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New French Thought: Political Philosophy

by Mark Lilla

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French perspectives on liberal democracy

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French perspectives on liberal democracy

This anthology gathers essays by French political thinkers including Marcel Gauchet, Pierre Manent, Luc Ferry, and Alain Renaut. Its organizing question is liberal democracy: how it developed, what problems it faces, and what grounds its legitimacy. The collection places those questions in a distinctly historical framework shaped by continental philosophy, offering a point of comparison with more familiar American and British approaches. It also includes reconsiderations of French critics of liberal society, though the supplied description does not specify their subjects.

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  • Readers interested in political philosophy and debates about liberal democracy.
  • Those seeking French and continental philosophical approaches to political ideas.
  • Readers exploring essays by Gauchet, Manent, Ferry, or Renaut.

Themes

Liberal democracyPolitical legitimacyHistorical approaches to political thoughtCritiques of liberal society

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Book overview

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 (L

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