New French Thought
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Civil society
Claude Levi-Strauss
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Criticism
Critique
Deliberation
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Democracy
Despotism
Disenchantment
Doctrine
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Externality
Good and evil
Hegelianism
Historicism
Ideology
Individualism
Institution
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Leo Strauss
Liberalism
Louis Althusser
Luc Ferry
Marcel Gauchet
Martin Heidegger
Marxism
Modernity
Montesquieu
Moral relativism
Morality
Natural and legal rights
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Philosophy
Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
Philosophy of history
Pierre Manent
Political alienation
Political Liberalism
Political philosophy
Politics
Politique
Popular sovereignty
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Radical feminism
Rationality
Relativism
Republicanism
Science
Scientism
Secularization
Self-ownership
Slavery
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Sovereignty
State (polity)
State of nature
Structural anthropology
Subjectivism
Subjectivity
Superiority (short story)
The Open Society and Its Enemies
The Social Contract
Theodicy
Theory
Thomas Hobbes
Thought
Totalitarianism
Unanimity
Vitalism
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- ISBN 9780691634609
- Weight: 652g
- Dimensions: 178 x 254mm
- Publication Date: 19 Apr 2016
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
