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

Sumalvico, Thea, Umstrittene Taufe: Kontroversen im Kontext von Theologie, Philosophie und Politik (1750-1800). (Hallesche Forschungen 64) XVII, 575 S. 2022:10 (O. Harrassowitz, GW) <697-49>
ISBN 978-3-447-11910-8 paper ¥15,628.- (税込) EUR 74.00

Thea Sumalvico zeichnet in ihrer Studie Taufdebatten der zweiten Haelfte des 18. Jahrhunderts in Streitschriften, Dogmatiken, Lexika und Zeitschriften nach. Diese Debatten oeffnen ein Fenster zu zentralen philosophischen und theologischen Streitpunkten dieser Zeit. Verhandelt wurde insbesondere die Wirksamkeit der Taufe: Ist sie als Gnadenmittel zu verstehen oder als Initiationsritus in die kirchliche Gemeinschaft? Transformationen in Rechtfertigungs- und Erbsuendenlehre fuehrten dabei in vielen Faellen zur Infragestellung der Heilsrelevanz der Taufe. Die strikte Trennung zwischen Geister- und Koerperwelt, die sich insbesondere aus der Leibniz-Wolffschen Philosophie ergab, liess unmittelbare Wirkungen Gottes zunehmend nicht mehr plausibel erscheinen. Dies galt auch fuer Wirkungen von Teufel und Daemonen, was zu umfassenden Diskussionen um den Taufexorzismus fuehrte. Die Taufe wurde entsprechend haeufig umgedeutet, damit ging aber nicht unbedingt eine Abwertung einher: Als Eintritt in die Institution Kirche kam ihr grosse Bedeutung zu. Dies war stets auch mit politischen Fragen verknuepft, ging mit ihr doch auch die Zusage buergerlicher Rechte einher, was insbesondere in Debatten um Judenkonversion und -emanzipation ersichtlich wird. Von einer in sich kohaerenten, aufklaererischen Tauftheologie kann dabei nicht gesprochen werden, sondern die Frage, was Taufe bedeutet, wird verhandelt und bleibt umstritten.

Parotto, Giuliana (ed.), Democracy and Representation: The Meaning of Eric Voegelin's Theory of Representation. (Eric Voegelin Studies: Yearbook 2) XX, 341 S. 2023:4 (W. Fink, GW) <697-677>
ISBN 978-3-7705-6753-9 hard ¥23,020.- (税込) EUR 109.00

Die aktuelle Krise der liberalen Demokratie ist in den Mittelpunkt der verfassungsrechtlichen, historischen, philosophischen, theologischen und politischen Analyse gerueckt. Der Populismus und die wachsende Abneigung gegen politische Eliten und ihre Dominanz in den Volksvertretungen stellt zunehmend das Wesen der Repraesentanz und die Beziehung zwischen Repraesentanz und Demokratie in Frage. Die Gefaehrdung von repraesentativen Demokratien durch autoritaer auftretende politische Fuehrungsfiguren hat der beruehmte Politikwissenschaftler Eric Voegelin (1901?1986) nach Ueberwindung des Faschismus in Europa mit den Worten beschrieben: “If a government is nothing but representative in the constitutional sense, a representative ruler in the existential sense will sooner or later make an end of it; and quite possibly the new existential ruler will not be too representative in the constitutional sense”.

フランスにおける時間とラディカルな政治－ドレフュス事件から第一次世界大戦まで
Paulin-Booth, Alexandra, Time and Radical Politics in France: From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War. (Studies in Modern French and Francophone History) 296 pp. 2023:5 (Manchester U. Pr., UK) <697-678>
ISBN 978-1-5261-4964-0 hard ¥20,663.- (税込) GB￡ 85.00

This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues that time provides an important means of exploring how concepts such as nationalism, revolution and social change were understood at the turn of the century. Attending to different experiences of time - the speed at which it was perceived to move, the extent to which the future was near and graspable, the ways in which the past was seen to impinge on the present - opens up exciting new possibilities for analysing politics, ideologies and worldviews.

