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Democracy Past and Future (Hardcover): Pierre Rosanvallon

Democracy Past and Future (Hardcover)

Pierre Rosanvallon; Edited by Samuel Moyn

Series: Political Thought / Political History

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"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 new readings of the history, aims, and possibilities of democratic theory and practice, and provides unique theoretical understandings of key moments in democracy's trajectory, from the French Revolution and the struggles for universal suffrage to European unification and the crises of the present. In so doing, he lays out an influential new theory of how to write the history of politics. Rosanvallon's historical and philosophical approach examines the "pathologies" that have curtailed democracy's potential and challenges the antitotalitarian liberalism that has dominated recent political thought. All in all, he adroitly combines historical and theoretical analysis with an insistence on the need for a new form of democracy. Above all, he asks what democracy means when the people rule but are nowhere to be found.

Throughout his career, Rosanvallon has resisted simple categorization. Rosanvallon was originally known as a primary theorist of the "second left," which hoped to stake out a non-Marxist progressive alternative to the irresistible appeal of revolutionary politics. In fact, Rosanvallon revived the theory of "civil society" even before its usage by East European dissidents made it globally popular as a non-statist politics of freedom and pluralism. His ideas have been shaped by a variety of influences, ranging from his work with an influential French union to his teachers Fran?ois Furet and Claude Lefort.

Well known throughout Europe as a historian, political theorist, social critic, and public intellectual, Pierre Rosanvallon was recently elected to a professorship at the Coll?ge de France, Paris, a position held at various times by Claude L?vi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu. "Democracy Past and Future" begins with Rosanvallon's groundbreaking and synthetic lecture that he delivered upon joining this institution. Throughout the volume, Rosanvallon illuminates and invigorates contemporary political and democratic thought.

General

Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Political Thought / Political History
Release date: March 2006
First published: April 2006
Authors: Pierre Rosanvallon
Editors: Samuel Moyn
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Trade binding
Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 978-0-231-13740-9
Languages: English
Subtitles: French
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Democracy
LSN: 0-231-13740-0
Barcode: 9780231137409

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