Citizens and Citoyens : Republicans and Liberals in America and France / Mark Hulliung.
2002
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Title
Citizens and Citoyens : Republicans and Liberals in America and France / Mark Hulliung.
Author
Hulliung, Mark, author.
ISBN
9780674274013
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (274 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674274013 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
320.51/0944
Summary
In a tour de force of comparative intellectual history, Mark Hulliung sharply challenges conventional wisdom about the political nature of the "sister republics," America and France. Hulliung argues that the standard American account of a continuous Jacobin republican tradition--"illiberal to the core"--is fatally misleading. In reality it was the nineteenth-century French liberals who undermined the cause of liberalism, and it was French republicans who eventually saved liberal ideals. And comparison with France provides compelling evidence that the American republic was from the beginning both liberal and republican; Americans have been engaged in the "right debate, wrong country." Antiliberal intellectuals--New Leftists, neoconservatives, and communitarians alike--have disfigured much of the "republican" scholarship by falsely conjuring up a history of the United States wherein rooted and moral republicans once held sway where today we encounter uprooted and amoral liberals. Lively, stimulating, and sure to be controversial, Citizens and Citoyens is a valuable contribution to the political culture debate.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF FRENCH POLITICAL REGIMES
1 Republicanism and/or Liberalism?
2 "Rights Talk" in American and French Accents
3 The Institutions and Ethos of Freedom
4 The Uses of Republican Rhetoric in America
5 The Strange Career of Liberalism in France
6 Liberal, Illiberal, and Antiliberal Republics
NOTES
INDEX
CONTENTS
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF FRENCH POLITICAL REGIMES
1 Republicanism and/or Liberalism?
2 "Rights Talk" in American and French Accents
3 The Institutions and Ethos of Freedom
4 The Uses of Republican Rhetoric in America
5 The Strange Career of Liberalism in France
6 Liberal, Illiberal, and Antiliberal Republics
NOTES
INDEX