The state and the rule of law / Blandine Kriegel ; translated by Marc A. LePain and Jeffrey C. Cohen ; with a foreword by Donald R. Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kriegel, Blandine.

Series:

New French thought.

New French thought

Standardized Title:

Etat et les esclaves. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil rights.

Human rights.

State, The.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (190 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Blandine Kriegel, at one time a collaborator with Michel Foucault, is one of France's foremost political theorists. This translation of her celebrated work L'Etat et les esclaves makes available for English-speaking readers her impassioned defense of the state. Published in France in 1979 and republished in 1989, this work challenged not only the anti-statism of the 1960's but also generations of romanticism in politics that, in Kriegel's view, inadvertently threatened the cause of liberty by refusing to distinguish between the despotic and the lawful state. In a work that addresses the urgent concerns of Europe and the contemporary world as a whole, Kriegel examines the background of modern liberal democracy in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and argues cogently for the future of constitutional social-democracy. She maintains, among other positions, that European liberal democracies would have been impossible without the political basis provided by the lawful state first developed by monarchies. She also shows that early modern centralized states became liberal insofar as they developed a centralized legal system, rather than a centralized administration. In developing these ideas, she presents a picture of the state as a major force for human liberty.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword / Kelley, Donald R.

Introduction. The Paradoxes of Anti-statism

Part One: The State and the Rule of Law

Chapter I. Problems for a History of the State

Chapter II. Sovereign Power

Chapter III. Human Rights

Chapter IV. Law and Morality

Chapter V. Toward a History of the French State

Chapter VI. Inflections

Part Two: The State and Despotism

Chapter VII. Romanticism and Totalitarianism

Chapter VIII. Anti-statism and Nationalism

Chapter IX. Anti-juridism

Chapter X. The Secularization of Faith

Chapter XI. Marx's Romanticism

Chapter XII. The State under the Rule of Despotism

Conclusion. The State and the Slaves

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-170) and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786612752285

9781282752283

1282752286

9781400821761

1400821762

9781400812448

1400812445

OCLC:

700688254