Pierre Rosanvallon’s Political Thought: Interdisciplinary Approaches

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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. Cover ......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 1. Introduction......Page 10 2. The Political Theory of Democracy......Page 24 3. Political Theory through History. Pierre Rosanvallon’ s Concepts of Representation and the People and their Importance for Understanding Populism......Page 40 4. Rather Topics than Disciplines. Pierre Rosanvallon’s Interdisciplinary Political Thought......Page 62 5. Writing the History of Democracy as a History of Tensions, Antinomies and Indeterminacies. Pierre Rosanvallon’s Method of Conceptual History......Page 76 6. On the Critical Potential of Rosanvallon’s Wide Definition of Democracy......Page 100 7. Restocking the Storehouse of Democratic Ideas. Pierre Rosanvallon at the Collège de France (2002-2018)......Page 120 8. Democracy and the Press in Rosanvallon’s Historiography......Page 134 9. Pierre Rosanvallon in Context. The Crisis of Republicanism and the Democratic Experience......Page 160 10. Organizing the Political. Understanding the Crisis of Democracy with Rosanvallon......Page 176 11. Governing Democratically. A Reconceptualization of the Executive based on Pierre Rosanvallon......Page 200 12. Coals to Newcastle......Page 218 13. Pierre Rosanvallon’s Pragmatic Turn......Page 230 The Authors......Page 248