys both the coherence and continuity of Du Bois's international thought across his long life and the tremendous range and variety of his preoccupations, intellectual sources, and interlocutors.

Hoyt, Katherine (ed.), Unequal Encounters: A Reader in Early Latin American Political Thought. 366 pp. 2022:1 (Lexington Books, US) <675-639>
ISBN 978-1-79362-252-5 hard ¥28,028.- (税込) US$ 130.00 *

This volume presents a selection of the most compelling political writings from early colonial Latin America that address the themes of conquest, colonialism, and enslavement. It will be invaluable for students and scholars of Latin American political thought and other fields in the social sciences and humanities. Katherine Hoyt prepared extensive introductory material that introduces readers to each of the writers, contextualizing their ideas and the controversies surrounding them. The anthology centers the voices of Indigenous peoples, whose writings constitute six of the fifteen chapters while also including women's, African, and Jewish perspectives. Included among the writings are the foundation narrative of the Kaqchiquel Maya and an example of "mirror of princes" literature in which Inca writer Guaman Poma advises the King of Spain on how to better govern Peru. Spanish priests Bartolome de Las Casas and Alonso de la Vera Cruz make contributions to the philosophical writings of the School of Salamanca on natural law as they relate to the peoples of the Americas. Other writers protest the inhumanity of the trade in enslaved Africans and the Inquisition. A volume such as this one brings greater nuance to our understanding of the continent's past, helping us to envision a more inclusive future.

Knewitz, Simone, The Politics of Private Property: Contested Claims to Ownership in U.S. Cultural Discourse. (Political Theory for Today) 298 pp. 2021:4 (Lexington Books, US) <675-640>
ISBN 978-1-79362-375-1 hard ¥26,303.- (税込) US$ 122.00 *

Located at the intersections of law and culture, The Politics of Private Property provides a fresh perspective on the functions of private property within U.S. cultural discourse by establishing a long historical arch from the early nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The study challenges the assumption of an unquestioned cultural consensus in the United States on the subject of individual property rights, instead mobilizing property as an analytical category to examine how social and political debates generate competing and contested claims to ownership. The property narratives arising out of political conflicts, the book suggests, serve to naturalize the unequal social and economic structures and legitimize the hegemonic order, which however remains to be shifting and subject to challenges. Analyzing the property narratives at the heart of the U.S. American self-conception, The Politics of Private Property addresses the gap between the ideal of the U.S. as a universal middle-class society, characterized by a wide diffusion of property ownership, and the actual social reality which is defined by unequal dissemination of wealth and race-based structures of exclusion.

Owen, Christopher H., Heaven Can Indeed Fall: The Life of Willmoore Kendall. (Political Theory for Today) 256 pp. 2021:9 (Lexington Books, US) <675-641>
ISBN 978-1-79362-444-4 hard ¥25,225.- (税込) US$ 117.00 *

Willmoore Kendall was a man against the world, a "maverick," an "iconoclast." His thoughts were profound, his countless enemies powerful, his personal life full of drama. Heaven Can Indeed Fall is the first full-length biography of Kendall and integrates the man with the teacher, thinker, and cold warrior. Once a Marxist, Kendall became a fearsome foe of global communism. He never apologized for supporting Joseph McCarthy. As the co-founder of National Review he helped turn the word liberal into an insult. A "stormy petrel," Kendall was a man "who never lost an argument or kept a friend." Yet he was one of the most effective and sensitive teachers of his age. His ideas shaped Cold War practices of intelligence analysis and psychological warfare. As an academic he became the premier American theorist for conservative populism. The recent reemergence of populist ideas among American conservatives makes understanding Kendall ever more imperative. This book shows how a child prodigy and bucolic boy scout became an ambitious intelligence analyst, razor-tongued polemicist and profound student of American politics. By knowing Kendall one can better understand Cold War America, and contemporary America as well.

Rustighi, Lorenzo, Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy. 316 pp. 2021:12 (Lexington Books, US) <675-49>
ISBN 978-1-79363-871-7 hard ¥26,303.- (税込) US$ 122.00 *

Is patriarchy an illness of democratic societies or a structural problem? To answer this dilemma, Back Over the Sexual Contract: A Hegelian Critique of Patriarchy examines the problem of patriarchy in modern European political theory by reopening the question of the "sexual contract." Through a study of the thought of Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Immanuel Kant, Lorenzo Rustighi argues that the conceptual roots of male patriarchal entitlement should be sought in the logic of authorized power that underpins the modern understanding of both the state and the family. Challenging the mainstream distinction between the private and the public, Rustighi provocatively suggests that patriarchy is not something that undermines democracy as an alien threat, but is rather inscribed in the intrinsically anti-democratic effects of the understanding of democracy construed by the modern rationale of the social contract. He puts forward a Hegelian argument to propose an unconventional constitutional approach to feminist political theory that is intended to help us rethink democracy beyond its inherent impasses.

