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

ドイツの観念論の政治学
Yeomans, Christopher, The Politics of German Idealism: Law and Social Change at the Turn of the 19th Century. 256 pp. 2023 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-32>
ISBN 978-0-19-766730-9 hard ¥17,894.- (税込) US$ 83.00 *

The Politics of German Idealism reconstructs the political philosophies of Kant, Fichte and Hegel against the background of their social-historical context. Christopher Yeomans' guiding thought is to understand German Idealist political philosophy as political, i.e., as a set of policy options and institutional designs aimed at a broadly but distinctively German set of social problems. 'Political' here refers to use of the state's power to enforce law, and 'social' to the norms and groups which are regulated by that enforcement, but which also antedate or exceed that enforcement. Because the power to enforce law is very much still being actualized by state-building in the period at issue, 'political' refers quite narrowly to a certain kind of practical legal project rather than to a perennial set of problems from the history of philosophy. By way of method, Yeomans claims that to reveal the political nature of German Idealist political philosophy requires understanding German Idealism as both taking place in and conceptualizing its own historical present--this is the sense in which it is not only political, but political philosophy. The most important general feature of the historical present of the German Idealists is the way in which the period from 1770 to 1830 was a transitional period between early and late modernity, a so-called saddle period (Sattelzeit) in which the metaphor is of a Bergsattel or shallow valley between two mountain peaks.

Goupy, Marie / Riviere, Yann, De la dictature a l'etat d'exception: approche historique et philosophique. (Collection de l'Ecole francaise de Rome 601) 2022:12 (Ecole francaise de Rome, IT) <696-327>
ISBN 978-2-7283-1499-7 paper ¥7,532.- (税込) EUR 32.00

Hoercher, Ferenc (ed.), 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture: Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867. 288 pp. 2023:7 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <696-480>
ISBN 978-1-350-20291-7 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th century (1790-1920). Organised around key political thinkers, the book considers the most significant paradigms of thought associated with these figures and the critical political events of the day. Beginning with an introductory overview of 19th-century Hungary in a European context, which includes the main features of Hungarian political thought, 19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture explores the fundamental characteristics of the country's political system and the geopolitical background to political discourse in the region at the time. The contributors reflect on the stories of some of the most influential voices, as well as their networks, impacts and legacies. Through this, the book is able to offer novel insights into how Western political culture was perceived and adapted in a country long considered by many to belong to the European periphery.

Karp, Masha, George Orwell and Russia. 312 pp. 2023:6 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <696-481>
ISBN 978-1-78831-713-9 hard ¥18,518.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00 *
ISBN 978-1-78831-712-2 paper ¥6,264.- (税込) GB￡ 21.99 *

For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp - Russian Features Editor at the BBC World Service for over a decade - explores how Orwell's work was received in Russia, when it percolated into the country even under censorship. Suggesting a new approach to the controversial 'Orwell's list' of 1949, Karp puts into context the articles and letters written by Orwell at the time. She sheds light on how the ideas of totalitarianism exposed in Orwell's writing took root in Russia and, in doing so, helps us to understand the contemporary political reality. As Vladimir Putin's actions continue to shock the West, it is clear we are witnessing the next transformation of totalitarianism, as predicted and described by Orwell. Now, over 70 years after Orwell's death, his writing, at least as far as Russia is concerned, remains as timely and urgent as it has ever been.

Macaulay, Catharine, Catharine Macaulay: Political Writings. Ed. by M. Skjoensberg. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 329 pp. 2023:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-482>
ISBN 978-1-00-930748-2 hard ¥22,792.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-930744-4 paper ¥7,119.- (税込) GB￡ 24.99 *

The writings of republican historian and political pamphleteer Catharine Macaulay (1731-91) played a central role in debates about political reform in the Age of Enlightenment and Revolution. A critical reader of Hume's bestselling History of England, she broke new ground in historiography by defending the regicide of Charles I and became an inspiration for many luminaries of the American and French revolutions. While her historical and political works engaged with thinkers from Hobbes and Locke to Bolingbroke and Burke, she also wrote about religion, philosophy, education and animal rights. Influencing Wollstonecraft and proto-feminism, she argued that there were no moral differences between men and women and that boys and girls should receive the same education. This book is the first scholarly edition of Catharine Macaulay's published writings and includes all her known pamphlets along with extensive selections from her longer historical and political works.

Sintomer, Yves, The Government of Chance: Sortition and Democracy from Athens to the Present. 314 pp. 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <696-483>
ISBN 978-1-00-928563-6 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Electoral democracies are struggling. Sintomer, in this instructive book, argues for democratic innovations. One such innovation is using random selection to create citizen bodies with advisory or decisional political power. 'Sortition' has a long political history. Coupled with elections, it has represented an important yet often neglected dimension of Republican and democratic government, and has been reintroduced in the Global North, China and Mexico. The Government of Chance explores why sortation is returning, how it is coupled with deliberation, and why randomly selected 'minipublics' and citizens' assemblies are flourishing. Relying on a growing international and interdisciplinary literature, Sintomer provides the first systematic and theoretical reconstruction of the government of chance from Athens to the present. At what conditions can it be rational? What lessons can be drawn from history? The Government of Chance therefore clarifies the democratic imaginaries at stake: deliberative, antipolitical, and radical, making a plaidoyer for the latter.

今日の政治神学－C.シュミットから100年後
Dean, Mitchell / List, Lotte / Schwarzkopf, Stefan (eds.), Political Theology Today: 100 Years after Carl Schmitt. 256 pp. 2023:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <696-130>
ISBN 978-1-350-34451-8 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

Almost 100 years have passed since Carl Schmitt gave his controversial definition of the sovereign as the one who decides on the exception in his by now classic Political Theology (1922). Written at a time of crisis, the book sought to establish the institution of sovereignty, not from within a well-functioning governing machine of the state in a situation of normality, but rather as the minimal condition of state order in the moment of governmental breakdown. The book appeared anachronistic already at its publication. Schmitt went against Max Weber's popular thesis defining secularization as a disenchantment of the world characterizing modern societies, and instead suggested that the concepts of modern politics mirrored a metaphysics originating in Christianity and the church. Nevertheless, the concept of political theology has in recent years seen a revival as a field of research in philosophy as well as political theory, as studies in the theological sub-currents of politics, economics and sociality proliferate.

Aoiz, Javier / Boeri, Marcelo D., Theory and Practice in Epicurean Political Philosophy: Security, Justice and Tranquility. 256 pp. 2023:2 (Bloomsbury Academic, UK) <696-11>
ISBN 978-1-350-34654-3 hard ¥24,216.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00 *

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous cliche: the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political communities. However, this anti-Epicurean literature did not provide considerations of Epicurean political theory or the testimonies about Epicurean lifestyle. The purpose of this book is to shed light on the contribution of Epicurean thought to political life in the ancient world. Incorporating the most up-to-date material, including papyri which have been recovered from Herculaneum, documents of Greek epigraphy and the prosopography of the Roman Epicureans, this volume will bring to the foreground new testimonies surrounding the public activities of the Epicureans. In this way, the reader will learn that Epicurean political theory is, in fact, a crucial ingredient of its philosophy. As a result, this connection creates an ongoing dialogue with the Greek philosophical tradition, revealing the presence of Plato in the Epicurean philosophy.