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

Nour Sckell, Soraya / Ehrhardt, Damien (eds.), To Grasp the Whole World: Politics and Aesthetics before and after Alexander von Humboldt. (Beitraege zur Politischen Wissenschaft 201) 246 S. 2022:10 (Duncker, GW) <692-69>
ISBN 978-3-428-18500-9 paper ¥18,807.- (税込) EUR 79.90 *

マンデヴィルの寓話
Douglass, Robin, Mandeville's Fable: Pride, Hypocrisy, and Sociability. 256 pp. 2023:5 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <692-9>
ISBN 978-0-691-21867-0 hard ¥20,482.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-691-21917-2 paper ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Why we should take Bernard Mandeville seriously as a philosopherBernard Mandeville's The Fable of the Bees outraged its eighteenth-century audience by proclaiming that private vices lead to public prosperity. Today the work is best known as an early iteration of laissez-faire capitalism. In this book, Robin Douglass looks beyond the notoriety of Mandeville's great work to reclaim its status as one of the most incisive philosophical studies of human nature and the origin of society in the Enlightenment era. Focusing on Mandeville's moral, social, and political ideas, Douglass offers a revelatory account of why we should take Mandeville seriously as a philosopher.Douglass expertly reconstructs Mandeville's theory of how self-centred individuals, who care for their reputation and social standing above all else, could live peacefully together in large societies. Pride and shame are the principal motives of human behaviour, on this account, with a large dose of hypocrisy and self-deception lying behind our moral practices. In his analysis, Douglass attends closely to the changes between different editions of the Fable; considers Mandeville's arguments in light of objections and rival accounts from other eighteenth-century philosophers, including Shaftesbury, Hume, and Smith; and draws on more recent findings from social psychology.With this detailed and original reassessment of Mandeville's philosophy, Douglass shows how The Fable of the Bees-by shining a light on the dark side of human nature-has the power to unsettle readers even today.

Bienfait, Frits, Das politische Links und Rechts seit Antigone. (POLITICA - Schriftenreihe zur Politischen Wissenschaft 123) 144 S. 2023:1 (Kovac, GW) <692-476>
ISBN 978-3-339-13306-9 paper ¥13,605.- (税込) EUR 57.80 *

近現代戦略の新創造者
Brands, Hal (ed.), The New Makers of Modern Strategy: From the Ancient World to the Digital Age. 1184 pp. 2023:5 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <692-477>
ISBN 978-0-691-20438-3 hard ¥9,702.- (税込) US$ 45.00 *

The essential resource on military and political strategy and the making of the modern worldThe New Makers of Modern Strategy is the next generation of the definitive work on strategy and the key figures who have shaped the theory and practice of war and statecraft throughout the centuries. Featuring entirely new entries by a who's who of world-class scholars, this new edition provides global, comparative perspectives on strategic thought from antiquity to today, surveying both classical and current themes of strategy while devoting greater attention to the Cold War and post-9/11 eras. The contributors evaluate the timeless requirements of effective strategy while tracing the revolutionary changes that challenge the makers of strategy in the contemporary world. Amid intensifying global disorder, the study of strategy and its history has never been more relevant. The New Makers of Modern Strategy draws vital lessons from history's most influential strategists, from Thucydides and Sun Zi to Clausewitz, Napoleon, Churchill, Mao, Ben-Gurion, Andrew Marshall, Xi Jinping, and Qassem Soleimani.With contributions by Dmitry Adamsky, John Bew, Tami Davis Biddle, Hal Brands, Antulio J. Echevarria II, Elizabeth Economy, Charles Edel, Eric S. Edelman, Andrew Ehrhardt, Lawrence Freedman, John Lewis Gaddis, Francis J. Gavin, Christopher J. Griffin, Ahmed S. Hashim, Eric Helleiner, Wayne Wei-siang Hsieh, Seth G. Jones, Robert Kagan, Jonathan Kirshner, Matthew Kroenig, James Lacey, Guy Laron, Michael V. Leggiere, Margaret MacMillan, Tanvi Madan, Thomas G. Mahnken, Carter Malkasian, Daniel Marston, John H. Maurer, Walter Russell Mead, Michael Cotey Morgan, Mark Moyar, Williamson Murray, S.C.M. Paine, Sergey Radchenko, Iskander Rehman, Thomas Rid, Joshua Rovner, Priya Satia, Kori Schake, Matt J. Schumann, Brendan Simms, Jason K. Stearns, Hew Strachan, Sue Mi Terry, and Toshi Yoshihara.

Zwolinski, Matt / Tomasi, John, The Individualists: Radicals, Reactionaries, and the Struggle for the Soul of Libertarianism. 432 pp. 2023:4 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <692-484>
ISBN 978-0-691-15554-8 hard ¥7,546.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

A sweeping history of libertarian thought, from radical anarchists to conservative defenders of the status quoLibertarianism emerged in the mid-nineteenth century with an unwavering commitment to progressive causes, from women's rights and the fight against slavery to anti-colonialism and Irish emancipation. Today, this movement founded on the principle of individual liberty finds itself divided by both progressive and reactionary elements vying to claim it as their own. The Individualists is the untold story of a political doctrine continually reshaped by fierce internal tensions, bold and eccentric personalities, and shifting political circumstances.Matt Zwolinski and John Tomasi trace the history of libertarianism from its origins as a radical progressive ideology in the 1850s to its crisis of identity today. They examine the doctrine's evolution through six defining themes: private property, skepticism of authority, free markets, individualism, spontaneous order, and individual liberty. They show how the movement took a turn toward conservativism during the Cold War, when the dangers of communism at home and abroad came to dominate libertarian thinking. Zwolinski and Tomasi reveal a history that is wider, more diverse, and more contentious than many of us realize.A groundbreaking work of scholarship, The Individualists uncovers the neglected roots of a movement that has championed the poor and marginalized since its founding, but whose talk of equal liberty has often been bent to serve the interests of the rich and powerful.

