French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society? (repost)
French Political Thought from Montesquieu to Tocqueville: Liberty in a Levelled Society?
Cambridge University Press | 2008-03-10 | ISBN: 0521877881 | 230 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
Cambridge University Press | 2008-03-10 | ISBN: 0521877881 | 230 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB
This study makes a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most important and enduring strands of modern political thought. Annelien de Dijn argues that Montesquieu's aristocratic liberalism - his conviction that the preservation of freedom in a monarchy required the existence of an aristocratic 'corps intermédiaire' - had a continued impact on post-revolutionary France. Revisionist historians from Furet to Rosanvallon have emphasised the impact of revolutionary republicanism on post-revolutionary France, with its monist conception of politics and its focus on popular sovereignty.