Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