リベラリズムの罠－J.S.ミルと解釈の習慣
Philips, Menaka, The Liberalism Trap: John Stuart Mill and Customs of Interpretation. 232 pp. 2023:6 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <697-17>
ISBN 978-0-19-765855-0 hard ¥16,160.- (税込) US$ 83.00

Piirimaee, Eva, Herder and Enlightenment Politics. (Ideas in Context) 411 pp. 2023:5 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <697-18>
ISBN 978-1-00-926386-3 hard ¥24,310.- (税込) GB￡ 100.00

Johann Gottfried Herder initiated the modern disciplines of philosophical anthropology and cultural history, including the study of popular culture. He is also remembered as a sharp critic of colonialism and imperialism. But what types of social, economic and political arrangements did Herder envision for modern European societies? Herder and Enlightenment Politics provides a radically new interpretation of Herder's political thought, situating his ideas in Enlightenment debates on modern patriotism, commerce and peace. By reconstructing Herder's engagement with Rousseau, Montesquieu, Abbt, Ferguson, Moeser, Kant and many other contemporary authors, Eva Piirimaee shows that Herder was deeply interested in the potential for cultural, moral and political reform in Russia, Germany and Europe. Herder probed the foundations of modern liberty, community and peace, developing a distinctive understanding of human self-determination, natural sociability and modern patriotism as well as advocating a vision of Europe as a commercially and culturally interconnected community of peoples.

ドイツの観念論の政治学
Yeomans, Christopher, The Politics of German Idealism. 256 pp. 2023:5 (Oxford U. Pr., US) <696-32>
ISBN 978-0-19-766730-9 hard ¥16,160.- (税込) US$ 83.00

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 ¥6,758.- (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 ¥20,663.- (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 ¥15,801.- (税込) GB￡ 65.00
ISBN 978-1-78831-712-2 paper ¥5,344.- (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 ¥19,448.- (税込) GB￡ 80.00 *
ISBN 978-1-00-930744-4 paper ¥6,074.- (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 ¥20,663.- (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 ¥20,663.- (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 ¥20,663.- (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.

Brennan, Daniel / La Caze, Marguerite (eds.), Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought. (Continental Philosophy and the History of Thought) 272 pp. 2022:6 (Lexington Books, US) <695-8>
ISBN 978-1-66690-085-9 hard ¥20,443.- (税込) US$ 105.00

Hannah Arendt and the History of Thought, edited by Daniel Brennan and Marguerite La Caze, enrichens and deepens scholarship on Arendt's relation to philosophical history and traditions. Some contributors analyze thinkers not often linked to Arendt, such as William Shakespeare, Hans Jonas, and Simone de Beauvoir. Other contributors treat themes that are pressing and crucial to understanding Arendt's work, such as love in its many forms, ethnicity and race, disability, human rights, politics, and statelessness. The collection is anchored by chapters on Arendt's interpretation of Kant and her relation to early German Romanticism and phenomenology, while other chapters explore new perspectives, such as Arendt and film, her philosophical connections with other women thinkers, and her influence on Eastern European thought and activism. The collection expands the frames of reference for research on Arendt-both in terms of using a broader range of texts like her Denktagebuch and in examining her ideas about judgment, feminism, and worldliness in this wider context.

Caivano, Dean, A Politics of All: Thomas Jefferson and Radical Democracy. (Political Theory for Today) 188 pp. 2022:10 (Lexington Books, US) <695-967>
ISBN 978-1-79365-257-7 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00

No historical figure is more synonymous with establishing American democracy than Thomas Jefferson. Revolutionary, iconoclastic, yet pragmatic, the legacy of Jefferson as an intellectual and politician continues to reverberate across academic and public circles. However, Jefferson's writings on power, authority, and politics point to a different understanding of self-government than dominant liberal and republican interpretations suggest. Dean Caivano's interpretation of Jefferson's political, anthropological, and sociological meditations on power reveals an unknown Jefferson, who conceives the American nation-state as a network of dynamic autonomous communities enacted by a politics of all. Caivano pointedly argues that this unknown Jefferson fittingly aligns with historical and contemporary projects of radical democracy, stressing the need for constant resistance, inquiry, and dialogue. In a period, fraught with political division and hyper-partisanship, this timely, innovative reading of Jefferson invites a reappraisal of how we understand a vital founder of the American republic and what is at stake in the battle to save American democracy.

Chiantera-Stutte, Patricia / Borgognone, Giovanni (eds.), Civilization: Global Histories of a Political Idea. 216 pp. 2022:10 (Lexington Books, US) <695-968>
ISBN 978-1-79364-582-1 hard ¥19,470.- (税込) US$ 100.00

Civilizations, or rather narratives about civilizations, matter, not only as research subjects in textbooks, literary and scientific essays, but also in politics. This seems to be the case in "civilizational states" such as China, Russia, Turkey and Syria. Also in Western countries, in recent decades, the notion of civilization has often been used in public discourse: political parties and leaders have referred in particular to the need to protect Western civilization, calling in this regard for policies to restrict immigration from Muslim countries. In 2022 the narrative on civilization was used to legitimize the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The studies in this collected volume reconstruct how civilizational paradigms and narratives have been used to explain political relations, to define the global order, to justify attempts to gain hegemony over particular geopolitical areas, and to make predictions on global developments in specific times of crisis. In particular, this book analyzes the concepts of civilization as they have been used in the intellectual and political discourse in periods particularly critical for global relations and for the consolidation or contestation of the West's dominant role in international, national politics and academic discourse.

