Renan / Giglioli What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-0-231-54714-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten

Reihe: Columbia Studies in Political Thought / Political History

What Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings is the first English-language anthology of Ernest Renan’s political thought. It offers a wide selection of Renan’s writings, most previously untranslated. It restores Renan to his place as one of France’s major liberal thinkers and gives vital critical context to his views on nationalism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Renan, Ernest

Giglioli, M. F. N.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Howard, Dick

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Series Editor’s Foreword
Introduction
Chronology
1. On Clerical Liberalism (Du libéralisme clérical, 1848)
2. Mr. de Sacy and the Liberal Tradition (M. de Sacy et l’école libérale, 1858)
3. The Philosophy of Contemporary History (Philosophie de l’histoire contemporaine, 1859)
4. The Role of the Family and the State in Education (La part de la famille et de l’État dans l’Éducation, 1869)
5. Constitutional Monarchy in France (La Monarchie constitutionnelle en France, 1869)
6. The War between France and Germany (La Guerre entre la France et l’Allemagne, 1870)
7. Two Letters to Mr. Strauss (Lettre & Nouvelle lettre à M. Strauss, 1870-1871)
8. Intellectual and Moral Reform of France (La Réforme intellectuelle et morale de la France, 1871)
9. What Is a Nation? (Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?, 1882)
10. Islam and Science (L’Islamisme et la science, 1883)
11. Original Unity and Gradual Separation of Judaism and Christianity (Identité originelle et séparation graduelle du judaïsme et du christianisme, 1883)
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Renan Ernest:
Joseph Ernest Renan (1823–1892) was a French expert of Middle Eastern ancient languages and civilizations, philosopher, and writer. He is best known for his influential historical works on early Christianity and his political theories, especially concerning nationalism and national identity.Giglioli M. F. N.:
Matteo Fabio Nels Giglioli (PhD, Politics, Princeton) is a Research Fellow in the Department of Political and Social Science at the University of Bologna. He is the author of Legitimacy and Revolution in a Society of Masses: Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-de-Siècle Debate on Social Order (Routledge, 2013).Howard Dick:
Dick Howard (PhD, Philosophy, Texas) is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at SUNY Stony Brook. He is the author of Between Politics and Antipolitics: Thinking About Politics After 9/11 (Palgrave, 2016), The Primacy of the Political: A History of Political Thought from the Greeks to the American and French Revolutions (Columbia, 2010), and The Specter of Democracy (Columbia, 2006), among other titles. He is also a columnist for Le Monde on the American political scene. I chose him as a reader for his expertise in political theory and philosophy.Ernest Renan (1823–1892) was a French scholar of the Ancient Near East and early Christianity, best known for The Life of Jesus (1862), an international best seller, and his views on national identity.

M. F. N. Giglioli is a research fellow in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Bologna. He is the author of Legitimacy and Revolution in a Society of Masses: Max Weber, Antonio Gramsci, and the Fin-de-Siècle Debate on Social Order (2013).