Democracy past and future
Title:
Democracy past and future
Author:
Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948-
ISBN:
9780231510448
9780231137409
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Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2006.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 294 p.)
Series:
Columbia studies in political thought/political history
Columbia studies in political thought/political history.
General Note:
A collection of essays from different works including the author's inaugural lecture at the Collège de France.
Contents:
The study of politics in history -- Inaugural lecture, Collège de France -- Toward a philosophical history of the political -- The voluntarist drive to unity -- Revolutionary democracy -- The republic of universal suffrage -- The allure of rationalism -- François Guizot and the sovereignty of reason -- Political rationalism and democracy in France -- Civil society -- The market, liberalism, and anti-liberalism -- Marx and civil society -- The future of democracy -- From the past to the future of democracy -- The transformation of democracy and the future of Europe -- Postscript: Democracy in an era of distrust.
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Electronic Access:
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