Pluralism and the Idea of the Republic in France

by Wright, Julian; Jones, H. S.

• ISBN13: 9780230272095
• ISBN10: 0230272096
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The idea of the centralized State has played a powerful role in shaping French republicanism. But for two hundred years, many have tried to find other ways of being French and Republican. These essays challenge the traditional account, bringing together new insights from leading scholars.

Author Biography

Julian Wright is Senior Lecturer in History at Durham University, UK, and co-editor of the journal French History. H.S. Jones is Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Manchester, UK.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vii
Notes on Contributors	p. viii
A Pluralist History of France?	p. 1
The Idea of the Plural Republic
Liberal Republicanism after the Tenor: Charles-Guillaume Théremin and Germaine de Staël	p. 25
Liberal Pluralism in the Early Nineteenth Century: Benjamin Constant and Germaine de Staël	p. 41
A Strange Liberalism: Freedom and Aristocracy in French Political Thought	p. 66
P.-J. Proudhon: Pluralism, Justice and Society	p. 85
Pluralism's Political Conditions: Social Realism and the Revolutionary Tradition in Pierre Leroux, P.-J. Proudhon and Alfred Fouillée	p. 99
Utopian Pluralism in Twentieth-Century France	p. 122
The Plural Republic
Electoral Antipluralism and Electoral Pluralism in France, from the Mid-Nineteenth Century to 1914	p. 141
Associations and Political Pluralism: The Effects of the Law of 1901	p. 161
Vision and Reality: Joseph Paul-Boncour and Third Republic Pluralism	p. 179
Regionalism, Federalism and Internationalism in First World War France	p. 198
State Sovereignty in Question: The French Jurists between the Reorganization of the International System and European Regionalism, 1920-1950	p. 215
Pluralism, Parliament and the Possibility of a Sénat fédérateur, 1940-1969	p. 231
Epilogue: French Politics, History, and a New Perspective on the Jacobin State	p. 248
Index	p. 264
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