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

Beers, Laura, Orwell's Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the Twenty-First Century. 224 pp. 2024:6 (Norton, US) <715-669>
ISBN 978-1-324-07508-0 hard ¥6,055.- (税込) US$ 26.99 *

George Orwell dedicated his career to exposing social injustice and political duplicity, urging his readers to face hard truths about Western society and politics. Now, the uncanny parallels between the interwar era and our own-rising inequality, censorship, and challenges to traditional social hierarchies-make his writing even more of the moment. Invocations of Orwell and his classic dystopian novel 1984 have reached new heights, with both sides of the political spectrum embracing the rhetoric of Orwellianism. In Orwell's Ghosts, historian Laura Beers considers Orwell's full body of work-his six novels, three nonfiction works, and brilliant essays on politics, language, and the class system-to examine what "Orwellian" truly means and reveal the misconstrued thinker in all his complexity. She explores how Orwell's writing on free speech addresses the proliferation of "fake news" and the emergence of cancel culture, highlights his vivid critiques of capitalism and the oppressive nature of the British Empire, and, in contrast, analyzes his failure to understand feminism. Timely, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking, Orwell's Ghosts investigates how the writings of a lionized champion of truth and freedom can help us face the crises of modernity.

Edmondson, George / Mladek, Klaus, A Politics of Melancholia: From Plato to Arendt. 304 pp. 2024:3 (Princeton U. Pr., US) <715-671>
ISBN 978-0-691-25129-5 hard ¥21,318.- (税込) US$ 95.00 *
ISBN 978-0-691-25130-1 paper ¥7,854.- (税込) US$ 35.00 *

Why melancholia is a vital form of social critique and a catalyst for political renewalMelancholia is wrongly condemned as a condition of withdrawal and despair that alienates its sufferer from community. Countering that misconception, A Politics of Melancholia reclaims an understanding of melancholia not as an affliction in need of a remedy but as an affirmative stance toward decay and ruination in political life, and restores the melancholic figure-by turns inventive and destructive, outraged and inspired-to their rightful place as the poet of political thought.George Edmondson and Klaus Mladek identify pivotal moments of political melancholia in ancient and modern texts, offering new perspectives on the death of Socrates in Plato's dialogues, the fratricide in Hamlet, Woyzeck's killing of Marie in Georg Buechner's Woyzeck, the murder of Moses in Freud's thought, and the betrayal of the revolutionary idea that Hannah Arendt identifies in her critique of eighteenth-century revolutions. Melancholia emerges here as a disposition that is mournful but also jubilant, a mood of unbending disconsolation that remains faithful to a scene of downfall, to events that cannot be forgotten, and to things that cannot be governed.Recovering a tradition of thought that is both affirmative and hopeful, this eloquent book reveals how political melancholia embodies a shared condition of discontent that binds communities together and inspires change.

J.G.ガネル著『アメリカ政治学と政治像』第2版
Gunnell, John G., Imagining the American Polity: Political Science and the Discourse of Democracy. 2nd ed. 256 pp. 2024:3 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-673>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9588-0 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

Stewart, Matthew, An Emancipation of the Mind: Radical Philosophy, the War over Slavery, and the Refounding of America. 400 pp. 2024:5 (Norton, US) <715-674>
ISBN 978-1-324-00362-5 hard ¥7,293.- (税込) US$ 32.50 *

This is a story about a dangerous idea-that all men are created equal-which ignited revolutions in America, France and Haiti; burst across Europe in the revolutions of 1848; and returned to inflame a new generation of intellectuals to lead the abolition movement. Frederick Douglass's unusual interest in radical German philosophers and Abraham Lincoln's odd, buried allusions to the same rationalist, secularist, and essentially atheist thinkers are but a few of the clues that underlie this propulsive philosophical detective story. With fresh takes on forgotten thinkers like Theodore Parker (a minister too radical even for the Unitarians, whose work provided some of Lincoln's most famous lines) and a feisty band of German refugees, Matthew Stewart's vivid storytelling and piercing insights forge a significant revision in our understanding of the origins and meaning of the struggle over slavery in America-and offer a fresh perspective on struggles between democracy and elite power today.

Bamford, Rebecca / Merrick, Allison (eds.), Nietzsche and Politicized Identities. 336 pp. 2024:4 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-21>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9717-4 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *

カントからの離脱と国際関係
Franke, Mark F. N., Withdrawal from Immanuel Kant and International Relations: The Global Unlimited. (Interventions) 280 pp. 2023:12 (Routledge, UK) <715-27>
ISBN 978-1-03-259182-7 hard ¥38,907.- (税込) GB￡ 135.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-259183-4 paper ¥10,660.- (税込) GB￡ 36.99 *

This book shows how the flawed orientation forming Immanuel Kant's philosophical project is the same from which the discipline of International Relations (IR) becomes possible and appears necessary.Tracing how core problems in Kant's thought are inescapably reproduced in IR, this book demonstrates that constructive critique of IR is impossible through mere challenge to its Kantian traditions. It argues that confrontation with the Kantian character of IR demands fundamental withdrawal from their shared aims. Investigating the global limits inherent to epistemological and ontological commitments of Kant's writings and IR, this interdisciplinary study interrogates the racism, sexism, coloniality, white male privilege, and anthropocentricism of both as sites from which such withdrawal may be initiated. Following queer and feminist examinations of how Kant and IR discipline a joint orientation through sex, gender, and sexuality, it indicates how withdrawal is possible. And, considering how Anishinaabe legal tradition opens freedom beyond the restricting horizons of Kant and IR, this book contemplates withdrawal from both as leading to a global unlimited.An essential text for advanced undergraduate and graduate studies, this book will also be of strong interest to those studying the thinking and writings of Kant, neo- and post-Kantian scholarship, and IR theory.

Boersma, John, Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates: Friendship in Political Thought. (SUNY Series in Ancient Greek Philosophy) 294 pp. 2024:3 (State U. New York Pr., US) <715-15>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9670-2 hard ¥22,215.- (税込) US$ 99.00 *