Liberalism under Siege The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires,9780739106587

Liberalism under Siege The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires

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ISBN13: 9780739106587
ISBN10: 0739106589
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-09-16
Publisher(s): Lexington Books
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Summary

Liberalism Under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaires, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to democracy. It combines textual analysis and historical interpretation to explore the Doctrinaires' ideas on the French Revolution, democracy, political power, sovereignty of reason, publicity, capacity, and representative government.

Author Biography

Aurelian Craiutu is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he teaches history of political thought and modern political theory.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
by Alan Ryan
Preface xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Chapter 1 In Lieu of Introduction 1(18)
A Strange and Unfair Neglect
1(8)
Between Archaeology and Renovation
9(10)
Chapter 2 The French Doctrinaires and Their Epoch 19(38)
A Golden Age of Political Thought
19(7)
Who Were the French Doctrinaires?
26(6)
"Lord Guizot"
32(7)
An Enigmatic Figure
39(6)
Between Pragmatism and Opportunism
45(12)
Chapter 3 Between Scylla and Charybdis 57(30)
The Return of Clio
57(5)
Pluralism, Liberty, and European Civilization
62(8)
The Charter of 1814
70(5)
The Doctrinaires' Juste Milieu
75(12)
Chapter 4 Democracy, Civilization, and the French Revolution 87(36)
A Few Similarities and Differences
88(5)
The Hidden Dialogue between
Tocqueville and Guizot
93(7)
A Classic Comparison: France and England
100(4)
Democracy as État Social
104(8)
In Lieu of Conclusion
112(11)
Chapter 5 The Sovereignty of Reason 123(32)
Sovereignty in French Political Thought
124(5)
Reason and will
129(4)
The Sovereignty of Reason and the Sovereignty of the People
133(6)
A Surprising Affinity: Guizot and Cortés
139(3)
The Institutional Implications of the Sovereignty of Reason
142(13)
Chapter 6 Political Power and the "New Means of Government" 155(30)
A New Way of Conceptualizing Political Power
155(7)
The "New Means of Government"
162(10)
The Doctrinaires' Liberalism of Government
172(13)
Chapter 7 The Battle for Representative Government 185(32)
Representative Government in an Eclectic Age
185(7)
The "Principium et Fons" of Representative Government
192(5)
Guizot's Early Views on Representative Government
197(6)
"The Word Representation Is a Metaphor"
203(14)
Chapter 8 Representation and Political Capacity 217(28)
The Goals of Representative Government
217(6)
Political Capacity
223(4)
The Triumph of the Middle Class
227(4)
The Electoral Law of 1817
231(4)
Rights and Capacity
235(10)
Chapter 9 Publicity and Representative Government 245(28)
Public Opinion and Publicity: The Eighteenth-Century Background
246(3)
Publicity, Elections, and Political Representation
249(7)
Freedom of the Press
256(17)
Chapter 10 The Elitist Liberalism of the French Doctrinaires Revisited 273(26)
Summary
273(3)
French Liberalism: An Oxymoron?
276(6)
The Liberalism of the French Doctrinaires
282(5)
Rethinking Liberalism
287(4)
"Gray Is Beautiful"
291(8)
Bibliography 299(22)
Index 321(16)
About the Author 337

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