A divided republic : nation, state and citizenship in contemporary France / Emile Chabal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chabal, Emile, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Republicanism--France.

Republicanism.

Liberalism--France.

Liberalism.

France--Politics and government--1958-.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 301 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Summary:

This book is an original and sophisticated historical interpretation of contemporary French political culture. Until now, there have been few attempts to understand the political consequences of the profound geopolitical, intellectual and economic changes that France has undergone since the 1970s. However, Emile Chabal's detailed study shows how passionate debates over citizenship, immigration, colonial memory, the reform of the state and the historiography of modern France have galvanised the French elite and created new spaces for discussion and disagreement. Many of these debates have coalesced around two political languages - republicanism and liberalism - both of which structure the historical imagination and the symbolic vocabulary of French political actors. The tension between these two political languages has become the central battleground of contemporary French politics. It is around these two poles that politicians, intellectuals and members of France's vast civil society have tried to negotiate the formidable challenges of ideological uncertainty and a renewed sense of global insecurity.

Contents:

1. Writing histories: two republican narratives

2. From nouveaux philosophes to nouveaux re;actionnaires: Marxism and the Republic

3. La Re;publique en danger! The search for consensus and the rise of neo-republican politics

4. Postcolonies I: integration, disintegration and citizenship

5. The Republic, the Anglo-Saxon and the European project

6. In the shadow of Raymond Aron: the 'liberal revival' of the 1980s

7. Rewriting Jacobinism: François Furet, Pierre Rosanvallon and modern French history

8. Postcolonies II: the politics of multiculturalism and colonial memory

9. Whither the Trente Glorieuses? The language of crisis and the reform of the state

10. Liberal politics in France: a story of failure?

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-316-28861-7

1-316-32270-X

1-316-30932-0

1-316-32604-7

1-316-32938-0

1-107-69287-3

1-107-44793-3

1-316-31934-2

1-316-33272-1