The State and the Rule of Law - Couverture rigide

Kriegel, Blandine

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691032912 ISBN 13 : 9780691032917

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Blandine Kriegel, at one time a collaborator with Michel Foucault, is one of France's foremost political theorists. This translation of her work "L'Etat et les esclaves" makes available for English-speaking readers her defence of the state. Published in France in 1979 and republished in 1989, this work challenged not only the anti-statism of the 1960s but also generations of romanticism in politics that, in Kriegel's view, inadvertently threatened the cause of liberty by refusing to distinguish between the despotic and the lawful state. In a work that addresses the urgent concerns of Europe and the contemporary world as a whole, Kriegel examines the background of modern liberal democracy in the late 17th and 18th centuries and argues for the future of constitutional social-democracy. She maintains, among other positions, that European liberal democracies would have been impossible without the political basis provided by the lawful state first developed by monarchies. She also shows that early modern centralized states became liberal insofar as they developed a centralized legal system, rather than a centralized administration. In developing these ideas, she presents a picture of the state as a major force for human liberty.

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À propos de l'auteur

Blandine Kriegel teaches philosophy at the University of Lyons, and is the author of the four-volume Les historiens et la monarchie, among other works. She is the editor of the new journal Philosophie politique.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691032912
• ISBN 13: 9780691032917
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 176
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