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A divided republic : nation, state and citizenship in contemporary France

Title
A divided republic : nation, state and citizenship in contemporary France / Emile Chabal.
Author
Chabal, Emile.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
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Description
xii, 301 pages; 24 cm
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"--
Subject
  • Since 1958
  • Republicanism > France
  • Liberalism > France
  • HISTORY / Europe / General
  • Liberalism
  • Political science
  • Republicanism
  • France > Politics and government > 1958-
  • France
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-292) and index.
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?
Call Number
JFE 15-3558
ISBN
  • 9781107061514 (hardback)
  • 1107061512 (hardback)
  • 9781107692879 (paperback)
  • 1107692873 (paperback)
LCCN
2014042749
OCLC
898177126
Author
Chabal, Emile.
Title
A divided republic : nation, state and citizenship in contemporary France / Emile Chabal.
Publisher
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-292) and index.
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Since 1958
Research Call Number
JFE 15-3558
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