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

社会契約論と国際関係－ホッブズからカントまで
Chadwick, Stephen, Social Contract Theory and International Relations: From Hobbes to Kant. 173 pp. 2024:9 (Springer, GW) <734-8>
ISBN 978-3-031-64220-3 hard ¥28,244.- (税込) EUR 119.99

This book provides a systematic analysis of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau and Kant with respect to international relations. These philosophers belong to the social contract tradition and are considered some of the most influential political theorists. Their ideas have played a role in the formation of national political constitutions and remain very influential both in understanding and legitimising the structure of societies around the world. This book is an innovative analysis of what these thinkers have claimed regarding the relationship between nation states, rather than contributing to the established scholarship on what they have said about individual political societies. Specifically, individual chapters examine war and peace, world governance, inequality, and terrorism.

Dobski, Bernard J., Mark Twain's Joan of Arc: Political Wisdom, Divine Justice, and the Origins of Modernity. (Recovering Political Philosophy) 324 pp. 2024:9 (Palgrave Macmillan, UK) <734-838>
ISBN 978-3-031-65718-4 hard ¥30,598.- (税込) EUR 129.99

This book is about the political wisdom embodied in Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, the self-declared best book by arguably America's greatest author. More precisely, this study illuminates Twain's political wisdom by examining his approach to the theological-political problem; it takes up Twain's handling of the question of whether a providential deity intervenes in human affairs so as to effectuate divine justice on earth and it does this through a commentary on his last complete novel. Through this investigation, Twain prompts his audience to explore the natural, conventional, or divine basis for justice in political life. Such a study is critical for understanding Twain's corpus, concerned as it is with the tension between material determinism and moral agency. Dobski argues that Twain's last novel prepares his readers to adopt a "new" understanding of man and his relationship to God, his country, and his fellow man.

Omar, Ayesha, The Pluralistic Frameworks of Ibn Rushd and Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im. (Elements in Comparative Political Theory) 75 pp. 2025:1 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <734-839>
ISBN 978-1-00-951730-0 hard ¥14,241.- (税込) GB￡ 49.99
ISBN 978-1-00-938632-6 paper ¥4,843.- (税込) GB￡ 17.00

The purpose of this Element is to analyse the assiduous attempts of two Islamic political thinkers-the 12th century Andalusian philosopher Ibn Rushd and the contemporary Sudanese reformist Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im-to theorise Islamic politics through an approach the author refers to as 'pluralistic frameworks'. A pluralistic framework, is a systematic mediation of Islamic ethics and politics that incorporates extra-Islamic traditions of thought from diverse sources. Pluralistic frameworks selectively and self-consciously enable dialogue, synthesis, and hybridity and seek to maintain a distinct conception of Islamic ethics that concords with a preferred set of political arguments. They enable reflexivity within the ethical purview of Islam and with an awareness of the normativity of shari'a.Both Ibn Rushd and An-Na'im reconcile shari'a in two very different ways, but to a common end; Ibn Rushd lays out a method of harmonisation with Greek thought, while An-Na'im resorts to the radical subversion of sharia under liberal thought.

西洋思想におけるギリシアとローマの正義理論とその遺産
Straumann, Benjamin, The Just State: Greek and Roman Theories of Justice and Their Legacy in Western Thought. 288 pp. 2025:1 (Wiley-Blackwell, UK) <734-840>
ISBN 978-1-118-63468-4 paper ¥18,315.- (税込) US$ 84.95