ISBN:
9781316329382
,
9781107061514
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (316 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version A Divided Republic : Nation, State and Citizenship in Contemporary France
DDC:
306.20944
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Bold interpretation of contemporary French political culture that uses current political debates to understand how the French engage with politics
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Note on translation; Introduction: French politics after the deluge; Part I Writing the national narrative in contemporary France; The return of republicanism; 1 Writing histories: two republican narratives; Republicanism in modern French history; The institutional narrative: the Republic as lieu de mémoire; The transformative narrative: the Republic as laïcité; 2 From nouveaux philosophes to nouveaux réactionnaires: Marxism and the Republic; Régis Debray's revolutionary Republic
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Alain Finkielkraut's Republic of LettersThe perennial return of the French intellectual?; 3 La République en danger! The search for consensus and the rise of neo-republican politics; Adieu 89? The search for political consensus in the 1980s; La République à l'attaque! Headscarves, parité and regional languages; The all-conquering Republic?; 4 Post-colonies I: integration, disintegration and citizenship; Dividing the nation: immigration, the Front National and la fracture sociale; Repairing the nation: the Haut Conseil à l'intégration
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
From intégration to communautarisme: the language of integration and the French eliteIntégration à la française: a political paradigm; 5 The Republic, the Anglo-Saxon and the European project; The anti-France? Economics and the modèle anglo-saxon; Dystopias: Anglo-Saxon society; The Anglo-Saxon in Europe; The global Republic?; Part II Liberal critics of contemporary France; Le libéralisme introuvable?; 6 In the shadow of Raymond Aron: the 'liberal revival' of the 1980s; Celebrating Raymond Aron, 1983-2010; Securing the liberal revival: the journal Commentaire
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
A mature French liberalism at last?7 Rewriting Jacobinism: François Furet, Pierre Rosanvallon and modern French history; The melancholy liberalism of François Furet; Solidarity and civil society: Pierre Rosanvallon and the construction of the liberal political space; The strange liberalism of François Furet and Pierre Rosanvallon; 8 Post-colonies II: the politics of multiculturalism and colonial memory; La France ethnique? Multiculturalism, droit à la difference and identity politics; La guerre des mémoires: colonial memory and the post-colonial challenge
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Postcolonialism as liberalism: an impossible equation?9 Whither the Trente Glorieuses? The language of crisis and the reform of the state; La France bloquée: the critique of the bureaucracy and the crise de la représentation; La France malade: reforming the 'French model'; La France ouverte? Looking beyond the Hexagon; La France économique? A changing language of politics; 10 Liberal politics in France: a story of failure?; Liberalism and the left: the legacies of the deuxième gauche; Liberalism and the right: from neo-liberalism to declinism; Liberal politics: defeated or defeatist?
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Conclusion: the search for consensus in twenty-first-century France
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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