The State And The Rule Of Law Etat Et Les Esclaves. English Project Muse Upcc Books

Blandine Kriegel, at one time a collaborator with Michel Foucault, is one of France's foremost political theorists. This translation of her celebrated work L'Etat et les esclaves makes available for English-speaking readers her impassioned defense of the state. Published in France in 1979 and republished in 1989, this work challenged not only the anti-statism of the 1960s but also generations of romanticism in politics that, in Kriegel's view, inadvertently threatened the cause of liberty by refusing to distinguish between the despotic and the lawful state. In a work that addresses the urgent concerns of Europe and the contemporary world as a whole, Kriegel examines the background of modern liberal democracy in the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and argues cogently for the future of constitutional social-democracy. She maintains, among other positions, that European liberal democracies would have been impossible without the political basis provided by the lawful state first developed by monarchies. She also shows that early modern centralized states became liberal insofar as they developed a centralized legal system, rather than a centralized administration. In developing these ideas, she presents a picture of the state as a major force for human liberty. 000_FrontMatter......Page 1 001_Chapter 1......Page 17 002_Chapter 2......Page 31 003_Chapter 3......Page 49 004_Chapter 4......Page 67 005_Chapter 5......Page 80 006_Chapter 6......Page 107 007_Chapter 7......Page 113 008_Chapter 8......Page 122 009_Chapter 9......Page 128 010_Chapter 10......Page 139 011_Chapter 11......Page 151 012_Chapter 12......Page 160 013_BackMatter......Page 165 Blandine Kriegel, at one time a collaborator with Michel Foucault, is one of France's foremost political theorists. This translation of her work "L' Etat et les esclaves" makes available for English-speaking readers her defence of the state. Blandine Kriegel ; Translated By Marc A. Lepain And Jeffrey C. Cohen ; With A Foreword By Donald R. Kelley. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [153]-170) And Index.