Lane, Melissa, Of Rule and Office: Plato's Ideas of the Political. 472 pp. 2023:6 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <692-16>
ISBN 978-0-691-19215-4 hard ¥10,769.- (税込) US$ 49.95 *

A constitutionalist reading of Plato's political thoughtPlato famously defends the rule of knowledge. Knowledge, for him, is of the good. But what is rule? In this study, Melissa Lane reveals how political office and rule were woven together in Greek vocabulary and practices that both connected and distinguished between rule in general and office as a constitutionally limited kind of rule in particular. In doing so, Lane shows Plato to have been deeply concerned with the roles and relationships between rulers and ruled. Adopting a longstanding Greek expectation that a ruler should serve the good of the ruled, Plato's major political dialogues-the Republic, the Statesman, and Laws-explore how different kinds of rule might best serve that good. With this book, Lane offers the first account of the clearly marked vocabulary of offices at the heart of all three of these dialogues, explaining how such offices fit within the broader organization and theorizing of rule.Lane argues that taking Plato's interest in rule and office seriously reveals tyranny as ultimately a kind of anarchy, lacking the order as well as the purpose of rule. When we think of tyranny in this way, we see how Plato invokes rule and office as underpinning freedom and friendship as political values, and how Greek slavery shaped Plato's account of freedom. Reading Plato both in the Greek context and in dialogue with contemporary thinkers, Lane argues that rule and office belong at the center of Platonic, Greek, and contemporary political thought.

シェリングの政治的なものの哲学
Huehn, Lore / Schwenzfeuer, Sebastian (Hrsg.), "Wir muessen also auch ueber den Staat hinaus!": Schellings Philosophie des Politischen. (Staatsverstaendnisse 128) 300 S. 2022:11 (Nomos, GW) <692-23>
ISBN 978-3-8487-4028-4 paper ¥15,065.- (税込) EUR 64.00 *

Anders als seine Weggefaehrten Hegel und Fichte hat sich Schelling eher randstaendig mit staats- und rechtsphilosophischen Fragen befasst. Seinem vorrangigen Interesse an einer fundamentalontologischen Priorisierung der menschlichen Freiheit duerfte es geschuldet sein, dass er diese im spannungsreichen Verhaeltnis zu uebergreifenden Themenstellungen in den Blick nimmt: zur Natur als ermoeglichendem Grund menschlicher Freiheit, zur Konzeption der johanneischen Kirche, zum Diskurs um die Normativitaet von Gut und Boese im Leben der Moderne. Zeit seines Lebens haelt Schelling an Ideen von organischer Einheit, Ganzheit und Identitaet fest, in deren Schatten die Wirklichkeit von Staaten, die er fuer etwas bloss Mechanisches haelt, unterbelichtet bleibt. Mit Beitraegen von Alexander Bilda, Christoph Binkelmann, Christian Danz, Franck Fischbach, Hans Joerg Sandkuehler, Ryan Scheerlinck, Johannes-Georg Schuelein, Wolfgang Schroeder und Guenter Zoeller.

Sonenscher, Michael, After Kant: The Romans, the Germans, and the Moderns in the History of Political Thought. 572 pp. 2023:7 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <692-29>
ISBN 978-0-691-24562-1 hard ¥26,950.- (税込) US$ 125.00 *
ISBN 978-0-691-24563-8 paper ¥11,858.- (税込) US$ 55.00 *

Tracing the origins of modern political thought through three sets of arguments over history, morality, and freedomIn this wide-ranging work, Michael Sonenscher traces the origins of modern political thought and ideologies to a question, raised by Immanuel Kant, about what is involved in comparing individual human lives to the whole of human history. How can we compare them, or understand the results of the comparison? Kant's question injected a new, future-oriented dimension into existing discussions of prevailing norms, challenging their orientation toward the past. This reversal made Kant's question a bridge between three successive sets of arguments: between the supporters of the ancients and moderns, the classics and romantics, and the Romans and the Germans. Sonenscher argues that the genealogy of modern political ideologies-from liberalism to nationalism to communism-can be connected to the resulting discussions of time, history, and values, mainly in France but also in Germany, Switzerland, and Britain, in the period straddling the French and Industrial revolutions.What is the genuinely human content of human history? Everything begins somewhere-democracy with the Greeks, or the idea of a res publica with the Romans-but these local arrangements have become vectors of values that are, apparently, universal. The intellectual upheaval that Sonenscher describes involved a struggle to close the gap, highlighted by Kant, between individual lives and human history. After Kant is an examination of that struggle's enduring impact on the history and the historiography of political thought.

Terada, Rei, Metaracial: Hegel, Antiblackness, and Political Identity. 224 pp. 2023:2 (U. Chicago Pr., US) <692-30>
ISBN 978-0-226-82369-0 hard ¥21,344.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *
ISBN 978-0-226-82371-3 paper ¥5,605.- (税込) US$ 26.00 *

A formidable critical project on the limits of antiracist philosophy. Exploring anxieties raised by Atlantic slavery in radical enlightenment literature concerned about political unfreedom in Europe, Metaracial argues that Hegel's philosophy assuages these anxieties for the left. Interpreting Hegel beside Rousseau, Kant, Mary Shelley, and Marx, Terada traces Hegel's transposition of racial hierarchy into a hierarchy of stances toward reality. By doing so, she argues, Hegel is simultaneously antiracist and antiblack. In dialogue with Black Studies, psychoanalysis, and critical theory, Metaracial offers a genealogy of the limits of antiracism.