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In search of the liberal moment : democracy, anti-totalitarianism, and intellectual politics in France since 1950
Title
In search of the liberal moment : democracy, anti-totalitarianism, and intellectual politics in France since 1950 / edited by Stephen W. Sawyer and Iain Stewart.
ISBN
9781137578235
1137578238
Publication
New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Physical Description
222 pages cm
Summary
"The revival of liberal thought in France during the 1970s and 1980s is one of the most remarkable developments in contemporary European intellectual history, yet it remains surprisingly understudied. In this book, British, American, and French scholars offer a fresh take on France's late twentieth-century liberal revival and examines how neo-liberalism in France developed and influenced contemporary French politics and policy. The book opens with a critical introduction which defines the notion of a French liberal renaissance, examines the existing historiography, and sets out the new questions which the contributors to this volume have sought to address. The ideological heterogeneity of the liberal renaissance is explored in Part I, which examines the origins and orientations of its left, centrist, and conservative variants. Part II critiques the liberal revival and reconsiders the significance of two figures whose work informed it: François Furet and Michel Foucault. The final part of the book examines how the neo-liberalism of the Chicago and Austrian schools of economic thought was repackaged for French audiences, and examines the emergence of new forms of French anti-liberalism which emerged in response. The book concludes with an epilogue which considers the legacy of the liberal revival in contemporary France"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 09, 2016
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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Introduction. 'New Perspectives on France's 'Liberal Moment'; Stephen W. Sawyer and Iain Stewart, 1. 'Taking Anti-totalitarianism Seriously: the Emergence of the Aronian Circle in the 1970s'; Gwendal Châton 2. 'Plettenburg not Paris: Julian Freund, the New Right and France's Liberal Moment'; Daniel Steinmatz-Jenkins 3. 'Rethinking the French Liberal Moment: Some Thoughts on the Heterogeneous Origins of Lefort and Gauchet's Social Philosophy'; Noah Rosenblum 4. 'On the Supposed Illiberalism of Republican Political Culture in France'; Jean-Fabien Spitz 5. 'The Best Help I Could Find to Help Understand our Present': François Furet's Anti-revolutionary Reading of Tocqueville's Democracy in America'; Michael Scott Christofferson 6. 'Capitalism and its Critics: Anti-liberalism in Contemporary French Politics'; Emile Chabal 7. 'Foucault and the French Liberal Revival'; Michael Behrent 8. 'The French Reception of American Neoliberalism in the late 1970s'; Serge Audier Epilogue. 'Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democratic Theory'; Stephen W. Sawyer.
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