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

Burnand, Leonard, Benjamin Constant. (Biographies) 350 p. 2022:3 (Perrin, FR) <677-744>
ISBN 978-2-262-06497-6 paper ¥5,414.- (税込) EUR 23.00 *

Kellow, Geoffrey C., The Wisdom of the Commons: The Education of Citizens from Plato's Republic to The Wealth of Nations. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 242 pp. 2022:3 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-745>
ISBN 978-3-030-95871-8 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99 *

The Wisdom of the Commons examines the history and philosophy of civic education as the essential political part of liberal education. This study distinguishes itself from other works on liberal and civic education by focusing explicitly on the civic and liberal education of those citizens who are not destined for prominent positions within politics and government but are still a part of and relevant to political society. It considers this strand of liberal and civic education, in both its ancient and modern iterations, by focusing on the philosophies of Plato, Cicero, Locke, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.

Kennedy, Simon P., Reforming the Law of Nature: The Secularisation of Political Thought, 1532-1689. (Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History) 216 pp. 2022:3 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <677-746>
ISBN 978-1-4744-9398-7 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and conceptions of the origins of politicsReforming the Law of Nature is a stimulating study of the development of natural law ideas in the early modern period. The book brings sixteenth and seventeenth century jurisprudence, theology and political philosophy into conversation with one another to explore the ways in which developments in political thought in the Reformed Protestant tradition affected the emergence of a secular understanding of political life.

Slomp, Gabriella, Hobbes Against Friendship: The Modern Marginalisation of an Ancient Political Concept. (International Political Theory) 174 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-747>
ISBN 978-3-030-95314-0 hard ¥25,890.- (税込) EUR 109.99

This book explores why and how Thomas Hobbes ? the 17th century founder of political science -- contributed to the modern marginalisation of ‘friendship’, a concept that stood in the foreground of ancient moral and political thought and that is currently undergoing a revival. The study shows that Hobbes did not question the occurrence of friendship; rather, he rejected friendship as an explanatory and normative principle of peace and cooperation. Hobbes’s stance was influential because it captured the spirit of modernity- its individualism, nominalism, practical scepticism, and materialism. Hobbes’s legacy has a bearing on contemporary debates about civic, international and global friendship.

Y.C.ザルカ他編　ホッブズ－支配と抵抗の間の権力
Zarka, Yves Charles / Pang, Liang (dir.), Hobbes: le pouvoir entre domination et resistance. (Hobbes supplementa) 152 p. 2022:3 (Vrin, FR) <677-16>
ISBN 978-2-7116-3053-0 paper ¥4,237.- (税込) EUR 18.00 *

古典派のリベラルな政治経済学を取り戻す
Ward, Lee, Recovering Classical Liberal Political Economy: Natural Rights and the Harmony of Interests. (Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History) 264 pp. 2022:3 (Edinburgh U. Pr., UK) <677-199>
ISBN 978-1-399-50059-3 hard ¥25,641.- (税込) GB￡ 90.00 *

This book re-examines the philosophical roots of classical liberal political economy and its relationship to the problem of empire and the emancipation of women. It proposes an interpretive model based upon the interconnection between distinct theories of natural rights and the harmony of interests. It takes a fresh look at classical liberalism by exploring economic arguments in thinkers like Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Paine, John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon and by highlighting the importance of Bernard Mandeville and Adam Smith in the development of interest-based liberalism. It also explores lesser-known economic works by thinkers such as John Locke, David Hume, and John Stuart Mill in light of their more well-known political writings. With classical liberal assumptions still prominent in contemporary debates about economic justice, it is vital for every democratic citizen to understand the complex origins and development of the ideas that did so much to shape our world today.

Weimer, Walter B., Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism. Volume II: Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 359 pp. 2022:5 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-200>
ISBN 978-3-030-95476-5 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This second volume, Basics of a Liberal Psychological, Social and Moral Order, overviews developments in the theory of spontaneously ordered complex phenomena, the psychology of inference and expectation, the nature of anticipatory systems in the psychological and economic domains, and the evolution of scientific thought and knowledge. The book applies these insights to the nature of markets and morals, what education should consist of, and the problems of alienation and our existential malaise as we move into an increasingly abstract society. In doing so it also shows the unscientific nature of the rationalist constructivist approach of progressivism, and the disastrous consequences that would arise from following these positions. The book shows the complex interplay between top-down or directed structures (what Hayek and others have called taxis organizations) and far more complex orders of the social or psychological cosmos in which they are embedded as constituents. It details how the key to the market orders of society depends upon their capacity to impersonally convey information to agents. Markets can serve unknown and unforeseen ends for individuals who do not know or have contact with other market participants. This is a vastly more powerful and productive system than anything that can arise in a tribal or face-to-face organization limited to personal contact, such as the sort proposed by the constructivists. The book will be of interest to academics and scholars in classical liberalism, economics and political philosophy.

Weimer, Walter, Retrieving Liberalism from Rationalist Constructivism. Volume I: History and its Betrayal. (Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism) 300 pp. 2022:6 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <677-201>
ISBN 978-3-030-94857-3 hard ¥32,952.- (税込) EUR 139.99

This first volume, History and its Betrayal, traces the development of major themes of liberalism from the increase in human population beyond the limits of the face-to-face society of tribalism and small groups up until the present day. It shows that the principles underlying liberalism are the evolutionary development of social organizations that have resulted from the complexity of human action rather than any conscious design or purpose. This book draws out the differences between the classical liberalism dependent upon spontaneous and tacit ordering as a result of evolution, and the explicit or conscious or directed version of progressivism. It shows that the most important recent developments in the philosophy of rationality and the methodology of scientific research, as well as in evolutionary epistemology and the philosophy of biology, actually stem from the theories of complex social organization of the moralists such as Hume, Ferguson, and Smith. The book shows clearly that classical liberalism was never refuted?indeed, no attempt to do so has been offered?it has simply been ignored in favor of programs which sound beneficial and soothing but which cannot be instituted without returning to tribalism.