古代及び近代政治哲学における平等と卓越
Frankel, Steven / Ray, John (eds.), Equality and Excellence in Ancient and Modern Political Philosophy. 240 pp. 2023:4 (State U. New York Pr., US) <695-971>
ISBN 978-1-4384-9278-0 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00

将基面貴巳他編　中世・ルネサンス期政治思想再考
Jones, Chris / Shogimen, Takashi (eds.), Rethinking Medieval and Renaissance Political Thought: Historiographical Problems, Fresh Interpretations, New Debates. (Themes in Medieval and Early Modern History) 304 pp. 2023:6 (Routledge, UK) <695-973>
ISBN 978-1-03-238053-7 hard ¥31,603.- (税込) GB￡ 130.00
ISBN 978-1-03-238054-4 paper ¥8,748.- (税込) GB￡ 35.99

This collection of essays, written by leading experts, showcases historiographical problems, fresh interpretations, and new debates in medieval and Renaissance history and political thought. Recent scholarship on medieval and Renaissance political thought is witness to tectonic movements. These involve quiet, yet considerable, re-evaluations of key thinkers such as Thomas Aquinas and Machiavelli, as well as the string of lesser known "political thinkers" who wrote in western Europe between Late Antiquity and the Reformation. Taking stock of thirty years of developments, this volume demonstrates the contemporary vibrancy of the history of medieval and Renaissance political thought. By both celebrating and challenging the perspectives of a generation of scholars, notably Cary J. Nederman, it offers refreshing new assessments. The book re-introduces the history of western political thought in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the wider disciplines of History and Political Science. Recent historiographical debates have revolutionized discussion of whether or not there was an "Aristotelian revolution" in the thirteenth century. Thinkers such as Machiavelli and Marsilius of Padua are read in new ways; less well-known texts, such as the Irish On the Twelve Abuses of the Age, offer new perspectives. Further, the collection argues that medieval political ideas contain important lessons for the study of concepts of contemporary interest such as toleration.The volume is an ideal resource for both students and scholars interested in medieval and Renaissance history as well as the history of political thought.

Ozan, Ebru Deniz (ed.), Rethinking Utopia: Interdisciplinary Approaches. (Political Theory for Today) 132 pp. 2022:6 (Lexington Books, US) <695-974>
ISBN 978-1-66690-695-0 hard ¥17,523.- (税込) US$ 90.00

Rethinking Utopia is a collection that discusses utopian thinking in relation to different philosophical themes. It seeks utopianism in political theory (particularly in Kant and Derrida), populism, Turkish Islamism, international law, and it fleshes out themes of modernism and classless society in the selected utopian examples. By discussing and showing the relationship between utopia and these topics, the book shows that the range of subjects related to utopias is wider than the current literature suggests. The book attempts to bring together academic fields, which are not cross-fertilized in the existing debates on utopia, by building bridges between actual politics and futuristic visions. On the one hand, it looks at utopia as a means to think about and reconfigure contemporary politics (as in the case of international law and populist politics); on the other hand, it investigates how different philosophical/literary texts, from widely-known More and Le Guin to lesser-known Turkish Islamists Kisakuerek, Karakoc and OEzel, imagine their distinct utopian vision where a new form of anarchist, classless or Islamist society could be possible.

VanOpstal, Moryam, An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero's De Republica. 200 pp. 2022:11 (Lexington Books, US) <695-975>
ISBN 978-1-79365-224-9 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00

An Ancient Guide to Good Politics: A Literary and Ethical Reading of Cicero's De Republica illuminates Cicero's subtlety of craft and thought in his most painstakingly written dialogue. As Cicero-notable among ancient thinkers for his accomplishments as a statesman and as a philosopher-has enjoyed a resurgence of interest in recent decades, scholars are discovering in Cicero's De Republica (On the Republic) an original, insightful, and relevant teaching on republicanism, liberty, leadership, and citizenship. Through a close reading of this work, Moryam VanOpstal highlights Cicero's ingenuity in addressing age-old philosophical and political questions related to the best way of life, the relationship of justice and law, the founding of republics, the cycles of regimes, the guide of the republic, and the mixed regime. Instead of offering simplistic teachings on duty, power, and justice, Cicero presents us with reflections and puzzles that turn the question back to us, pointing us to deeper unities than the disparate appearances of things might suggest. VanOpstal shows that Cicero intended his dialogue as a provocation for us to live lives that are more fully characterized by noble thought and thoughtful deed.

