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French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day

There is an enduring assumption that the French have never been and will never be liberal . As with all clichs, this one contains a grain of truth, but it also overlooks an important school of thought that has been a constant presence in French intellectual and political culture for nearly three centuries: French political liberalism. In this collaborative volume, a distinguished group of philosophers, political theorists and intellectual historians uncover this unjustly neglected tradition. The chapters examine the nature and distinctiveness of French liberalism, providing a comprehensive treatment of major themes including French liberalisms relationship with republicanism, Protestantism, utilitarianism and the human rights tradition. Individual chapters are devoted to Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Aron, Lefort and Gauchet, as well as to some lesser-known, yet important, thinkers, including several political economists and French-style neoliberals. French Liberalism is essential reading for all those interested in the history of political thought.

Raf Geenens is a postdoctoral researcher at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium, where he also lectures on ethics and the history of natural law. His research, as a member of the Leuven-based research group RIPPLE, concerns contemporary models of democracy as well as the history of continental political philosophy. He is the co-editor of Reading Tocqueville. From Oracle to Actor (2007) and Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space (2009), and is preparing a monograph on contemporary French philosopher Claude Lefort.

Helena Rosenblatt is Professor of History at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where she teaches European Intellectual History. A specialist in French political thought, with a strong interest in religion, she is the author of Rousseau and Geneva: From the First Discourse to the Social Contract (1997) and Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (2008) and the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Constant (2009) and Rousseaus Second Discourse (2010). Her current research project is a history of liberalism. In 2010 Professor Rosenblatt won the Benjamin Constant Prize offered by the Institut Benjamin Constant in Lausanne, Switzerland.

French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day

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Raf Geenens

Helena Rosenblatt

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Contributors

Serge Audier is matre de conferences in moral philosophy and politics at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and a member of the Institut universitaire de France. He has published extensively on French liberalism, including, Tocqueville retrouv. Gense et enjeux du renouveau tocquevillien franais (2004), Raymond Aron, la dmocratie conflictuelle (2004), Le socialisme libral (2005), La pense solidariste. Aux sources du modle social rpublicain (2010), and No-Libralisme(s). Une archologie intellectuelle (2012).

Aurelian Craiutu is Associate Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He also serves as the director of the Tocqueville programme at Indiana University, and is associate editor of the European Journal of Political Theory . He is the author of several books including Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires (2003) (CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award), and Le centre introuvable: la pense politique des doctrinaires sous la Restauration (2006). A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought is forthcoming in 2011.

Raf Geenens is a postdoctoral researcher in Political Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. He has co-edited a volume on Alexis de Tocqueville, Reading Tocqueville: From Oracle to Actor (2007) and a volume on contemporary theories of democracy, Does Truth Matter? Democracy and Public Space (2009). He is the author of a forthcoming book on Claude Lefort, Being Democratic. On Claude Leforts Political Philosophy .

Stephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University. He has taught at Yale, Princeton, the University of Chicago and Harvard, and has written widely on the history of European liberalism. His numerous publications include Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (1984), The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (1993) and Passions and Constraint: The Theory of Liberal Democracy (1995).

Andrew Jainchill is Associate Professor of History at Queens University, Canada. He is the author of Reimagining Politics after the Terror: The Republican Origins of French Liberalism (2008), as well as articles and essays in French Historical Studies, Modern Intellectual History and the Journal of Modern History . He is currently working on the origins of revolutionary republicanism and concepts of sovereignty in the eighteenth century.

Lucien Jaume is Professor of Political Thought at Sciences Po, Paris. He is the author of Lindividu effac ou le paradoxe du libralisme franais (1997), Le discours jacobin et la dmocratie (1989) and Tocqueville: les sources aristocratiques de la libert (2008), which recently received the Guizot Prize of the Acadmie franaise. He is also one of the supervisors of new scholarly editions of both Benjamin Constants and Mme de Stals complete writings.

Alan S. Kahan has taught at the University of Chicago, Rice University and Florida International University. He currently teaches at Sciences Po and at the American Graduate School in Paris. He is the author of Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill and Alexis de Tocqueville (1992); Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage (2003); and Alexis de Tocqueville (2009). He has translated Tocquevilles The Old Regime and the Revolution (2001), and co-edited The Tocqueville Reader (2002). He is currently working on a book about the relationship between religion and democracy and translating Benjamin Constants Commentary on Filangieris Work .

William Logue is Professor Emeritus of History at Northern Illinois University. His work focuses on the history of French political thought. He is the author of Charles Renouvier: Philosopher of Liberty (1993); Lon Blum: The Formative Years, 18721914 (1973); and From Philosophy to Sociology: The Evolution of French Liberalism, 18701914 (1983).

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