Suchergebnisse
Filter
20 Ergebnisse
Sortierung:
The virtues of violence: democracy against disintegration in modern France
In: Oxford scholarship online
This book uncovers an unfamiliar vision of political violence that nonetheless prevailed in modern French thought: that through "redemptive violence" the people would not rend but regenerate society. It homes in on invocations of popular redemptive violence across four historical moments in France specifically: the French Revolution, Algeria's colonization, the Paris Commune, and the eve of the first World War. In each of these cases, the book reveals how French thinkers experienced democratization as social disintegration. Yet, before such danger, they also proclaimed that virtuous violence by the people could repair the social fabric. The path leading from an anarchic multitude to an organized democratic society required, not violence's prohibition, but its virtuous expression by the people.
The necessity of philosophical anthropology: on Alfaro Altamirano's The Belief in Intuition
In: History of European ideas, S. 1-3
ISSN: 0191-6599
The sorcerer's apprentices of interwar France
In: History of European ideas, Band 49, Heft 8, S. 1204-1219
ISSN: 0191-6599
Robespierre: The Man Who Divides Us the Most. By Marcel Gauchet. Translated by Malcolm DeBevoise. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2022. 224p. $35.00 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 20, Heft 4, S. 1442-1444
ISSN: 1541-0986
Praxis and revolution: A theory of social transformation: Eva von Redecker. Translated by Lucy Duggan. New York, Columbia University Press, 2021, xvi+296 pp., ISBN: 9780231198226
In: Contemporary political theory: CPT, Band 22, Heft S4, S. 157-160
ISSN: 1476-9336
Violence: Introduction to the Special Issue
In: New political science: official journal of the New Political Science Caucus with APSA, Band 44, Heft 1, S. 27-41
ISSN: 1469-9931
Universal Suffrage as Decolonization
In: American political science review, Band 115, Heft 2, S. 412-428
ISSN: 1537-5943
This essay reconstructs an important but forgotten dream of twentieth-century political thought: universal suffrage as decolonization. The dream emerged from efforts by Black Atlantic radicals to conscript universal suffrage into wider movements for racial self-expression and cultural revolution. Its proponents believed a mass franchise could enunciate the voice of colonial peoples inside imperial institutions and transform the global order. Recuperating this insurrectionary conception of the ballot reveals how radicals plotted universal suffrage and decolonization as a single historical process. It also places decolonization's fate in a surprising light: it may have been the century's greatest act of disenfranchisement. As dependent territories became nation-states, they lost their voice in metropolitan assemblies whose affairs affected them long after independence.
The Left and Henri Bergson
In: French politics, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 359-379
ISSN: 1476-3427
Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity. By Massimiliano Tomba. New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 304p. $34.95 cloth
In: Perspectives on politics, Band 18, Heft 1, S. 237-238
ISSN: 1541-0986
The Left and Henri Bergson
In: French politics, Band 18, Heft 4, S. 359-379
ISSN: 1476-3419
World Affairs Online
No Social Revolution Without Sexual Revolution
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 47, Heft 6, S. 809-835
ISSN: 1552-7476
Recent studies have revealed how workers' movements adapted republicanism into a language of anticapitalism in the nineteenth century. Much less attention has been paid, however, to the role feminists played in this process. This essay addresses this oversight by introducing the voices of the utopian socialists under July Monarchy France. These socialists insisted that there could be no social revolution without sexual revolution. Although they are often positioned outside of the republican tradition, this essay argues that the utopian socialists are better understood as rendering the legacy of classical and French republicanism compatible with nascent workers' movements in the 1830s. By foregrounding the feminist Flora Tristan, this essay shows how utopian socialists weaponized republican tropes to address the social question, thereby expanding what a republican critique of capitalism could look like.
The Demands of Glory: Tocqueville and Terror in Algeria
In: The review of politics, Band 80, Heft 1, S. 31-55
ISSN: 1748-6858
AbstractIt is now commonplace to acknowledge Alexis de Tocqueville's support for Algerian colonization. Less well understood, however, is why he also endorsed the French strategy of "total war" in the regency. How was Tocqueville's liberalism linked to the specific shape of violence in Algeria? By situating his Algerian writings in the intersecting intellectual contexts of the 1840s, this essay argues that Tocqueville endorsed total war in Africa because of his passion for glory. Far from an aristocratic anachronism, that passion was the product of contemporary scientific debates over voluntarism in France. It was also shaped by the lingering legacies of revolutionary republicanism and Bonapartism which defined glory in terms of national defense. By tethering modern liberty to this conception of glory, Tocqueville provided resources for rationalizing settlerism's exterminationist violence.
The People as a Natural Disaster: Redemptive Violence in Jacobin Political Thought
In: American political science review, Band 111, Heft 4, S. 786-800
ISSN: 1537-5943
The trial and execution of Louis XVI served as a founding act of French republican democracy. It was also a scene of irregular justice: no legal warrants or procedural precedents existed for bringing a king to justice before the law. This essay describes how Jacobins crafted a new language of popular agency to overcome that obstacle—the language of redemptive violence. Although redemptive violence had roots in prerevolutionary notions of penal justice and social cohesion, its philosophical ambitions were revolutionary and modern. Analyzing that language illuminates how republican democracy weaponized a distinctive ideology of extralegal violence at its origins. It also helps explain redemptive violence's enduring appeal during and after the French Revolution.