Varma, Robin, Ruling Bodies: A Study of Coercion and Punishment in Plato's Republic, Laws, and Gorgias. 172 pp. 2022:7 (Lexington Books, US) <695-23>
ISBN 978-1-66690-729-2 hard ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00

Ruling Bodies centers around an epochal ontological shift in ideas that changed the nature and the meaning of coercion in modern political thought. It begins with a review of Foucault, Arendt, and Habermas, and points out a discrepancy in the way each thinker understood coercion in modern politics. From here, Varma dives into the works of Plato to provide a framework and context for thinking about this. Through a detailed examination of the Republic, the Laws, and the Gorgias, Ruling Bodies offers us the first comprehensive account of coercion in Plato's thought. As the author shows, each dialogue is a demonstration of a particular style of Platonic statecraft that corresponds to the amount of power the philosopher holds in a city. The Republic demonstrates how a philosopher would rule as a monarch; the Laws demonstrates his rule when he must share power with other spirited oligarchs; and the Gorgias demonstrates his rule in a democracy where power belongs to the people. In all three dialogues, Varma argues that the philosopher's logos sought to bridge the passions of man with the heavenly bodies, and coercion was merely a supplementary tool to help achieve this end. When Hobbes recast the cosmos as matter, form, and power, however, the soul gets reduced to a material body, and the aim of logos was not to bridge the passions of man with the heavens, but to make the body obedient to power.

ニーチェとトクヴィルの人間の民主化論
Eisenberg, David A., Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity. 324 pp. 2022:8 (Lexington Books, US) <695-29>
ISBN 978-1-79362-787-2 hard ¥23,364.- (税込) US$ 120.00

To the extent that we worry about the future, we tend to do so with the apprehension that something may go terribly wrong. Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity is animated more by the apprehension, what if everything should go terribly right? That foreboding indelibly colored the outlook of Friedrich Nietzsche and Alexis de Tocqueville-two thinkers seldom paired. As David A. Eisenberg argues, each in his own way envisaged the terminus toward which modernity speeds. Examining their thought allows us not only to glimpse the future that filled them with dread, but to survey a road that stretches back millennia to Athens and Jerusalem, when ideas about the primacy of reason and inborn equality of souls took root. Armed with such revolutionary teachings, a particular human type, namely the democratic, gained ascendancy. The reign of this human type portends to be so total that all other human types will be precluded in the democratic future, where what mankind's democratization augurs is not diversification but homogenization. The questions raised in Nietzsche and Tocqueville on the Democratization of Humanity seek to broaden the horizons that history's democratizing forces conspire to contract.

Dunn, George A. (ed.), A New Politics for Philosophy: Perspectives on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss. 338 pp. 2022:10 (Lexington Books, US) <695-28>
ISBN 978-1-4985-7732-8 hard ¥23,364.- (税込) US$ 120.00

A New Politics for Philosophy: Essays on Plato, Nietzsche, and Strauss presents meticulous readings of key philosophical works of towering figures from both the classical and modern intellectual traditions: Protagoras, Aeschylus, Xenophon, Plato, Descartes, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. Inspired by the scholarship of Laurence Lampert, the international group of scholars explore questions of the nature or identity of the philosopher, with an emphasis on painstaking exegesis informed by close attention to detail. The chapters touch on topics ranging from Plato's Charmides, Aeschylus' Prometheia Trilogy, Xenophon's Hiero or Tyrannicus, Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra and Ecce Homo, Nietzsche's Plato, whether Nietzsche thought of himself as a modern-day Socrates, philosophy's relationship to science, the function of the noontide image in the center of Part IV of Nietzsche's Zarathustra, a re-evaluation of the young Nietzsche's break from the spell of Schopenhauer, the dramatic date of the conversation presented in Plato's Republic, Xenophon's dialogical investigation of the troubled tyrant's soul, Leo Stauss's furtive discussion of Descartes and the modern aspiration to master nature, and Nietzschean environmentalism. The book also includes an interview with Laurence Lampert.

