Introduction: Democratic Pathways and the French Case

Part I. Utopian Generality

1. Generality as Social Form

2. Generality as Democratic Quality: The Principle of Immediacy

3. Generality as Mode of Regulation: The Cult of Law

4. The Question of Origins

Part II. Trials and Recompositions

5. The Imperative of Governability

6. The Sociological Trial

7. The Requirement of Liberty

8. Resistance and Recomposition

Part III. Jacobinism Amended

9. The Great Turning Point

10. The Trade Union Exception

11. Liberty and Institutions

12. Polarized Democracy

13. The Network State

14. Differences and Repetitions

Notes

Index

Pierre Rosanvallon is a Professor of Political History at the Collège de France and Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Arthur Goldhammer received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

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