Democracy Past and Future : Selected Essays.
Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life. One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays n...
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2012
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Table of Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments and Permissions; INTRODUCTION: Antitotalitarianism and After, Samuel Moyn; Part I. The Study of Politicsin History; CHAPTER 1. Inaugural Lecture, Collège de France; CHAPTER 2. Toward a Philosophical History of the Political; Part II. The Voluntarist Drive to Unity; CHAPTER 3. Revolutionary Democracy; CHAPTER 4. The Republic of Universal Suffrage; Part III: The Allure of Rationalism; CHAPTER 5. François Guizot and the Sovereignty of Reason; CHAPTER 6. Political Rationalism and Democracy in France; Part IV: Civil Society.
- CHAPTER 7. The Market, Liberalism, and Anti-liberalismCHAPTER 8. Marx and Civil Society; Part V: The Future of Democracy; CHAPTER 9. From the Past to the Future of Democracy; CHAPTER 10. The Transformation of Democracy and the Future of Europe; POSTSCRIPT: Democracy in an Era of Distrust; Notes; Bibliography of Pierre Rosanvallon's Principal Writings; Index.
