Bertrand De Jouvenel
Biographic Data
| ID | 265238 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bertrand De Jouvenel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bertrand |
| FAMILY NAME | De Jouvenel |
| SIGNATURE | DE JOUVENEL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Futuribles & Faculty of Law, U. of Paris May 10, 1966 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 46 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1947 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Pour une conscience écologique
Sur la mort de mon père
Au Premier Congrès de l'Europe (7 au 10 mai 1948)
L'économie politique de la gratuité (1957)
De l'économie politique à l'écologie politique
On power
Notes inédites
The ethics of redistribution
In this concise and elegant work, first published in 1952, Bertrand de Jouvenel purposely ignores the economic evidence that redistributional efforts sap incentives and are economically destructive. Rather, he stresses the commonly disregarded ethical arguments showing that redistribution is ethically indefensible for, and practically unworkable in, a complex society. A new introduction relates Jouvenel's arguments to current discussions about th…
Journal du pouvoir (1943)
Une dernière image
Pure Politics Revisited
SINCE FIRST I BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF WHAT I called ‘pure politics’ twenty years ago, it has, sad to say, become more immediate. This is because of something I emphasized at the time: the effectiveness of a dedicated group of activists. Although few in number, the group's intensity of will gives it a formidable strength. It is like a projectile which can easily penetrate the soft body of society. It is the generator of the unforeseen,…
Adam Smith et Karl Marx
Que visent les Cubains en Afrique
L'abbé de Pradt et l'Europe constitutionnelle
Les deux crises
La civilisation de puissance
Thinking the Unthinkable
The Art of Conjecture
The Art of Conjecture
Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Art of Conjecture. By Bertrand De Jouvenel. (London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 1967. Pp. xii + 307. Price 50s). C. Blake C. Blake Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 18, Issue 73, October 1968, Pages 379–380, https://doi.org/10.2307/2217818 Published: 01 October 1968
The Study of the Future
The Means of Contestation
Power is potentiality: for those subjected to it, it offers the potential for good and for ill and therefore each and everyone is directly concerned with the way in which power is used. On this account we give the subject the name of citizen; for to do so implies a right to influence the use of power, which is his at least theoretically. But it is a hollow right, without substance, if he cannot use it. It is a hollow right if its only manifestati…
A Letter on Predicting
The Principate
The British Parliament
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Political Science and Prevision
The political scientist is a teacher of public men in the making, and an adviser of public men in activity; "public men," that is, men who are taught, invited or assumed to feel some responsibility for the exercise of political power; "political power," that is, concentrated means of affecting the future.Obviously we can not affect the past, or that present moment which is now passing away, but only what is not yet: the future alone is sensitive …
Sovereignty
The Chairman's Problem
One of the major obstacles to the progress of political theory lies in the fact that people speak of rights without paying attention to the feasibility of their exercise. I propose to raise here some elementary problems relating to the right of speech. It is one of the basic tenets of our democratic political philosophy that all people (over a given age) have an equal right of speech. Making this right operational however gives rise to difficulti…
Political Science and Prevision
The political scientist is a teacher of public men in the making, and an adviser of public men in activity; "public men," that is, men who are taught, invited or assumed to feel some responsibility for the exercise of political power; "political power," that is, concentrated means of affecting the future.Obviously we can not affect the past, or that present moment which is now passing away, but only what is not yet: the future alone is sensitive …
The Means of Contestation
Power is potentiality: for those subjected to it, it offers the potential for good and for ill and therefore each and everyone is directly concerned with the way in which power is used. On this account we give the subject the name of citizen; for to do so implies a right to influence the use of power, which is his at least theoretically. But it is a hollow right, without substance, if he cannot use it. It is a hollow right if its only manifestati…
Rousseau the Pessimistic Evolutionist
The Ethics of Redistribution
Journal Article The Ethics of Redistribution Get access The Ethics of Redistribution. By BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL. (Cambridge University Press, 1951. Pp. ix + 91. 8s. 6d.) David Thomson David Thomson Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 62, Issue 247, 1 September 1952, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.2307/2226924 Published: 01 September 1952
Pure Politics Revisited
SINCE FIRST I BEGAN TO THINK ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF WHAT I called ‘pure politics’ twenty years ago, it has, sad to say, become more immediate. This is because of something I emphasized at the time: the effectiveness of a dedicated group of activists. Although few in number, the group's intensity of will gives it a formidable strength. It is like a projectile which can easily penetrate the soft body of society. It is the generator of the unforeseen,…
L'abbé de Pradt et l'Europe constitutionnelle
La civilisation de puissance
The Art of Conjecture
The Principate
Pour ou contre une politicologie scientifique
Le beau livre de Raymond Aron, Paix et Guerre entre les Nations, intéresse les historiens au premier chef : il leur propose, ni plus ni moins, selon le droit fil de sa longue argumentation, de réintégrer dans les cadres d'une recherche scientifique l'histoire diplomatique et politique, ondoyante, refuge des passions et des jugements gratuits, domaine du descriptif. Car c'est bien là le problème majeur que propose ce livre de bonne foi. Et notre t…
