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Marcel Gauchet and the Loss of Common Purpose: Imaginary Islam and the Crisis of European Democracy - Couverture rigide

Doyle, Natalie J.

 
9781498519175: Marcel Gauchet and the Loss of Common Purpose: Imaginary Islam and the Crisis of European Democracy
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ISBN 10 : 1498519172 ISBN 13 : 9781498519175
Editeur : Lexington Books, 2017

Synopsis

This bookexplores the work of Marcel Gauchet, one of France's most prominent contemporary intellectuals, to examine the contemporary crisis of European democracy. It does so by examining the threats from ideological co-radicalization associated with the combined impact of economic crisis and Islamic fundamentalism. It locates Gauchet's ideas in the context of French intellectual history and notes the significant influence upon it of the social and political theories of Cornelius Castoriadis and Claude Lefort and its reaction against those of Foucault. The book reviews the entire scope of Gauchet's writings, from the early publications to the most recent publications on the "new world" of neo-liberal individualism, economism, and globalization. The book reveals how Gauchet's work overcomes many of the misunderstandings affecting current discussions of controversial topics including the European Union, the nation-state, political Islam, the paradoxes of democracy, secularization, and reactionary political movements. It highlights the need for European societies to rediscover their political underpinnings: their capacity to invent a new collective future starting from the nation-state and to adapt to a new mode of international relations on a global scale. To do so, and to counter the threat of radicalization, they must retrieve the lost common purpose encapsulated in the notion of democratic sovereignty.

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À propos de l'auteur

Natalie J. Doyle is senior lecturer in French and European studies at Monash University and deputy director of the Monash European and European Union Centre.

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Éditeur
Lexington Books
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1498519172
ISBN 13 
9781498519175
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
294
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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