Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract
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- ISBN 9781529212204
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 08 Jan 2021
- Publisher: Bristol University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses what lessons can be drawn from their activities and the impact for the contemporary relationship between state and citizen.
Informed by a dialogue with past political theorists – from Hobbes, Spinoza and Rousseau to Rawls, Nozick and Diderot – and reflecting on the challenges posed by the yellow vest movement, the author rethinks the concept of the social contract for contemporary societies around the world. It proposes a new relationship between the state and the individual, and establishes the necessity of rethinking the modern democratic nature of our representative polities in order to provide a genuine process for the healing of social ills.