Heath, Gordon L., Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World. 272 pp. 2022:3 (Lexington Books, US) <695-190>
ISBN 978-1-9787-1290-4 hard ¥21,417.- (税込) US$ 110.00

In Christians, the State, and War: An Ancient Tradition for the Modern World, Gordon Heath argues that the pre-Constantinian Christian testimony regarding the state's just use of violence was remarkably uniform and that it was arguably a catholic, or universal, tradition. More specifically, that tradition had five interrelated and intertwined constitutive areas of consensus that can best be understood as parts of one collective tradition. Heath further argues that those five related areas of an early church tradition shaped all subsequent theological developments on views of the state, its use of violence, and the conditions of Christian participation in said violence. Whereas the sorry and sordid instances in the church's history related to violence were times when the church drifted from those convictions of consensus, the cases when Christians had a more stellar record of responding to the horrors of the world were times when they lived up to them. Consequently, the way forward today is for Christians to forgo beginning with the just war-pacifist debate, and, instead, to begin by letting their views on war and peace be shaped by that ancient tradition.

Buchstein, Hubertus, Enduring Enmity: The Story of Otto Kirchheimer and Carl Schmitt. (Political Science 140) 530 S. 2023:6 (Transcript, GW) <694-649>
ISBN 978-3-8376-6470-6 paper ¥10,348.- (税込) EUR 49.00

How did the relationship between the politically very disparate theorists Carl Schmitt and Otto Kirchheim shape their political thinking? Hubertus Buchstein investigates the personal, political, and theoretical dimensions between the infamous legal theorist Schmitt and his former student Kirchheimer, who became a member of the Frankfurt School in exile. The various links between them illuminate crucial moments in the recent history of political ideas and legal theory in German and European contemporary history as well as transatlantic intellectual history. Furthermore, it touches upon the role of German exiles in the American academic system, anti-Semitism, as well as German-Jewish relations in the 20th century.

Kriegel, Blandine, La republique imaginaire: la pensee politique moderne de la Renaissance a la Revolution. Vol. 1: La Renaissance. 2022:9 (Cerf, FR) <694-650>
ISBN 978-2-204-13461-3 paper ¥6,124.- (税込) EUR 29.00

Kerkmann, Jan (Hrsg.), Denkwege des Politischen: Beitraege zum Staatsverstaendnis Martin Heideggers. (Staatsverstaendnisse 166) 220 S. 2022:12 (Nomos, GW) <693-66>
ISBN 978-3-8487-8222-2 paper ¥10,348.- (税込) EUR 49.00 *

Mit dem Namen Martin Heideggers wird vornehmlich die daseinshermeneutische Analyse der Endlichkeit und die These einer Geschichtlichkeit des Seins verbunden. Weder hat Heidegger eine normativ ausgerichtete Ethik entwickelt, noch ist er mit einer eigenstaendigen Staatstheorie hervorgetreten. Es verwundert daher nicht, dass der Begriff des Staates in Heideggers kritischer Rekonstruktion der metaphysischen Ueberlieferungstradition nahezu abwesend ist. Gleichwohl darf diese begriffliche Absenz nicht ueber die politischen Implikationen der geschichtsphilosophischen Narrative Heideggers hinwegtaeuschen. Der vorliegende Sammelband hat zum Ziel, Heideggers Staatsverstaendnis erstmals systematisch zu erschliessen. Mit Beitraegen von Pedro Bortoluzzi, Alexandre Derot, Felix Herkert, Dr. Jan Kerkmann, Prof. Dr. Andreas Luckner, Prof. Dr. Reinhard Mehring, Prof. Dr. Daniel Meyer, Dr. Tatjana Noemi Toemmel und Milan Wenner.

Paukstat, Adrian, Staat - Macht - Subjekt: Die Bewegung des Staatsbegriffes bei Michel Foucault und Nicos Poulantzas. 230 S. 2022:12 (Koenigshausen & Neumann, GW) <693-75>
ISBN 978-3-8260-7689-3 paper ¥8,025.- (税込) EUR 38.00

