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

Atanassow, Ewa, Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization. 272 pp. 2022:10 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <680-801>
ISBN 978-0-691-19110-2 hard ¥8,613.- (税込) US$ 39.95 *

How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours argues that Alexis de Tocqueville, one of democracy's greatest champions and most incisive critics, can guide us forward.Drawing on Tocqueville's major works and lesser-known policy writings, Ewa Atanassow shines a bright light on the foundations of liberal democracy. She argues that its prospects depend on how we tackle three dilemmas that were as urgent in Tocqueville's day as they are in ours: how to institutionalize popular sovereignty, how to define nationhood, and how to grasp the possibility and limits of global governance. These are pivotal but often neglected dimensions of Tocqueville's work, and this fresh look at his writings provides a powerful framework for addressing the tensions between liberalism and democracy in the twenty-first century.Recovering a richer liberalism capable of weathering today's political storms, Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours explains how we can reclaim nationalism as a liberal force and reimagine sovereignty in a global age-and do so with one of democracy's most discerning thinkers as our guide.

Dombrowski, Daniel, Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy: Rawls and Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas. (Studies in Moral Philosophy 17) 206 pp. 2022:9 (Brill, NE) <680-802>
ISBN 978-90-04-52024-0 hard ¥27,071.- (税込) EUR 115.00

John Rawls is the most influential 20th century political philosopher, but critics have complained about the ahistorical character of his approach. The purpose of this book is to argue that these critics are, at best, only half correct.Pre-Liberal Political Philosophy concentrates on four pre-liberal thinkers who are major figures in the history of philosophy and who are surprisingly formative in the development of Rawls's mature political philosophy: Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.

Fluegel-Martinsen, Oliver / Joerke, Dirk (Hrsg.), Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte: Rainer Schmalz-Bruns zum Gedenken. (Schriftenreihe der Sektion Politische Theorien und Ideengeschichte der Deutschen Vereinigung fuer Politische Wissenschaft 41) 477 S. 2022:3 (Nomos, GW) <680-803>
ISBN 978-3-8487-8464-6 paper ¥23,304.- (税込) EUR 99.00 *

Die Beitraege des vorliegenden Bandes gedenken Rainer Schmalz-Bruns‘, indem sie drei wesentliche Dimensionen seines Denkens weiterverfolgen: In Teil I stehen Anschluesse an Rainer Schmalz-Bruns‘ Werk im Zentrum. Teil II dient einer umfassenden und kontroversen Diskussion der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte und ihrer Beziehung zur Politikwissenschaft. Teil III schreitet Forschungsfelder und Gegenstaende der Politischen Theorie und Ideengeschichte ab. Ein Anhang versammelt Nachrufe und Erinnerungen. Mit Beitraegen von Mathias Albert, Harald Bluhm, Hauke Brunkhorst, Hubertus Buchstein, Alex Demirovic, Oliver Eberl, Karsten Fischer, Oliver Fluegel-Martinsen, Rainer Forst, Dirk Joerke, Ansgar Klein, Michele Knodt, Bettina Koch, Regina Kreide, Claudia Landwehr, Marcus Llanque, Franziska Martinsen, Peter Niesen, Frank Nullmeier, Emanuel Richter, Thomas Saretzki, Andreas Vasilache und Michael Zuern.

Holman, Christopher, Hobbes and the Democratic Imaginary. 328 pp. 2022:10 (State U. New York Pr., US) <680-804>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9043-4 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Hoentsch, Andreas / Woehrle, Patrick (Hrsg.), Provisorische Ewigkeit: Staatstheoretische Reflexionen der fruehen Bundesrepublik. (Staatsverstaendnisse 162) 277 S. 2022:4 (Nomos, GW) <680-505>
ISBN 978-3-8487-8894-1 paper ¥13,888.- (税込) EUR 59.00 *

Der Band macht staatstheoretische Reflexionen der fruehen Bundesrepublik in neuer Weise zugaenglich. Ist die These ihrer schleichenden Entwicklung von einem ?Provisorium“ hin zu einem erstaunlich stabilen Staatsgebilde bisher zumeist mit Blick auf einzelne Disziplinen, politische Stroemungen oder zentrale Denkschulen entfaltet worden, so zeigen die hier versammelten Beitraege, dass die Versuche, dem neuen Staatswesen einen verfassungstheoretischen Gehalt zu geben, deutlich vielfaeltiger und veraestelter ausfielen. Besonderer Akzent wird dabei auf die Querverbindungen gelegt, die sich zwischen historischen, politikwissenschaftlichen, soziologischen, oekonomischen und juristischen Problembezuegen entdecken lassen. Mit Beitraegen von Ass.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Biebricher, Dr. Andreas Hoentsch, Marwin Kerlen, Dr. Sebastian Liebold, Dr. Martin G. Maier, Lukas Potsch, Dr. Astrid Seville, Dr. Rike Sinder, Dr. Joris Steg und Dr. Patrick Woehrle.

A.スミスのアメリカ－いかにスコットランドの哲学者がアメリカの資本主義のアイコンになったか
Liu, Glory M., Adam Smith's America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism. 384 pp. 2022:11 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <680-17>
ISBN 978-0-691-20381-2 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

The unlikely story of how Americans canonized Adam Smith as the patron saint of free marketsOriginally published in 1776, Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations was lauded by America's founders as a landmark work of Enlightenment thinking about national wealth, statecraft, and moral virtue. Today, Smith is one of the most influential icons of economic thought in America. Glory Liu traces how generations of Americans have read, reinterpreted, and weaponized Smith's ideas, revealing how his popular image as a champion of American-style capitalism and free markets is a historical invention.Drawing on a trove of illuminating archival materials, Liu tells the story of how an unassuming Scottish philosopher captured the American imagination and played a leading role in shaping American economic and political ideas. She shows how Smith became known as the father of political economy in the nineteenth century and was firmly associated with free trade, and how, in the aftermath of the Great Depression, the Chicago School of Economics transformed him into the preeminent theorist of self-interest and the miracle of free markets. Liu explores how a new generation of political theorists and public intellectuals has sought to recover Smith's original intentions and restore his reputation as a moral philosopher.Charting the enduring fascination that this humble philosopher from Scotland has held for American readers over more than two centuries, Adam Smith's America shows how Smith continues to be a vehicle for articulating perennial moral and political anxieties about modern capitalism.