The Other Side of Representation: The History and Theory of Representative Government in Pierre Rosanvallon
Over the past decade, Anglophone scholars have taken a growing interest in the French liberal theorists who wrote in the wake of Claude Lefort. One thinker in particular who has become increasingly significant in American political theory is Pierre Rosanvallon. Of the many topics that Rosanvallon ha...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Constellations (Oxford, England) England), 2016-12, Vol.23 (4), p.548-562 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Over the past decade, Anglophone scholars have taken a growing interest in the French liberal theorists who wrote in the wake of Claude Lefort. One thinker in particular who has become increasingly significant in American political theory is Pierre Rosanvallon. Of the many topics that Rosanvallon has discussed, it is the theme of representation which has most resonated with American political theorists, a theme which he has addressed as both an historian and apolitical theorist. The second volume of Rosanvallon’s path-breaking trilogy on the history of France is centered on representation, and for several decades he has criticized contemporary democracies, above all France, for failing to be sufficiently representative. Our goal in this article is threefold. We aim to reconstruct the descriptivist elements that informed Rosanvallon’s political thought at the beginning of his career; to trace their continued significance in his oeuvre over the following three decades; and to consider whether they can be effectively reconciled with the constructivism with which Rosanvallon has been associated. |
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ISSN: | 1351-0487 1467-8675 |
DOI: | 10.1111/1467-8675.12220 |