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

M.ヴェーバーにおけるネイションと国家－社会学としての政治学
Barbalet, Jack, Nation and State in Max Weber: Politics as Sociology. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 192 pp. 2023:2 (Routledge, UK) <687-582>
ISBN 978-1-03-240892-7 hard ¥35,612.- (税込) GB￡ 125.00 *

This book shows how Max Weber's perceptions of the social and political world he inhabited in Wilhelmine Germany were characterized by a nationalist commitment which coloured practically every aspect of his thought, including his social scientific writings and the formulations they expound. Exploring the consequences of Weber's ardent nationalism in a manner seldom acknowledged in existing scholarship, it considers the alignment of his commitment to liberalism and democracy with his devotion to the ideal of the German people as an ethno-racial community supported by a power-state, with the purpose of realizing the national interest of future generations of Germans. Through an analysis of a range of texts, the author contends that Weber's liberalism is not based on universalistic principles and that Weber considered the liberty he espoused to play an important role in securing the position of a political elite trained in parliamentary institutions, which are used to shape the citizenry in the pursuit of a patriotic commitment to an expansionist, imperial state. It will therefore appeal to scholars with interests in the history of sociology and classical social theory.

Poulsen, Frank Ejby, Cosmopolitan Republicanism in the French Revolution: The Political Thought of Anacharsis Cloots and Thomas Paine. 400 S. 2022:12 (de Gruyter Oldenbourg, GW) <687-584>
ISBN 978-3-11-077782-6 hard ¥16,465.- (税込) EUR 69.95 *

Scholars interpret the French Revolution as the beginning of nationalism. However, 19th-century scholars emphasised its cosmopolitanism with several actors. Two foreigners who received French citizenship, Anacharsis Cloots (1755-1794) and Thomas Paine (1737-1809), developed a universal republic. What were their ideas and how can we understand them in the intellectual and political context of their time? After presenting the first biography of Cloots in English, I explore the culture of pamphlets and oratory styles in order to demonstrate why we should take Cloots and Paine’s thought seriously. I then present the role of reason and science in constituting a universal solution. The debates of natural law and humanity are the paradigms that form any political thought in the eighteenth century. Finally, I show how their cosmopolitanism could be reconciled with republicanism, a tradition of thought limited to small states. In conclusion, I summarise how they debated cosmopolitan republicanism in the late eighteenth century and what we can learn from this. By arguing for the historical origins of cosmopolitan republicanism in the French Revolution, this book offers an alternative to the Kantian model for political theorists.

Hoefele, Andreas, Carl Schmitt und die Literatur. 523 S. 2022:8 (Duncker, GW) <687-353>
ISBN 978-3-428-18608-2 hard ¥11,745.- (税込) EUR 49.90 *

≫Carl Schmitt and Literature≪: Andreas Hoefele’s book is the first comprehensive account of the role of literature in the intellectual biography of the controversial jurist and political theorist Carl Schmitt. Identifying the writers, works and literary figures of greatest significance in each phase of Schmitt’s long life, Hoefele shows how literature was a key component in the development of Schmitt’s political thought and his mythical view of contemporary history as well as his own role in it.