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The Society of Equals

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Description for The Society of Equals Hardcover. Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property - a true counter revolution, says the author, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JPA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 216 x 29. Weight in Grams: 598.

Since the 1980s, society’s wealthiest members have claimed an ever-expanding share of income and property. It has been a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon—the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. And just as significant as the social and economic factors driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself. An ambitious transatlantic history of the struggles that, for two centuries, put political and economic equality at their heart, The Society of Equals calls for a new philosophy of social relations to reenergize egalitarian politics.
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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Weight
597g
Number of Pages
384
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674724594
SKU
V9780674724594
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About Pierre Rosanvallon
Pierre Rosanvallon is Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Politics at the Collège de France.

Reviews for The Society of Equals
The Society of Equals…is a work of both history and political philosophy: a sweeping historical analysis of equality since the American and French Revolutions and an effort to reconstruct the understanding of equality for a new ‘age of singularity’ when ‘everyone wants to ‘be someone.’… Does [Rosanvallon] solve the contemporary puzzles about inequality? I don’t think so. But he analyzes ... Read more

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