Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France
1st Edition
Published on 12. June 2012
X, 270 pages
978-1-137-02831-0 (ISBN)
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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.
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MICHAEL C. BEHRENT Assistant Professor in the History Department at Appalachian State University in North Carolina, USA CARL BOUCHARD Associate Professor of History at Université de Montréal, Canada ALAIN CHATRIOTResearch Fellow (Chargé de recherche) in History at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France ANNELIEN DE DIJNAssistant Professor in Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands MAGALI DELLA SUDDATenured Researcher (Chargée de recherche) at the Centre Emile Durkheim Bordeaux (CNRS), France JEAN-MICHEL GUIEULecturer in Contemporary History at the University of Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France JOSHUA HUMPHREYSSenior Associate and Director of the Center for Social Philanthropy at Tellus Institute in Boston, USA ANDREW JAINCHILL Associate Professor of History at Queen's University, Kingston Ontario, Canada GEORGES NAVETProfessor of Philosophy at the University of Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis, France NICOLAS ROUSSELLIER Associate Professor at Sciences Po, Paris, and Professor at the French School, Middlebury College, Vermont, USA K. STEVEN VINCENT Professor of History at North Carolina State University, USA
Content
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 Théremin and Germaine de Staël; A.Jainchill Liberal Pluralism in the early Nineteenth Century: Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël; 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 Fouillée; 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 'Sénat fédérateur', 1940-1969; P.Smith Epilogue: French Politics, History, and a New Perspective on the Jacobin State; A.Chatriot
