'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
Ecole 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.
Bibliography
★ ''Democracy Past and Future'', (
Columbia University Press, 2006) ISBN 0231137400 (
excerpts)
★ '' The Demands of Liberty — Civil Society in France since the Revolution'', Harvard 2007, ISBN 0674024966
★ ''L'Âge de l'autogestion'', Le Seuil, coll. Points politique, 1976, 246 p.
★ ''La Crise de l'État-providence'', Le Seuil, 1981 (transl. in 2000, ''The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State'', ISBN 9780691016405)
★ ''Le Moment Guizot'', Gallimard, 1985
★ ''L'État en France de 1789 à nos jours'', Le Seuil, L'Univers historique, 1990
★ ''La Monarchie impossible'' Fayard 1994
★ ''La Nouvelle Question sociale'', Points, Essais, 1995
★ ''Le Nouvel Âge des inégalités'', (Avec Jean-Paul Fitoussi), Le Seuil, 1996
★ ''Le Peuple introuvable : Histoire de la représentation démocratique en France'', Folio Histoire, 1998
★ ''La Démocratie inachevée. Histoire de la souveraineté du peuple en France,'' Gallimard, Bibliothèque des histoires, 2000, Folio Histoire
extraits déchargables
★ ''Le Sacre du citoyen. Histoire du suffrage universel en France'', Folio Histoire, 2001
★ ''Pour une histoire conceptuelle du politique'', Le Seuil, 2003
★ ''Le Modèle politique français. La société civile contre le jacobinisme de 1789 à nos jours'', Le Seuil, 2004
★ ''La contre-démocratie. La politique à l'âge de la défiance'', Seuil, 2006.
External links
★
Pierre Rosanvallon (articles) on ''
Open Democracy''
★
The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State
★
article on Rosanvallon and
Norberto Bobbio in ''
The Midway Review''