Ohne Zweifel zaehlt die Frage ?Was ist der Staat?? zu einer der Grundfragen des politischen Denkens. Ganz besonders aus emanzipatorischer Perspektive war diese Frage stets untrennbar mit einer zweiten verbunden: der nach den Grenzen und Moeglichkeiten des buergerlichen Staates im Kontext progressiver, gesellschaftsveraendernder Praxis. Ist der Staat ein blosses Instrument, das lediglich der eigenen Verfuegungsgewalt unterworfen werden muss, um die Verhaeltnisse zum Besseren zu wenden? Oder ist Staatlichkeit per se eine Form buergerlicher Vergesellschaftung, an der transformatorische Praktiken notwendigerweise abprallen muessen? Am Beispiel der staatstheoretischen Ueberlegungen in den Werken von Michel Foucault und Nicos Poulantzas soll versucht werden, diese beiden scheinbar gegensaetzlichen Zugaenge zur Staatsfrage einer Vermittlung zuzufuehren. Letzteres vor allem dadurch, das Foucaults und Poulantzas’ Ueberlegungen auf die konkreten politischen Erfahrungen im Frankreich der Nachkriegszeit bezogen und in ihren ideengeschichtlichen Kontext eingebunden dargestellt werden, um so im Rekurs auf die heterogenen Quellen dieses Staatsdenkens, deren Nutzen fuer eine kritische Staatstheorie der Gegenwart abzuwaegen.

Boorman, Scott, Three Faces of Sun Tzu: Analyzing Sun Tzu's Art of War, A Manual on Strategy. 500 pp. 2023:8 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-809>
ISBN 978-1-108-47103-9 hard ¥18,232.- (税込) GB￡ 75.00
ISBN 978-1-108-45698-2 paper ¥7,289.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

Sun Tzu's Art of War is widely regarded as the most influential military & strategic classic of all time. Through 'reverse engineering' of the text structured around 14 Sun Tzu 'themes,' this rigorous analysis furnishes a thorough picture of what the text actually says, drawing on Chinese-language analyses, historical, philological, & archaeological sources, traditional commentaries, computational ideas, and strategic & logistics perspectives. Building on this anchoring, the book provides a unique roadmap of Sun Tzu's military and intelligence insights and their applications to strategic competitions in many times and places worldwide, from Warring States China to contemporary US/China strategic competition and other 21st century competitions involving cyber warfare, computing, other hi-tech conflict, espionage, and more. Simultaneously, the analysis offers a window into Sun Tzu's limitations and blind spots relevant to managing 21st century strategic competitions with Sun-Tzu-inspired adversaries or rivals.

Cooper, Julie / Brody, Samuel Hayim (eds.), The King is in the Field: Essays in Modern Jewish Political Thought. (Jewish Culture and Contexts) 320 pp. 2023:6 (U. Pennsylvania Pr., US) <693-810>
ISBN 978-1-5128-2409-4 hard ¥13,619.- (税込) US$ 69.95

If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political? Until recently, scholars were fiercely divided regarding whether Jews engaged in politics, displayed political wisdom, or penned works of political thought over the two millennia when there was no Jewish state. But over the past few decades, the field of Jewish political thought has begun to examine the ways in which Jewish individuals and communal organizations behaved politically even in diaspora. The King Is in the Field centers writing from leading scholars that serves as an introduction to this exciting field, providing critical resources for anyone interested in thinking about politics both within and beyond the state. From kabbalistic theology to economic philanthropy, from race and nationalism in the U.S. to Israeli legal discourse and feminist activism, this key study of Jewish political thought holds the promise to reorient the field of political thought as a whole by expanding conceptions of what counts as "political." In a world in which statelessness now applies to 100 million individuals, this volume illuminates ways to understand how diaspora Jewish political thought functioned in adopted homelands. This approach allows the book to offer questions and analysis that add depth and breadth to academic studies of Jewish politics while simultaneously offering a blueprint for future volumes interrogating political action through multiple diasporas. Contributors: Samuel Hayim Brody, Lihi Ben Shitrit, Julie E. Cooper, Arye Edrei, Meirav Jones, Rebecca Kobrin, Vincent Lloyd, Menachem Lorberbaum, Shaul Magid, Assaf Tamari, Irene Tucker, Philipp Von Wussow, Michael Walzer.

なぜポピュリズムなのか？－古代ギリシアから現在までの政治戦略
Kenny, Paul, Why Populism?: Political Strategy from Ancient Greece to the Present. 250 pp. 2023:3 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-811>
ISBN 978-1-00-927529-3 hard ¥7,289.- (税込) GB￡ 29.99

The rise to power of populists like Donald Trump is usually attributed to the shifting values and policy preferences of voters-the demand side. Why Populism shifts the public debate on populism and examines the other half of the equation-the supply side. Kenny argues that to understand the rise of populism is to understand the cost of different strategies for winning and keeping power. For the aspiring leader, populism-appealing directly to the people through mass communication-can be a quicker, cheaper, and more effective strategy than working through a political party. Probing the long history of populism in the West from its Ancient Greek roots to the present, this highly readable book shows that the 'economic laws of populism are constant.' 'Forget ideology. Forget resentment. Forget racism or sexism.' Populism, the author writes, is the result of a hidden strategic calculus.