Colebrook, Michael J., The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements. (Political Theory for Today) 190 pp. 2022:4 (Lexington Books, US) <675-41>
ISBN 978-1-79365-134-1 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

The Recurrence of the End Times: Voegelin, Hegel, and the Stop-History Movements explores the deep connection between modern political ideologies and the secular eschatological hopes and dreams of a post-Christian society. Focusing primarily upon the thought of 20th century German emigre political scientist Eric Voegelin, the book argues that we cannot understand the globalized world in which we live unless we appreciate the lasting influence of the various "End of History" speculators-specifically, G.W.F Hegel, Alexandre Kojeve, and Francis Fukuyama. Through a Voegelinian lens, he dissects the relationship between these three thinkers, also claiming that while Voegelin may have misunderstood Hegel, his critiques of the Hegelian approach to history offer fresh and important perspectives on the contemporary world. This makes a forceful argument that the idea of history as a teleological path, leading toward some goal-whether perfect harmony between nations, a technocratic utopia, a return to some romanticized idyllic "state of nature," or what Kojeve and Fukuyama called the "universal and homogenous State"-has vast, and perverse, implications for the trajectory of American foreign and domestic policy.

Trepanier, Lee (ed.), Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID. (Contemporary Liminality) 248 pp. 2022:8 (Routledge, UK) <675-338>
ISBN 978-1-03-205395-0 hard ¥38,461.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *

This book examines diseases and disasters from the perspective of social and political theory, exploring the ways in which political leaders, social activists, historians, philosophers, and writers have tried to make sense of the catastrophes that have plagued humankind from Thucydides to the present COVID pandemic. By adopting the perspective of political theory, it sheds light on what these individuals and events can teach us about politics, society, and human nature, as well as the insights and limitations of political theory. Including thinkers such as Thucydides, Sophocles, Augustine, Bacon, Locke, Hume, Rousseau, Publius, Bartolome de las Casas, Jane Addams, Camus, Saramago, Baudrillard, Weber, Schmitt, Voegelin and Agamben, it considers a diverse range of events including the plagues of Byzantium and 14th century Europe, 9/11, the hurricanes of Fukushima, Boxing Day, and New Orleans, and the current COVID pandemic. An examination of past, present, and future diseases and disasters, and the ways in which individuals and societies react to them, this volume will appeal to scholars of politics, sociology, anthropology and philosophy with interests in disaster and the social body.

P.スコフィールド他編　ベンサムの民主主義・法廷・法典化論
Schofield, Philip / Zhai, Xiaobo (eds.), Bentham on Democracy, Courts, and Codification. 278 pp. 2022:9 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <675-24>
ISBN 978-1-316-51604-1 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Drawing upon original manuscripts and The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, this collection represents the latest scholarship on Bentham's late and mature thought on constitutional law. The contributions cover a diverse range of major topics, from official aptitude or competency to the interests of women, and explore Bentham's writings on courts, codification, and cosmopolitanism. Together, its chapters challenge the received notion, based on early jurisprudential writings, that Bentham's constitutional thought is authoritarian, and show that Bentham, as a constitutional theorist, offers a distinctive liberal perspective. Freeing Bentham's theories from their long sentences and unfamiliar terminology, these essays make accessible Bentham's subtle and important ideas on liberal democracy. By shining a light on Bentham's mature thought, this volume offers a refreshingly comprehensive, detailed, and authentic account of Bentham's theory of democracy.

Cerovac, Ivan, John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy. 206 pp. 2022:2 (Lexington Books, US) <675-21>
ISBN 978-1-79363-676-8 hard ¥22,638.- (税込) US$ 105.00 *

John Stuart Mill and Epistemic Democracy explores the epistemic, or cognitive, character of democratic institutional practices and the protection of basic liberties in Mill's political thought. Mapping Mill's theory of representative democracy and critically engaging Mill's more controversial issues, Ivan Cerovac identifies the epistemic criteria within these proposals and uses them as a basis for unifying Mill's political thought. The book addresses the epistemic role of wide democratic participation on the one hand and institutional mechanisms used to filter the public will-such as political representation, plural voting proposals, partisanship, division of epistemic and political labor-on the other, and it analyzes how Mill tries to resolve the conflict between political and epistemic values. Characterizing Mill as both a political instrumentalist and an epistemic democrat, Cerovac sets Mill's theory in a broader explanatory framework and compares it with contemporary accounts of epistemic justification. Emphasizing Mill's normative considerations regarding franchise and the exercise of political power over others, this book discusses how to implement the epistemic ideal in real-world politics. It will be a fascinating read for anyone interested in democratic decision-making.

Robinson, Scott, John Locke and the Uncivilized Society: Individualism and Resistance in America Today. (Political Theory for Today) 252 pp. 2021:4 (Lexington Books, US) <675-22>
ISBN 978-1-79361-757-6 hard ¥23,931.- (税込) US$ 111.00 *

John Locke's influence on American political culture has been largely misunderstood by his commentators. Though often regarded as the architect of a rationally-ordered and civilized liberalism, this book demonstrates that Locke's thought is culpable for the rather uncivilized expressions of political engagement seen recently in America. By relying upon Eric Voegelin's concept of pneumopathology, Locke is shown to be subtly constructing a liberal ideology and thereby individuals who approach liberalism as closed-minded ideologues, not as deeply responsible and mature citizens. Because Locke's citizens will be slogan chanters instead of deep thinkers, Locke's work does not create a liberalism that provides the best possible regime for humans, but a mere shadow of the best possible regime. In order to demonstrate this, nearly the entirety of Locke's political and other theoretical writings are analyzed, and a picture of Lockean individuals as irrationally selfish and incapable of communal dedication emerges. The problem with liberalism is not liberalism, but merely how it is advocated by Locke. Recommendations for improving the civility of political expression in liberal societies - and thereby liberalism itself - conclude this analysis of Locke's political thought and its effect on America today.