Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

Edited by Julian Wright - H. S. Jones

Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

Edited by Julian Wright, H. S. Jones

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

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Format: Hardback

Publication date: 12 June 2012

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ISBN: 0230272096 ISBN 13: 9780230272095

Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars. Top page

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Modern French citizens tell powerful stories about their Republic. The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism since the French Revolution. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. Alternative models of the Republic have been advanced from the centre, the centre-left and the far left. Whether inspired by Proudhon and the tradition of 'federal' socialism, or the liberals of the 1820s, these alternative models have mounted a sustained challenge to what is sometimes called 'Jacobinism' in France. But, as Pierre Rosanvallon has pointed out, the dominant narrative remains fixed in the minds of many. These essays, bringing together new work from leading scholars of French politics and ideas suggest a major new interpretation of French republicanism, pointing out that historians have an important job to do in reshaping these traditional accounts. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan

City: Basingstoke

Pages: 280

More info: height 222 mm width 141 mm weight 454 gr thickness 20 mm

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC23) 320.944 Library of Congress Subject: France - Politics and government

Departments: Political structure & processes;

Record updated at: 09 May, 2013 time: 15:37

Summary Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France Acknowledgements A Pluralist History of France?; H.S.Jones & J.Wright PART I: THE IDEA OF THE PLURAL REPUBLIC Liberal Republicanism after the Terror: Charles-Guillaume Theremin and Germaine de Stael; A.Jainchill Liberal Pluralism in the early Nineteenth Century: Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Stael; K.S.Vincent A Strange Liberalism: Freedom and Aristocracy in French Political Thought; A.de Dijn P-J. Proudhon: Pluralism, Justice and Society; G.Navet Pluralism's Political Conditions: Social Realism and the Revolutionary Tradition in Pierre Leroux, P-J. Proudhon and Alfred Fouillee; M.Behrant Utopian Pluralism in Twentieth-Century France; J.Humphreys PART II: THE PLURAL REPUBLIC Electoral Anti-Pluralism and Electoral Pluralism in France, from the mid-Nineteenth Century to 1914; N.Roussellier Associations and Political Pluralism: the Effects of the Law of 1901; M.della Sudda Vision and Reality: Joseph Paul-Boncour and Third Republic Pluralism; J.Wright Regionalism, Federalism and Internationalism in First World War France; C.Bouchard State Sovereignty in Question: The French Jurists between the Reorganisation of the International System and European Regionalism (1920-1950); J.Guieu Pluralism, Parliament and Constitutional Moments: The Possibility of a 'Senat federateur', 1940-1969; P.Smith Epilogue: French Politics, History, and a New Perspective on the Jacobin State; A.Chatriot Top page

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