Meyer, Daniel / Raulet, Gerard (eds.), A Critical Archaeology of Cosmopolitan Thinking: Return to the Interwar Years. (Beitraege zur Politischen Wissenschaft 202) 214 S. 2022:11 (Duncker, GW) <693-813>
ISBN 978-3-428-18577-1 paper ¥16,874.- (税込) EUR 79.90 *

In the period between World Wars, the shock of World War 1 and the trauma caused by the conditions of the peace treaties generated an abundance of works on cosmopolitism and supranationalism. In the very period that witnessed the rise of nationalisms, pacifism and cosmopolitan thinking underwent a thorough renewal. While the Socialist International, bolstered by the progress of the Bolshevik revolution, claimed to offer an alternative to the weakness of Western democracies, these experienced a readjustment in the issues linked to cosmopolitanism, fuelled by the leading intellectual theories. Practically all the schools of thought and all the major intellectual figures played a part in this. Important turning points in theory were achieved. This enquiry into the intermediate period between both World Wars aims at outlining an archaeology of models and paradigms in contemporary cosmopolitan thought.

Pabst, Adrian / Scazzieri, Roberto, The Constitution of Political Economy: Polity, Society and the Commonweal. 250 pp. 2023:4 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <693-205>
ISBN 978-1-108-83109-3 hard ¥23,094.- (税込) GB￡ 95.00

The two dominant conceptions of political economy are based on either reducing political decisions to rational-choice reasoning or, conversely, reducing economic structures and phenomena to the realm of politics. In this book, Adrian Pabst and Roberto Scazzieri contend that neither conception is convincing and argue for a fundamental rethinking of political economy. Developing a new approach at the interface of economic theory and political thought, the book shows that political economy covers a plurality of dimensions, which reflect internal hierarchies and multiple relationships within the economic and political sphere. The Constitution of Political Economy presents a new, richer conception of political economy that draws on a range of thinkers from the history of political economy, recognising the complex embedding of the economy and the polity in society. Effective policy-making has to reflect this embedding and rests on the interdependence between local, national, and international actors to address multiple systemic crises.

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 ¥16,874.- (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 ¥18,496.- (税込) US$ 95.00
ISBN 978-0-691-21917-2 paper ¥6,814.- (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 ¥12,206.- (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 ¥8,761.- (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 ¥6,814.- (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 ¥9,725.- (税込) US$ 49.95

A new 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 ¥13,516.- (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 ¥24,337.- (税込) US$ 125.00
ISBN 978-0-691-24563-8 paper ¥10,708.- (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 ¥19,275.- (税込) US$ 99.00
ISBN 978-0-226-82371-3 paper ¥5,062.- (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.

Jennings, Jeremy, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America. 544 pp. 2023:3 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <690-662>
ISBN 978-0-674-27560-7 hard ¥7,778.- (税込) US$ 39.95

A revelatory intellectual biography of Tocqueville, told through his wide-ranging travels-most of them, aside from his journey to America, barely known.It might be the most famous journey in the history of political thought: in 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville sailed from France to the United States, spent nine months touring and observing the political culture of the fledgling republic, and produced the classic Democracy in America.But the United States was just one of the many places documented by the inveterate traveler. Jeremy Jennings follows Tocqueville's voyages-by sailing ship, stagecoach, horseback, train, and foot-across Europe, North Africa, and of course North America. Along the way, Jennings reveals underappreciated aspects of Tocqueville's character and sheds new light on the depth and range of his political and cultural commentary.Despite recurrent ill health and ever-growing political responsibilities, Tocqueville never stopped moving or learning. He wanted to understand what made political communities tick, what elite and popular mores they rested on, and how they were adjusting to rapid social and economic change-the rise of democracy and the Industrial Revolution, to be sure, but also the expansion of empire and the emergence of socialism. He lauded the orderly, Catholic-dominated society of Quebec; presciently diagnosed the boisterous but dangerously chauvinistic politics of Germany; considered England the freest and most unequal place on Earth; deplored the poverty he saw in Ireland; and championed French colonial settlement in Algeria.Drawing on correspondence, published writings, speeches, and the recollections of contemporaries, Travels with Tocqueville Beyond America is a panoramic combination of biography, history, and political theory that fully reflects the complex, restless mind at its center.

