Pierre Rosanvallon's political thought : : interdisciplinary approaches / / edited by Oliver Flügel-Martinsen [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Flügel, Oliver, 1977-
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Politikwissenschaft 2019
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248)

The work of Pierre Rosanvallon has increasingly found itself at the center of debates in democratic and political theory - although only few of his numerous monographs have thus far been translated from French. This interdisciplinary volume, the first comprehensive collection on his political thought in English, seeks to lay the groundwork for the study of this eminent political thinker and historian. Following a hitherto untranslated opening essay by Rosanvallon, the chapters - written from a variety of disciplinary perspectives including political theory, political science, philosophy, and history - cover a wide range of topics from the history of democracy to sovereignty, populism, and the function of the press in liberal democratic regimes.

»Der Sammelband [führt] eindrücklich vor Augen, wie ergiebig die Kombination aus Geschichte und Philosophie sein kann.« Sebastian Jutisz, Francia recencio, 1 (2020)

Table of Contents

Frontmatter 1 Contents 5 Preface 7 1. Introduction 9 2. The Political Theory of Democracy 23 3. Political Theory through History Pierre Rosanvallon' s Concepts of Representation and the People and their Importance for Understanding Populism 39 4. Rather Topics than Disciplines Pierre Rosanvallon's Interdisciplinary Political Thought 61 5. Writing the History of Democracy as a History of Tensions, Antinomies and Indeterminacies. Pierre Rosanvallon's Method of Conceptual History 75 6. On the Critical Potential of Rosanvallon's Wide Definition of Democracy 99 7. Restocking the Storehouse of Democratic Ideas Pierre Rosanvallon at the Collège de France (2002-2018) 119 8. Democracy and the Press in Rosanvallon's Historiography 133 9. Pierre Rosanvallon in Context The Crisis of Republicanism and the Democratic Experience 159 10. Organizing the Political Understanding the Crisis of Democracy with Rosanvallon 175 11. Governing Democratically A Reconceptualization of the Executive based on Pierre Rosanvallon 199 12. Coals to Newcastle 217 13. Pierre Rosanvallon's Pragmatic Turn 229 The Authors 247