Arthur Goldhammer
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 192251 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arthur Goldhammer |
| NOMBRES | Arthur |
| APELLIDO | Goldhammer |
| FIRMA | GOLDHAMMER A |
| AFILIACIONES | Collège de France |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 90 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 198 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Toward a Declaration of European Independence
The Trump administration’s open and aggressive hostility toward Europe has led European leaders to undertake an urgent reassessment of their defense and security posture. In Germany, following Bundestag elections in February, the parties that will form the new government agreed to carve out an exemption from the “debt brake” to accommodate substantial new spending on the military and infrastructure. European Commission President Ursula von der Le…
The State of Europe, 2024
Europe in 2024 faces major challenges in the areas of security, immigration, the economy, and the environment. The war in Ukraine and the uncertain direction of the foreign policy of the United States signal that the European Union is about to embark upon a new historical era. Meanwhile, nationalist feeling is increasing in most member states, as political party systems shift rightward in response to populist pressures. The paper analyzes these c…
French Studies and the Anglophone Reading Public
What is the audience for French Studies in the Anglophone world? Who is interested in reading about France, and what kinds of books, essays, and articles arouse their curiosity
The Democracy of the Spectacle
Tocqueville envisioned any number of ways in which democracy might succumb to tyranny and sought to imagine social processes and institutions that might mitigate this threat. Among these was participation in local government, which he saw as a way of teaching humility and moderating political passions with the potential to undermine democracy. But the importance of local government has diminished as the scale of democratic polities has increased …
Discovery of the Source of a Text Tocqueville Cited in Democracy in America
Tocqueville’s Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings
Tocqueville’s first and second memoirs on pauperism are published here in English translation by Christine Dunn Henderson. The text includes the first English translation of the second memoir. In addition, two brief notes on pauperism in Normandy and in the United States are also included
Capital and Ideology
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century showed that capitalism, left to itself, generates deepening inequality. In this audacious follow-up, he challenges us to revolutionize how we think about ideology and history, exposing the ideas that have sustained inequality since premodern times and outlining a fairer economic system
Capital in the Twenty-First Century
After Piketty
Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century is the most widely discussed work of economics in recent history, selling millions of copies in dozens of languages. But are its analyses of inequality and economic growth on target? Where should researchers go from here in exploring the ideas Piketty pushed to the forefront of global conversation? A cast of economists and other social scientists tackle these questions in dialogue with Piketty,…
An American looks at Europe, March 2017
This speculative essay considers, from an American perspective, the state of Europe in late March 2017. With the United States seeming to distance itself from Europe both militarily and economically in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, the EU finds itself facing new challenges. Will member states seek closer cooperation on border and security matters owing to their inability to make further progress toward economic integration? Will popul…
Stanley Hoffmann. In memoriam
Stanley Hoffmann, the Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor emeritus at Harvard, died at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on September 12 after a long illness. In his fifty-eight years on the Harvard faculty, he introduced hundreds of students to the study of French and European politics and international relations. François Furet called him “one of the great professors of the twentieth century.”
Explaining the Rise of the Front national
Laurent Bouvet, L'Insécurité culturelle (Paris: Fayard, 2015).Cécile Alduy and Stéphane Wahnich, Marine Le Pen prise aux mots: Décryptage du nouveau discours frontiste
François Furet
François Furet: A melancholy revisionist? Arthur Goldhammer (bio) Review of Chirstophe Prochasson , François Furet : Les chemins de la mélancolie. Paris : Stock , 2013 . 558 p. When asked to write an intellectual biography of François Furet, Christophe Prochasson surely knew he faced a daunting task. Twenty-five years ago, as France celebrated the Bicentennial of the French Revolution and communist domination of Eastern Europe crumbled, Furet’s r…
A Few Thoughts on the Future of French Studies
Algerian Chronicles
Empire's Children
The Legitimacy of Identification with Generality
This chapter turns to an approach that was at once more modest and more effective in countering the dysfunctions of the electoral-representative system and its unrequited need for legitimacy than the concept of unanimity—the bureaucracy. The idea of the bureaucracy was to create an institution capable of embodying the general interest. Thus, the chapter traces the development of the government bureaucracy through the emergence of a corporatism of…
Attention to Particularity
This chapter investigates the changing relationships between the citizenry and their government. As new democratic institutions are being developed, citizens are becoming increasingly aware of the way in which they are governed: in short, they want to be listened to and reckoned with. They want their views to be taken into account. They expect the government to be attentive to their problems and to show genuine concern with their everyday experie…
The Politics of Presence
This chapter explores a new politics of presence, which takes on a variety of forms. For society itself presence is a new way of understanding what belongs to the realm of the political. It has also given rise to a “new militancy of presence,” the role of which has grown as traditional representative organizations have declined. Charitable organizations long served to “educate the social gaze,” but in recent years many other groups have begun to …
The Democracy of Impartiality
This chapter asks whether independent authorities are representative in character, whether society can exert control over them, and whether they meet standards of establishment and accountability. It also considers what type of generality these independent bodies implement. These authorities are, after all, created by law and consequently enjoy what might be called a derivative legitimacy. But that legitimacy does not flow directly from the citiz…
