French Political Thought after 1945

2016
Le retour des droits de l'homme
Moyn, Samuel. “Le retour des droits de l'homme.” In La vie intellectuelle en France, edited by Christophe Charle and Laurent Jeanpierre, 2:680-86. Paris: Seuil, 2016. Publisher's Version
2015
"De l'eau à la rivière": la réception anglo-américaine de l'oeuvre de P. Rosanvallon
Moyn, Samuel. “"De l'eau à la rivière": la réception anglo-américaine de l'oeuvre de P. Rosanvallon.” In La démocratie à l'oeuvre: Autour de Pierre Rosanvallon, edited by Sarah Al-Matary and Florent Guénard, 65-77. Paris: Seuil, 2015. Publisher's Version
Unfinished Arguments
Moyn, Samuel. “Unfinished Arguments.” New York Times Book Review, 2015. Publisher's Version
Fantasies of Federalism
Moyn, Samuel. “Fantasies of Federalism.” Dissent, 2015. Publisher's Version
2014
Imaginary Intellectual History
Moyn, Samuel. “Imaginary Intellectual History.” In Rethinking Modern European Intellectual History, edited by Darrin M McMahon and Samuel Moyn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. Publisher's Version
2013
Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division
Moyn, Samuel. “Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division.” In Claude Lefort: Thinker of the Political, edited by Martín Plot. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Publisher's Version
2012
Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division
Moyn, Samuel. “Claude Lefort, Political Anthropology, and Symbolic Division.” Constellations 19, no. 1 (2012): 37-50. Publisher's Version
Intellectuals and Nazism
Moyn, Samuel. “Intellectuals and Nazism.” In Oxford Handbook to Postwar European History, edited by Dan Stone. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Publisher's Version
The Politics of Individual Rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort
Moyn, Samuel. “The Politics of Individual Rights: Marcel Gauchet and Claude Lefort.” In French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day, edited by Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, 291-310. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. Publisher's Version
2011
Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights
Moyn, Samuel. “Personalism, Community, and the Origins of Human Rights.” In Human Rights in the Twentieth Century, edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann, 85-106. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Publisher's Version
2010
Personalismus, Gemeinschaft, und die Ursprünge der Menschenrechte
Moyn, Samuel. “Personalismus, Gemeinschaft, und die Ursprünge der Menschenrechte.” In ., Moralpolitik: Geschichte der Menschenrechte im 20. Jahrhundert, edited by Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2010. Publisher's Version
2009
Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and the Rise of Holocaust Memory
Moyn, Samuel. “Antisemitism, Philosemitism, and the Rise of Holocaust Memory.” Patterns of Prejudice 43, no. 1 (2009): 1-16. Publisher's Version
   The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self
Moyn, Samuel. “ The Assumption by Man of His Original Fracturing: Marcel Gauchet, Gladys Swain, and the History of the Self.” Modern Intellectual History 6, no. 2 (2009): 315-41. Publisher's Version
2008
On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet's Masterpiece
Moyn, Samuel. “On the Intellectual Origins of François Furet's Masterpiece.” Tocqueville Review 29, no. 2 (2008): 59-78. Publisher's Version
   Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality
Moyn, Samuel. “ Marxism and Alterity: Claude Lefort and the Critique of Totality.” In The Modernist Imagination: Intellectual History and Critical Theory, edited by Warren Breckman, Peter E Gordon, Dirk A Moses, Samuel Moyn, and Eliott Neaman. New York: Berghahn Books, 2008. Publisher's Version
2006
Democracy Past and Future
Rosanvallon, Pierre. Democracy Past and Future. Edited by Samuel Moyn. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Publisher's VersionAbstract

Democracy Past and Future is the first English-language collection of Pierre Rosanvallon's most important essays on the historical origins, contemporary difficulties, and future prospects of democratic life.

One of Europe's leading political thinkers, Rosanvallon proposes in these essays new readings of the history, aims, and possibilities of democratic theory and practice, and provides unique theoretical understandings of key moments in democracy's trajectory, from the French Revolution and the struggles for universal suffrage to European unification and the crises of the present. In so doing, he lays out an influential new theory of how to write the history of politics. Rosanvallon's historical and philosophical approach examines the "pathologies" that have curtailed democracy's potential and challenges the antitotalitarian liberalism that has dominated recent political thought. All in all, he adroitly combines historical and theoretical analysis with an insistence on the need for a new form of democracy. Above all, he asks what democracy means when the people rule but are nowhere to be found.

Throughout his career, Rosanvallon has resisted simple categorization. Rosanvallon was originally known as a primary theorist of the "second left", which hoped to stake out a non-Marxist progressive alternative to the irresistible appeal of revolutionary politics. In fact, Rosanvallon revived the theory of "civil society" even before its usage by East European dissidents made it globally popular as a non-statist politics of freedom and pluralism. His ideas have been shaped by a variety of influences, ranging from his work with an influential French union to his teachers François Furet and Claude Lefort.

Well known throughout Europe as a historian, political theorist, social critic, and public intellectual, Pierre Rosanvallon was recently elected to a professorship at the Collège de France, Paris, a position held at various times by Claude Lévi-Strauss, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu. Democracy Past and Future begins with Rosanvallon's groundbreaking and synthetic lecture that he delivered upon joining this institution. Throughout the volume, Rosanvallon illuminates and invigorates contemporary political and democratic thought.