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

Barber, Cary Michael, Politics in the Roman Republic: Perspectives from Niebuhr to Gelzer. (Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Ancient History) 282 pp. 2022:9 (Brill, NE) <688-692>
ISBN 978-90-04-53000-3 paper ¥17,017.- (税込) EUR 70.00 *

Politics in the Roman Republic rewrites the field's modern historiographical narrative through critical re-examinations of four foundational historians: Barthold Niebuhr, Theodor Mommsen, Friedrich Muenzer, and Matthias Gelzer. Each chapter traces these scholars' impact and offers novel (re)interpretations of their enduring frameworks, conceptual and methodological alike.

Lok, Matthijs, Europe against Revolution: Conservatism, Enlightenment, and the Making of the Past. 368 pp. 2023:2 (Oxford U. Pr., UK) <688-20>
ISBN 978-0-19-887213-9 hard ¥28,820.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00 *

Contemporary Europe seems to be divided between progressive cosmopolitans sympathetic to the European Union and the ideals of the Enlightenment, and counter-enlightened conservative nationalists extolling the virtues of homelands threatened by globalised elites and mass migration. This study seeks to uncover the roots of historically informed ideas of Europe, while at the same time underlining the fundamental differences between the writings of the older counter-revolutionary Europeanists and their self-appointed successors and detractors in the twenty-first century. In the decades around 1800, the era of the French Revolution, counter-revolutionary authors from all over Europe defended European civilisation against the onslaught of nationalist revolutionaries, bent on the destruction of the existing order, or so they believed. In opposition to the new revolutionary world of universal and abstract principles, the counter-revolutionary publicists proclaimed the concept of a gradually developing European society and political order, founded on a set of historical and - ultimately divine - institutions that had guaranteed Europe's unique freedom, moderation, diversity, and progress since the fall of the Roman Empire. These counter-revolutionary Europeanists drew on the cosmopolitan Enlightenment and simultaneously criticized its alleged revolutionary legacy. Throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these ideas of European history and civilisation were rediscovered and adapted to new political contexts, shaping in manifold ways our contested idea of European history and memory until today.

Marramao, Giacomo, The Bewitched World of Capital: Economic Crisis and the Metamorphosis of the Political. Ed. & tr. by M. Mandarini. (Historical Materialism Book Series 273) 304 pp. 2022:12 (Brill, NE) <688-21>
ISBN 978-90-04-27304-7 hard ¥29,658.- (税込) EUR 122.00 *

Capital is a chameleon that assumes different guises while maintaining the same logic, exploiting crisis as an opportunity for regeneration. Yet each transformation opens a passage for radical conflict and new revolutionary theories and subjects. This is particularly true of the critical passage from the 1920s to the 1930s, which Giacomo Marramao presents as an incandescent laboratory of theoretical and practical transformations and fierce confrontations. Moving from Austro-Marxism to Frankfurt School Critical Theory, from Hilferding to Grossmann, and Max Weber to Carl Schmitt, The Bewitched World of Capital shows how 'the Political' was remade in the passage from free-market capitalism to mass society, throwing new light on forms of domination and conflict that also traverse our present.

Prieto Lopez, Leopoldo J., Projections of Spanish Jesuit Scholasticism on British Thought: New Horizons in Politics, Law and Rights. (Jesuit Studies 36) 410 pp. 2022:12 (Brill, NE) <688-22>
ISBN 978-90-04-51607-6 hard ¥33,790.- (税込) EUR 139.00

Spanish Jesuits such as Francisco Suarez (1548-1617), Jose de Acosta (1540-1600), Pedro de Ribadeneira (1526-1611) and Juan de Mariana (1536-1624) had a powerful impact on English thinkers of the magnitude of John Locke (1632-1704), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), Robert Persons (1546-1610), Algernon Sidney (1623-1683), and later, William Robertson (1721-1793), Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859) and Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953). An influence that was sometimes hidden and always controversial. This work highlights the importance of this influence regarding thought on politics, law and natural rights. A constitutionalist understanding of political power, the recognition and promotion of innate rights and the necessary subjection of rulers to the law, all form part of the important legacy of these scholastic doctors for European intellectual heritage. Contributors include: Rafael Ale Ruiz, Francisco T. Baciero Ruiz, Francisco Castilla Urbano, Jose Luis Cendejas Bueno, Alfonso Diaz Vera, Francisco Javier Gomez Diez, Cecilia Font de Villanueva, Leon M. Gomez Rivas, Fermin del Pino Diaz, Leopoldo J. Prieto Lopez, Daniel Schwartz, Lorena Velasco Guerrero, and Maria Idoya Zorroza Huarte.