The Institutions of Reflexivity
This chapter turns to the increasingly active role of constitutional courts. These courts have established themselves—not without reservations and challenges—as an essential vector of the push for greater reflexivity. For a long time the United States, India, and the German Federal Republic stood out as exceptions because of their traditional emphasis on judicial review. Now, however, constitutional courts of one sort or another are at the heart …
The Legitimacy of Establishment
This chapter argues that, in order to fully understand the significance of electoral legitimation, one has to study the way in which the individualistic legal requirement is embedded in a holistic vision—a vision that treats unanimity as an intrinsic moral, social, and political value. Democratic regimes had eventually adopted the principle of majority rule as a practical procedural necessity, since numerical unanimity was virtually impossible to…
The Democracy of Appropriation
This concluding chapter discusses recent developments in democratic legitimacy. It first examines the changing democratic ideals, which have since moved from a democracy of identification to a democracy of appropriation. The main aspects of a democracy of appropriation are: the role of distrust, the agencies of indirect democracy, and the insistence that leaders conduct themselves democratically constrains their actions in ways independent of the…
Interactive Democracy
This chapter explores recent practices of participatory democracy. A government is said to be close to its citizens if it does not stand on ceremony, if it is prepared to step down from its pedestal to confront criticism directly and engage in debate or seek outside opinions—in other words, if it recognizes that formal institutions are not enough and that it must seek to establish more flexible and direct relations with the people. Since the 1990…
The Great Transformation
This chapter describes the dawn of a new “age of particularity” which has changed what citizens expect from politics and fostered the emergence of new democratic institutions. More specifically, the chapter looks at the 1980 collapse of dual legitimacy, upon which democratic institutions had depended up until that point, as well as the social, political, and economic changes that emerged from and also helped to facilitate the aforementioned colla…
Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages
Democratic Legitimacy
It's a commonplace occurrence that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. But this book argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding. The book makes the case that the sources of democratic legitimacy have shifted and multiplied over the past thirty years and that we need to comprehend and make better use of these new sources of legitimacy i…
Stabat Mater
Algerian Chronicles
Paris
1. A City of Myths 2. Capital of the Modern Self 3. Capital of Revolution 4. Mysterious Capital of Crime 5. Negative Myths of La Parisienne 6. Capital of Science 7. Reading the Parisian Myths 8. The Urban Machine 9. Capital of Alienation 10. Paris in the World 11. Three Literary Visions 12. Capital of Pleasure 13. The American Imagination 14. From Myth to Phantasmagoria 15. The Surrealists' Quest 16. Capital of Art 17. A Universal City
Understanding Imperial Russia
Examines Russian history from the early eighteenth century until the Revolution, discusses the causes of the czars' decline, and describes the social and political forces in czarist Russia
Translating Tocqueville
Nearly everyone will grant that Tocqueville's Democracy in America deserves to be called a "classic." Does the work's classic status constrain its translator? Should it? And if so how? These are the questions I want to address
A History of Women. I. From Ancient Goddesses to Christian Saints
Metropolis
Research Article| December 01 1986 Metropolis: Mother-City—"Mittler"—Hitler Roger Dadoun; Roger Dadoun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Arthur Goldhammer Arthur Goldhammer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 137–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-137 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
The Sociology of Talcott Parsons
A History of Private Life
The Making of a Class
The Games of Life
The Three Orders
Strategies for Change
Aliens and Alienists
Medieval Slavery and Liberation
Time, Work, and Culture in the Middle Ages
The Sociology of the State
Too often we think of the modern political state as a universal institution, the inevitable product of History rather than a specific creation of a very particular history. Bertrand Badie and Pierre Birnbaum here persuasively argue that the origin of the state is a social fact, arising out of the peculiar sociohistorical context of Western Europe. Drawing on historical materials and bringing sociological insights to bear on a field long abandoned…
The Heights of Power
The Sociology of Talcott Parsons
The Institutions of France Under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789. Volume II
The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789, Vol. II
How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
Understanding Imperial Russia
Examines Russian history from the early eighteenth century until the Revolution, discusses the causes of the czars' decline, and describes the social and political forces in czarist Russia
The Institutions of France under the Absolute Monarchy, 1598-1789. II
Stabat Mater
The Politics of Women's Bodies Reflections on Plato
children but taking no part in preparations for war, that is, in politics in the broad sense, in debate over public issues. I can only speak as I think. A legislator should be thorough, not halfhearted; he must not, after making regulations for the male sex, leave the other to the enjoyment of an existence of uncontrolled luxury and expense, and so endow his society with a mere half of a thoroughly felicitous life in place of the whole
Jewish Identities in France
Metropolis
Research Article| December 01 1986 Metropolis: Mother-City—"Mittler"—Hitler Roger Dadoun; Roger Dadoun Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Arthur Goldhammer Arthur Goldhammer Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Camera Obscura (1986) 5 (3 (15)): 137–164. https://doi.org/10.1215/02705346-5-3_15-137 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon S…
A History of Private Life II
In the Beginning Was Love
Disease and Civilization
A History of Private Life
The Making of a Class
Tocqueville and the Two Democracies
In Search of the Elusive Cadre
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