Citizens and citoyens : republicans and liberals in America and France / Mark Hulliung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hulliung, Mark, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Republicanism--France--History.

Republicanism.

Republicanism--United States--History.

Liberalism--United States--History.

Liberalism.

Liberalism--France--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2002]

Summary:

In a tour de force of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the "sister republics," America and France. Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals. And comparison with France provides compelling evidence that the American republic was from the beginning both liberal and republican; Americans have been engaged in the "right debate, wrong country." Antiliberal intellectuals--New Leftists, neoconservatives, and communitarians alike--have disfigured much of the "republican" scholarship by falsely conjuring up a history of the United States wherein rooted and moral republicans once held sway where today we encounter uprooted and amoral liberals. Lively, stimulating, and sure to be controversial, Citizens and Citoyens is a valuable contribution to the political culture debate.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF FRENCH POLITICAL REGIMES

1 Republicanism and/or Liberalism?

2 “Rights Talk” in American and French Accents

3 The Institutions and Ethos of Freedom

4 The Uses of Republican Rhetoric in America

5 The Strange Career of Liberalism in France

6 Liberal, Illiberal, and Antiliberal Republics

NOTES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780674274013

0674274016

OCLC:

1286426689