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Democracy Past and Future
Rosanvallon, Pierre. Ed(S): Moyn, Samuel
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Description for Democracy Past and Future
A collection of essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life. It examines the "pathologies" that have curtailed democracy's potential and challenges the antitotalitarian liberalism that has dominated recent political thought. Editor(s): Moyn, Samuel. Series: Political Thought / Political History. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 590.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
Political Thought / Political History
Number of Pages
312
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137409
SKU
V9780231137409
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About Rosanvallon, Pierre. Ed(S): Moyn, Samuel
Pierre Rosanvallon is a professor at the College de France, Paris, where he holds the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. Among many other books, he is the author of The Demands of Liberty: Civil Society in France Since the Revolution. Samuel Moyn is professor of history at Columbia University. He is the author of two ... Read more
Reviews for Democracy Past and Future
A long overdue introduction to a figure who defies both sound bites and the familiar academic division of labor. Inside Higher Ed. This is an excellent book for both specialists in political theory and political activists... Highly recommended. Choice