Is the French Revolution over?
This is a book review of Marcel Gauchet’s Robespierre: The Man Who Divides us the Most (Princeton University Press, 2022) The name Robespierre still haunts the memory of the French […]
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L’affaire Lilla
Lilla swings hard. On almost every page of this essay we learn that as far as American politics goes, someone has done or is doing something they shouldn’t; someone […]
MoreThoughts on Gauchet’s L’Avènement de la démocratie
Guest contributor Michael C. Behrent teaches modern European history at Appalachian State University (North Carolina). After recently publishing a review of Marcel Gauchet’s L’Avènement de la démocratie series for Dissent, Michael had […]
MoreMarcel Gauchet: “There has been an absolute victory of the democratic principle”
(From 2018) Marcel Gauchet is a philosopher and historian. He is an emeritus director of studies at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, and editor in chief of […]
MoreMarcel Gauchet: “Les trente dernières années ont vu la victoire absolue du principe démocratique”
(Article datant de 2018.) Marcel Gauchet est philosophe et historien, directeur d’études émerite à l’Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales et rédacteur en chef de la revue Le débat. […]
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