Title A divided republic : nation, state and citizenship in contemporary France / Emile Chabal

Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on translation -- Introduction: French politics after the deluge -- Part I Writing the national narrative in contemporary France -- The return of republicanism -- 1 Writing histories: two republican narratives -- Republicanism in modern French history -- The institutional narrative: the Republic as lieu de mémoire -- The transformative narrative: the Republic as laïcité -- 2 From nouveaux philosophes to nouveaux réactionnaires: Marxism and the Republic -- Régis Debray's revolutionary Republic -- Alain Finkielkraut's Republic of Letters -- The perennial return of the French intellectual? -- 3 La République en danger! The search for consensus and the rise of neo-republican politics -- Adieu 89? The search for political consensus in the 1980s -- La République à l'attaque! Headscarves, parité and regional languages -- The all-conquering Republic? -- 4 Post-colonies I: integration, disintegration and citizenship -- Dividing the nation: immigration, the Front National and la fracture sociale -- Repairing the nation: the Haut Conseil à l'intégration -- From intégration to communautarisme: the language of integration and the French elite -- Intégration à la française: a political paradigm -- 5 The Republic, the Anglo-Saxon and the European project -- The anti-France? Economics and the modèle anglo-saxon -- Dystopias: Anglo-Saxon society -- The Anglo-Saxon in Europe -- The global Republic? -- Part II Liberal critics of contemporary France -- Le libéralisme introuvable? -- 6 In the shadow of Raymond Aron: the 'liberal revival' of the 1980s -- Celebrating Raymond Aron, 1983-2010 -- Securing the liberal revival: the journal Commentaire -- A mature French liberalism at last? 7 Rewriting Jacobinism: François Furet, Pierre Rosanvallon and modern French history -- The melancholy liberalism of François Furet -- Solidarity and civil society: Pierre Rosanvallon and the construction of the liberal political space -- The strange liberalism of François Furet and Pierre Rosanvallon -- 8 Post-colonies II: the politics of multiculturalism and colonial memory -- La France ethnique? Multiculturalism, droit à la difference and identity politics -- La guerre des mémoires: colonial memory and the post-colonial challenge -- Postcolonialism as liberalism: an impossible equation? -- 9 Whither the Trente Glorieuses? The language of crisis and the reform of the state -- La France bloquée: the critique of the bureaucracy and the crise de la représentation -- La France malade: reforming the 'French model' -- La France ouverte? Looking beyond the Hexagon -- La France économique? A changing language of politics -- 10 Liberal politics in France: a story of failure? -- Liberalism and the left: the legacies of the deuxième gauche -- Liberalism and the right: from neo-liberalism to declinism -- Liberal politics: defeated or defeatist? -- Conclusion: the search for consensus in twenty-first-century France -- Bibliography -- Archives and libraries consulted -- Interviews -- Published material -- Newspapers and magazines -- France -- United Kingdom and United States -- Government publications and reports -- Books and journal articles -- Unpublished material -- Audiovisual sources -- Radio -- Television -- Music/Audio/Film -- Internet resources and websites -- Index 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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Republicanism -- France Liberalism -- France HISTORY -- Europe -- General. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. Liberalism Politics and government Republicanism Republikanismus Liberalismus Politik SUBJECT France -- Politics and government -- 1958- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051489 Subject France Frankreich Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316319345 1316319342 9781107447936 1107447933 9781316332726 1316332721

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