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New French Thought - Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
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New French Thought - Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing
of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into
English for the first time essays by some of the best young French
political thinkers writing today, including Marcel Gauchet, Pierre
Manent, Luc Ferry, and Alain Renaut. The central theme of these
essays is liberal democracy: its nature, its development, its
problems, its fundamental legitimacy. Although these themes are
familiar to American and British readers, the French approach to
them--which is profoundly historical and rooted in the tradition of
continental philosophy--is quite different from our customary one.
Included in this collection is a series of reconsiderations of
French critics of liberal society (Levi-Strauss, Foucault,
Bourdieu) and of classical European liberals (Kant, Constant,
Tocqueville). The continuing controversies over the nature of the
modern era and the place of religion within it play a central role
throughout the collection. The book includes a debate on the
foundations of human rights and on the nature of a liberal
political order. The concluding section presents some of the new
sociological writing on modern individualism, its pleasures and its
discontents. An introduction by Mark Lilla provides the historical
background to the revival of French political thought about
liberalism, and offers an analysis of what American and English
readers might learn from it. Originally published in 1994. The
Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology
to again make available previously out-of-print books from the
distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These
editions preserve the original texts of these important books while
presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The
goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access
to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books
published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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