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The past fifteen years in France have seen a remarkable flourishing of new work in political philosophy. This anthology brings into English for the first time essays by some of the best young French political thinkers writing today, including Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry, and Alain Renaut. The central theme of these essays is liberal democracy: its nature, its development, its problems, its fundamental legitimacy. Although these themes are familiar to American and British readers, the French approach to them--which is profoundly historical and rooted in the tradition of continental philosophy--is quite different from our customary one. Included in this collection is a series of reconsiderations of French critics of liberal society (Levi-Strauss, Foucault, Bourdieu) and of classical European liberals (Kant, Constant, Tocqueville). The continuing controversies over the nature of the modern era and the place of religion within it play a central role throughout the collection. The book includes a debate on the foundations of human rights and on the nature of a liberal political order.
The concluding section presents some of the new sociological writing on modern individualism, its pleasures and its discontents. An introduction by Mark Lilla provides the historical background to the revival of French political thought about liberalism, and offers an analysis of what American and English readers might learn from it. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Contents
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Legitimacy of the Liberal Age3Ch. 1Levi-Strauss38Ch. 2Foucault54Ch. 3Bourdieu63Ch. 4Kant and Fichte74Ch. 5Constant82Ch. 6Tocqueville91Ch. 7Primitive Religion and the Origins of the State116Ch. 8The Modern State123Ch. 9Ancient, Modern, and Contemporary134Ch. 10How to Think about Rights148Ch. 11Rights and Natural Law155Ch. 12Rights and Modern Law164Ch. 13The Contest for Command178Ch. 14On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation186Ch. 15Modernization and Consensus201Ch. 16May '68, or the Rise of Transpolitical Individualism212Ch. 17The End of Alienation?220Ch. 18The Rebirth of Voluntary Servitude226Notes on the Authors233Selected Bibliography235
