Shades of Indignation

Political Scandals in France, Past and Present
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-84545-365-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 236 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 501 g

Reihe: Berghahn Monographs in French Studies

At the end of the twentieth century France found itself in the midst of another scandalous fin de siècle, awash with rumors and revelations of wrongdoing in high places. As the millennium expired, the Republic’s servants, some sitting, others retired, received much condemnation, whether welcomed or resented. When taken together, surely les affaires now approximate in political significance (if not in noise or invective) those of the Dreyfus or Panama scandals a century ago? Yet the author argues this is not so. Today, treason has vanished and is slowly giving way to a transgression different in kind, but equivalent in gravamen: the crime against humanity. Corruption is far from disappearing, yet now it inspires resignation rather than indignation - and as such, it has lost its power to scandalize. Jankowski claims that such transformations tell a tale. The state that once aspired to pre-eminence as the sole magnet of loyalty, touchstone of probity, and guarantor of right, has yielded significant ground to the individual who is now more likely to elevate his own dignity and cry scandal on his own behalf. [In these times,] Individualism is de-politicizing the group and [ultimately] diluting the mystique of France, the nation-state par excellence.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jankowski, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 1. Treason

Treubruch

Lese-majeste

Lese-nation

Crimes against humanity

Notes

Chapter 2. Corruption

Avarice

Peculat

Corruption

Les Affairs

Notes

Chapter 3. Injustice

Equity and monarchy

Equity and nation

Equity and democracy

Equity and the individual

Chapter 4. Conclusion

Notes

Appendix of scandals

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jankowski, Paul
Currently Ray Ginger Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Brandeis University, Paul Jankowski is the author of Communism and Collaboration. Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 and of Stavisky. A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. He was educated in Geneva, New York, and Balliol College, Oxford.

Currently Ray Ginger Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Brandeis University, Paul Jankowski is the author of Communism and Collaboration. Simon Sabiani and Politics in Marseille, 1919-1944 and of Stavisky. A Confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue. He was educated in Geneva, New York, and Balliol College, Oxford.