This remarkable synthesis clarifies contemporary debates on the republic, whose historical and conceptual genealogy reappears in Europe with the Renaissance. From Machiavelli and Rousseau via the theorists of the Third Republic to analysis of the mai ...
This remarkable synthesis clarifies contemporary debates on the republic, whose historical and conceptual genealogy reappears in Europe with the Renaissance. From Machiavelli and Rousseau via the theorists of the Third Republic to analysis of the main contemporary political theories, Serge Audier offers a complete overview of the major theories of the republic. Where do republican ideals come from and what precisely do they mean? The republic (from the Latin res publica: the "public thing"), which reappears in Europe with the Renaissance, embodies political freedom against arbitrariness: its main themes are the primacy of the common interest over particular interests, the government laws, civic virtue. We present here how these ideas were taken up, from Machiavelli and Rousseau to the theorists of the Third Republic, who developed a republican model irreducible to liberalism and socialism. The republican idea is today at the center of new questions, both in France and in the English-speaking world. What responses can republicanism provide to the difficulties of democratic societies, marked by the rise of exclusion and the crisis of social and political ties? Should it be transformed in the current context of globalization, characterized by a weakening of nation-states and the rise of multiculturalism? Based on an analysis of the main contemporary political theories (Rawls, Skinner, Pettit, Habermas and Taylor), the work draws out the logic of the positions on the meaning and future of the republican idea.
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