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

Friedman, Jeffrey (ed.), The Longing for Total Revolution Reconsidered: Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity. 120 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) <681-635>
ISBN 978-1-03-235651-8 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

In The Longing for Total Revolution: Philosophic Sources of Discontent from Rousseau to Marx and Nietzsche (1986), the eminent intellectual historian and political theorist Bernard Yack offered a sweeping reinterpretation of modern thought. Yack argued that Rousseau prompted a line of philosophy that continued through Kant, Hegel, Marx and Nietzsche, which viewed the essential spirit of modernity as dehumanizing, and therefore implied, in a matter that became increasingly clear over time, that a total revolution against modernity is necessary.In this volume, seven political theorists and historians, including Yack himself, reconsider the book's substantive and methodological innovations, its limitations, and its current relevance. Contributors to the volume discuss, inter alia, left Kantianism in historical context, the theological origins of the longing for total revolution, the question of whether the tradition identified by Yack is connected to twentieth-century totalitarianism, and the unique form of critical genealogy pioneered by Yack's book. The volume concludes with Yack's response to the other contributors' chapters.This book was originally published as a special issue of the Critical Review.

Goldsmith, Zachary R., Fanaticism: A Political Philosophical History. 208 pp. 2022:7 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <681-636>
ISBN 978-0-8122-5403-7 hard ¥10,769.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

As the post-WWII liberal democratic consensus comes under increasing assault around the globe, Zachary R. Goldsmith investigates a timely topic: the reemergence of fanaticism. His book demonstrates how the concept of fanaticism, so often flippantly invoked with little forethought, actually has a long history stretching back to ancient times. Tracing this history through the Reformation and the Enlightenment to our present moment of political extremism run amok, Goldsmith offers a novel account of fanaticism, detailing its transformation from a primarily religious to a political concept around the time of the French Revolution. He draws on the work of Immanuel Kant, Edmund Burke, and Fyodor Dostoevsky-all keen observers of fanaticism, and especially its political variant-in order to explore this crucial moment in the development of political fanaticism. Examining conceptualizations of fanaticism from different geographical, political, temporal, and contextual backgrounds, Goldsmith reveals how the concept has changed over time and resists easy definition. Nevertheless, his analysis of the writings of key figures from the tradition of political thought regarding fanaticism yields a complex and nuanced understanding of the concept that allows us to productively identify and observe its most salient characteristics: irrationality, messianism, the embrace of abstraction, the desire for novelty, the pursuit of perfection, a lack of limits in politics, the embrace of violence, certainty, passion, and its perennial attraction to intellectuals. Goldsmith's political-philosophical history of fanaticism offers us an argument and warning against fanaticism itself, demonstrating that fanaticism is antidemocratic, illiberal, antipolitical, and never necessary.

〔英語版〕服部龍二著『大平正芳－理念と外交』
Hattori, Ryuji, Japan and the Origins of the Asia-Pacific Order: Masayoshi Ohira's Diplomacy and Philosophy. 167 pp. 2022:4 (Springer, GW) <681-637>
ISBN 978-981-19-1901-5 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99 *

This book analyzes Ohira's ideology, philosophy, and actions as a politician and a minister, based on primary sources from Japan and the USA, and makes a significant contribution to the field of Japanese political and diplomatic history. This book is the first critical biography to chart Masayoshi Ohira's life and work, with a focus on his political philosophy, and how he sought to create a new order in the Asia-Pacific region, framing a plan for solidarity across the Pacific Rim. If a statesman is a politician who has made diplomacy their life's work, then Ohira can be regarded as the first Japanese statesman of the modern era. While this ambition remained unfulfilled, Ohira's involvement in foreign policy was long and intensive-and highly influential-on the region. One of only two postwar prime ministers to have served as foreign minister for two terms, he attempted to balance the pursuit of a new order in the Pacific Rim with Asian diplomacy and focused on cooperation with the USA without becoming overly reliant on it. With the new availability of original documents decades after his death, this book has become possible, enabling the author to systematically follow and record Ohira's diplomatic vision. Combining history, political philosophy, political science, and international relations, this book is of appeal to history scholars and students of Japan, as well as of the foreign relations of countries such as the USA, China, and Korea.

Haworth, Alan, Political Philosophy After 1945. 200 pp. 2022:11 (Routledge, UK) <681-638>
ISBN 978-1-138-08466-7 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-1-138-08470-4 paper ¥9,683.- (税込) GB￡ 33.99 *

By the mid-twentieth century interest in political philosophy had dwindled, with one writer even pronouncing the subject 'dead'. Things were to change in 1971, when the subject experienced a renaissance with the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice. The story didn't end with Rawls however, as other avenues through which to approach the subject became available.In Political Philosophy After 1945 Alan Haworth tells the story of political philosophy from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-first. First, he considers why the subject should have become marginalised by mainstream philosophical movements such as logical positivism and the 'ordinary language philosophy' inspired by Wittgenstein. Subsequent chapters explain the fundamentals of Rawls's theory, and then compare and contrast his contribution with that of other philosophers from across the political spectrum. These are followed by chapters in which alternative approaches are examined. There are in-depth accounts of works by Hannah Arendt and Alasdair MacIntyre, as well as an evaluation of the claim that political philosophy exemplifies the pursuit of a moribund 'Enlightenment project'.Throughout the book, Haworth strikes a balance between historical perspective and close analysis of major texts, and he is careful to emphasise the relevance of theoretical issues to questions which arise beyond theory. As such, Political Philosophy After 1945 is essential reading for students and scholars of political philosophy, but also serves as an introduction for students from across the Humanities and Social Sciences approaching the topic for the first time.

