L'Etat en France de 1789 à nos jours

by Pierre Rosanvallon

L’État en France de 1789 à nos jours Le très petit nombre de travaux consacrés à l’histoire de l’État français contraste singulièrement avec la vigueur des jugements qui s’expriment à son propos. D’où le décalage : l’État comme problème politique, ou comme phénomène bureaucratique, est au cœur des passions partisanes et des débats philosophiques tout en restant une sorte de non-objet historique. Ce quasi-vide, Pierre Rosanvallon a voulu commencer à le combler dans cet ouvrage, qui est à la fois bilan et programme. Bilan, car il propose une première synthèse des travaux disponibles et offre une vaste bibliographie commentée. Programme, puisqu'il dessine un nouveau cadre conceptuel pour comprendre l’histoire de l’État. Pierre Rosanvallon Né en 1948, professeur au Collège de France, il dirige le site laviedesidees.fr et anime par ailleurs « La République des idées ». Il a notamment publié au Seuil La Société des égaux (« Points Essais » n° 707, 2013).

Genres: Nonfiction, History

384 pages, Pocket Book

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Pierre Rosanvallon (b. 1948, Blois) is a French intellectual and historian, named professor at the Collège de France in 2001. He holds there the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. His works are dedicated to the history of democracy, French political history, the role of the state and the question of social justice in contemporary societies. He is also director of studies at the EHESS, where he leads the Raymond Aron Centre of Political Researches. Rosanvallon was in the 1970s one of the primary theoreticians of workers' self-management in the CFDT trade union.

He is diplomed from the HEC management school. In 1982, he created the Fondation Saint-Simon think-tank, along with François Furet. The Fondation dissolved in December 1999. Since 2002, Rosanvallon is member of the Scientific Counsel of the French National Library, and has the same functions, since 2004, at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris.

Rosanvallon created in 2002 La République des Idées, an "intellectual workshop" which he presides. The group publishes a review and books.

Reviews

[Iamthesword · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recommendation for researchers (everyone else'll see why)

If your research is about modern French history, you never and always need to read this book at the same time. It describes the longterm shifts in the characteristics of French statehood. It is a helpful background for all topics, but it doesn't answer any of the specific questions you tackle - therefor it lays on your desk for weeks (or longer). My tipp: Read it in little portions at the end of workdays when you don't want to start something new. It takes a while, but it is a valuable addition to see the roots of things you encounter in your sources. (But skipp the last 5 pages: the prediction from 1990 didn't hold up that well...).

[Anns · Rating 3 out of 5]

La loi ne stipule pas!!!!