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« We all shared the certainty that the decisive weakness of Marxism lay not so much in its economic and historical analysis as in its absence of political theory, and in particular of a theory of democracy. Marx had indeed developed the vision that the realization of communism would lead to a withering of the sphere of politics giving substance to the Saint-Simonian project of hastening the transition from the "government of men" to an "administration of things". »
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Our Intellectual and Political History 1968-2018 |
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Our Intellectual and Political History 1968-2018
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« What fascinated me about Guizot was also the process of shrinking an intelligence, the degradation of a liberal thought sharpened into a flat ideology, the conversion of a critical intellectual into a narrow-minded conservative. »
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Our Intellectual and Political History 1968-2018 |
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Our Intellectual and Political History 1968-2018
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« The term liberalism was the one that seemed the simplest to use to conveniently and collect this first generation of the paradigms of emancipation; I mobilized it. »
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Our Intellectual and Political History 1968-2018 |
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Pierre Rosanvallon
Our Intellectual and Political History 1968-2018
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