A.C.ダイシー－民主主義とレファレンダムに関する著作
Conti, Gregory (ed.), Albert Venn Dicey: Writings on Democracy and the Referendum. (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought) 2023:2 (Cambridge U. Pr., UK) <690-437>
ISBN 978-1-108-84541-0 hard ¥17,017.- (税込) GB￡ 70.00 *
ISBN 978-1-108-95817-2 paper ¥5,588.- (税込) GB￡ 22.99 *

What are the limits to parliamentary sovereignty? When should the people be able to vote directly on issues? The constitutional theorist Albert Venn Dicey (1835-1922) was a cogent advocate of the referendum. While his enthusiasm for the institution was widely acknowledged in his own day, thereafter this dimension of his career has been largely neglected. This fall into obscurity is partly explained by the fact that Dicey never collected his writings on referendums into a single volume. Consequently, during the prolonged crisis over Brexit, the implications of Dicey's thought were unclear, despite his standing as a foundational figure in British constitutional law. This timely modern edition brings together Dicey's sophisticated and intricate writings on the referendum, and it covers his attempts to construct a credible theory of democracy on a new intellectual and institutional basis. An original scholarly introduction analyzes Dicey's thought in light of its contemporary context.

S.ターナー他著　民主主義理論を民主的にする－ヴェーバーとケルゼン以後の民主主義、法、行政－
Turner, Stephen / Mazur, George, Making Democratic Theory Democratic: Democracy, Law, and Administration after Weber and Kelsen. 248 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <690-440>
ISBN 978-1-03-242015-8 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00 *
ISBN 978-1-03-242011-0 paper ¥8,505.- (税込) GB￡ 34.99 *

--A timely analysis of how to make democracies more administratively effective--and true to the intentions of democracy --The lead author is a distinguished political philosopher --Valuable assigned reading for advanced courses on social theory, political theory, public administration, democracy, political sociology, and more

Hankins, James, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy: The Virtuous Republic of Francesco Patrizi of Siena. 448 pp. 2023:3 (Harvard U. Pr., US) <690-16>
ISBN 978-0-674-27470-9 hard ¥10,708.- (税込) US$ 55.00

The first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi-the most important political philosopher of the Italian Renaissance before Machiavelli-who sought to reconcile conflicting claims of liberty and equality in the service of good governance.At the heart of the Italian Renaissance was a longing to recapture the wisdom and virtue of Greece and Rome. But how could this be done? A new school of social reformers concluded that the best way to revitalize corrupt institutions was to promote an ambitious new form of political meritocracy aimed at nurturing virtuous citizens and political leaders.The greatest thinker in this tradition of virtue politics was Francesco Patrizi of Siena, a humanist philosopher whose writings were once as famous as Machiavelli's. Patrizi wrote two major works: On Founding Republics, addressing the enduring question of how to reconcile republican liberty with the principle of merit; and On Kingship and the Education of Kings, which lays out a detailed program of education designed to instill the qualities necessary for political leadership-above all, practical wisdom and sound character.The first full-length study of Patrizi's life and thought in any language, Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy argues that Patrizi is a thinker with profound lessons for our time. A pioneering advocate of universal literacy who believed urban planning could help shape civic values, he concluded that limiting the political power of the wealthy, protecting the poor from debt slavery, and reducing the political independence of the clergy were essential to a functioning society. These ideas were radical in his day. Far more than an exemplar of his time, Patrizi deserves to rank alongside the great political thinkers of the Renaissance: Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Jean Bodin.

政治的デュルケーム－社会学、社会主義、遺産
Dawson, Matt, The Political Durkheim: Sociology, Socialism, Legacies. (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought) 232 pp. 2023:3 (Routledge, UK) <689-434>
ISBN 978-0-367-89443-6 hard ¥29,172.- (税込) GB￡ 120.00

This book presents Durkheim as an important political sociologist, inspired by and advocating socialism. Through a series of studies, it argues that Durkheim's normative vision, which can be called libertarian socialism, shaped his sociological critique and search for alternatives. With attention to the value of this political sociology as a means of understanding our contemporary world, the author asks us to look again at Durkheim. While Durkheim's legacy has often emphasised the supposed conservative elements and stability advocated in his thought, we can point to a different legacy, one of a radical sociology. In dialogue with the decolonial critique, this volume also asks 'was Durkheim white?' and in doing so shows how, as a Jew, he experienced significant racialisation in his lifetime. A new reading and a vital image of a 'political Durkheim', The Political Durkheim will appeal to scholars and students with interests in Durkheim, social theory and political sociology.

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 ¥14,784.- (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 ¥24,310.- (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 ¥25,766.- (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.