Nour Sckell, Soraya / Ehrhardt, Damien (eds.), Cosmos, Cosmopolitanism and Cosmopolitics throughout History. (Beitraege zur Politischen Wissenschaft 200) 256 S. 2022:6 (Duncker, GW) <681-639>
ISBN 978-3-428-18499-6 paper ¥19,984.- (税込) EUR 84.90 *

The relationship between human beings and the cosmos has developed in divergent mythological, poetic, religious, philosophical, scientific, political-juridical, and ecological ways over time. Throughout history the cosmos has been subjected to a scientific perspective as well as to the poetic gaze, both of which contemplate the mysteries of the night, the comets, the king-sun, the moon, and infinity. Several other concepts, such as cosmology, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics, cosmopolitan citizenship, cosmopolitan law, and cosmic consciousness are derived from the idea of the cosmos. Cosmopolitanism relates to the ethical ideal of belonging, as a citizen of the world, to a universal community, beyond any links to particular communities. Cosmopolitics corresponds to a dual concern with affording local politics a cosmopolitan dimension and ensuring that global politics has a democratic dimension. This book intends to discuss the various perspectives on the cosmos, cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitics and other related concepts.

Friedman, Jeffrey (ed.), Isaiah Berlin. 238 pp. 2022:10 (Routledge, UK) <681-41>
ISBN 978-1-03-235564-1 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

Isaiah Berlin's liberalism seems both dated and essential in an era of ideological extremes. Berlin's vision of liberalism rejected metaphysics, philosophies of history, and particular conceptions of the good, setting a pattern for Anglo-American political thought that is still influential and may offer resources for understanding the resurgence of ideology in the twenty-first century, but one that also seems to be firmly embedded in the Cold War opposition of liberalism against Marxism.In this volume, ten political theorists reconsider Berlin's thought-especially his famous essay, "Two Concepts of Liberty"-in the light of contemporary political developments such as populism. Several contributors focus on Berlin's neglected idea of political "maturity" as holding a key to his thought, making it an important site of contestation over his legacy. Others analyse Berlin's notoriously fraught definition of liberty and his understanding of value pluralism; situate him as a Cold War liberal; and relate his work to that of contemporaries such as Raymond Aron and Leo Strauss.This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review.

C.シュミットの制度理論
Croce, Mariano / Salvatore, Andrea, Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory: The Political Power of Normality. 170 pp. 2022:7 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <681-419>
ISBN 978-1-316-51138-1 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

In 1922, Carl Schmitt penned Political Theology, the celebrated essay in which he elaborated on the notorious theory that the heart of politics lies in the sovereign power to issue emergency measures that suspend the legal order. Ever since, Schmitt's thinking has largely been identified with this concept, despite him renouncing it over time. Offering a comprehensive analysis of Schmitt's writings, Carl Schmitt's Institutional Theory provides an ambitious, novel perspective on Carl Schmitt and his legal and political thinking. By delving into Schmitt's output over his decades-long career, Mariano Croce and Andrea Salvatore explore Schmitt's varied and developing thoughts on exceptionalism, societal pluralism and the law as the progenitor and enforcer of normality. Challenging dominant interpretations, Croce and Salvatore dethrone the false centrality of certain key texts, and instead provide a more unified, coherent account of his institutional theory from across his long and controversial career.

Villinger, Ingeborg, Gretha Juenger und die Sache selbst: Ein Portraet mit Carl Schmitt. (Carl-Schmitt-Vorlesungen 5) 106 S. 2022:6 (Duncker, GW) <681-422>
ISBN 978-3-428-18625-9 paper ¥5,860.- (税込) EUR 24.90 *

Das Verhaeltnis zwischen Carl Schmitt und Ernst Juenger wurde ueber eine jahrzehntelange, politisch wechselvolle Wegstrecke durch die Akteurin Gretha Juenger beeinflusst, wie die Nahaufnahme dieser ausgepraegt triadischen Konstellation zeigt. Dabei entfachten vor 1945 vorwiegend politische Versuchungen im Verhaeltnis zum Nationalsozialismus intensive Spannungen in der ≫Sache selbst≪ ? sei es im umkaempften Verhaeltnis von Recht und Politik oder im Rahmen des institutionellen Gefueges, was nicht ohne Wirkung auf die privaten Relationen blieb. Nach 1945 wurden die spannungsgeladenen Unstimmigkeiten nicht gegenstandslos, sondern drangen in tiefere, grundsaetzlichere Schichten vor und provozierten zugleich eine neue Anordnung des triadischen Bezugssystems, da Gretha Juenger mit ihrer Sicht der Dinge Carl Schmitt vielfach deutlich naeher stand als ihr(em) Ehemann. Dass dennoch Carl Schmitt 1953 abrupt den Kontakt zu ihr ? und nicht mit Ernst Juenger ? abbrach, ist ein anderes, durchaus schillerndes Kapitel asymmetrischer Machtdynamik zwischen den Geschlechtern, deren Ablaeufe hier erstmals vollstaendig praesentiert werden.