Natalie J. Doyle

Marcel Gauchet and the Loss of Common Purpose (eBook, PDF)

Imaginary Islam and the Crisis of European Democracy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216272526
• Artikelnr.: 74832771

Autorenporträt

Natalie Doyle is deputy director of Monash University's European and EU Centre.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: French Post-Marxist Theory
and Gauchet's Model of Critique Chapter 2: French Post-Marxist Theory and
the Political: Gauchet and Religion Chapter 3: Gauchet and the Genesis of
Modern Society Chapter 4: The Legacy of French Sociology and Anthropology:
Gauchet and the Question of the Post-Secular Chapter 5: The Crisis of
European Democracy: The Neo-Liberal Ideology and Political Radicalization
Conclusion Bibliography About the Author