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Author	Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948-
Title	The demands of liberty : civil society in France since the Revolution / Pierre Rosanvallon ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 3	320.9 R	IN LIBRARY

Description	vi, 354 p. ; 24 cm.
Series	Harvard historical studies ; 154
Note	Originally published as: Le modèle politique français : la société civile contre le jacobinisme de 1789 à nos jours . Paris : Seuil, 2004.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-340) and index.
Contents	Utopian generality -- Generality as social form -- Generality as democratic quality: the principle of immediacy -- Generality as mode of regulation: the cult of law -- The question of origins -- Trials and recompositions -- The imperative of governability -- The sociological trial -- The requirement of liberty -- Resistance and reconfiguration -- Jacobinism amended -- The great turning point -- The trade union exception -- Liberty and institutions -- Polarized democracy -- The network state -- Differences and repetitions.
Note	Translated from the French.
Subject	Rosanvallon, Pierre, 1948- -- Translations into English.
	Democracy -- France.
	Representative government and representation -- France.
	France -- Politics and government.
	France -- History -- Revolution, 1789-1799 -- Influence.
Added Author	Goldhammer, Arthur, translator.
	New York Society Library. Book Committee. 2008. ZNS
Added Title	Modèle politique français. English
ISBN	9780674024960 (alk. paper)
	0674024966 (alk. paper)

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