Problems of Socialist England
Journal Article Problems of Socialist England Get access Problems of Socialist England. By Bertrand DE Jouvenel. Translated by J. F. Huntingdon. Foreword by Geoffrey Crowther. (London : The Batchworth Press, 1949. Pp. xvii + 221. 12s. 6d.) J. E. Meade J. E. Meade London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 60, Issue 237, 1 March 1950, Pages 114–117, https://doi.o…
L'Or au temps de Charles-Quint et de Philippe II
Problems of Socialist England
Journal Article Problems of Socialist England Get access Problems of Socialist England. By Bertrand DE Jouvenel. Translated by J. F. Huntingdon. Foreword by Geoffrey Crowther. (London : The Batchworth Press, 1949. Pp. xvii + 221. 12s. 6d.) J. E. Meade J. E. Meade London School of Economics Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 60, Issue 237, 1 March 1950, Pages 114–117, https://doi.o…
L'essence de la politique
De Jouvenel Bertrand. L'essence de la politique. In: Revue française de science politique, 2e année, n°4, 1952. pp. 641-652
The Ethics of Redistribution
Journal Article The Ethics of Redistribution Get access The Ethics of Redistribution. By BERTRAND DE JOUVENEL. (Cambridge University Press, 1951. Pp. ix + 91. 8s. 6d.) David Thomson David Thomson Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 62, Issue 247, 1 September 1952, Pages 655–656, https://doi.org/10.2307/2226924 Published: 01 September 1952
The Ethics of Redistribution
Du groupe
De Jouvenel Bertrand. Du groupe. In: Revue française de science politique, 5e année, n°1, 1955. pp. 49-62
The Mover and the Adjuster
The influence of man on man is exercised sometimes to assemble a group of individuals moved toward common action, sometimes to remedy the antagonisms which naturally result from the conflict of human wills. These two situations give rise to two forms of authority which are seldom found in the same person, since one form is essentially exciting and the other essentially calming. The contrast between them can be illustrated by the two images of the…
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Une representation didactique du probleme de la croissance en equilibre
Rousseau the Pessimistic Evolutionist
Théorie politique pure
De Jouvenel Bertrand. Théorie politique pure. In: Revue française de science politique, 11e année, n°2, 1961. pp. 364-379
Political Configuration and Political Dynamics
Our mind strives for statements of configuration and statements of consequence. Where different things stand in relation to one another, that is configuration. How successive events arise from one another, that is consequence. We grasp far more easily disposition in space than process in time; further an incomplete “geographic” account can be valid as far as it goes while an incomplete “historic” account can be highly misleading. The difference i…
On the Nature of Political Science
Political activity is dangerous. Arising inevitably out of men's ability to influence each other, conferring upon them the benefits of joint endeavour, an indispensable source of social boons, it is also capable of doing great harm. Men can be moved to injure others or to ruin themselves. The very process of moving implies a risk of debasement for the moved and for the mover. Even the fairest vision of a good to be sought offers no moral guarante…
A Better Life in an Affluent Society
Contemporary society is preoccupied with wealth. There is no need here to distinguish between capitalism and communism. It is a well-known fact that the great declared objective of Soviet economic planning is "to attain and to surpass the American standard of life."Every country employs statisticians to compute the annual increase in its national wealth. If the increase is substantial, the government prides itself on it; if it is small, the oppos…
The Chairman's Problem
One of the major obstacles to the progress of political theory lies in the fact that people speak of rights without paying attention to the feasibility of their exercise. I propose to raise here some elementary problems relating to the right of speech. It is one of the basic tenets of our democratic political philosophy that all people (over a given age) have an equal right of speech. Making this right operational however gives rise to difficulti…
The Team Against the Committee
A certain small group of men (hereafter called “the team”) shares an intention, the implementation of which requires at least a once-for-all decision of some public authority. The most obvious procedure is to plead in favor of that decision with the holders (or holder) of the competent authority. The next most obvious is to win over people who have easy and habitual access to the decision-maker or makers. These first and second procedures can be …
Pour ou contre une politicologie scientifique
Le beau livre de Raymond Aron, Paix et Guerre entre les Nations, intéresse les historiens au premier chef : il leur propose, ni plus ni moins, selon le droit fil de sa longue argumentation, de réintégrer dans les cadres d'une recherche scientifique l'histoire diplomatique et politique, ondoyante, refuge des passions et des jugements gratuits, domaine du descriptif. Car c'est bien là le problème majeur que propose ce livre de bonne foi. Et notre t…
The Pure Theory of Politics
Du Principat
De Jouvenel Bertrand. Du Principat. In: Revue française de science politique, 14e année, n°6, 1964. pp. 1053-1086
The Principate
The British Parliament
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Political Science and Prevision
The political scientist is a teacher of public men in the making, and an adviser of public men in activity; "public men," that is, men who are taught, invited or assumed to feel some responsibility for the exercise of political power; "political power," that is, concentrated means of affecting the future.Obviously we can not affect the past, or that present moment which is now passing away, but only what is not yet: the future alone is sensitive …
The Means of Contestation
Power is potentiality: for those subjected to it, it offers the potential for good and for ill and therefore each and everyone is directly concerned with the way in which power is used. On this account we give the subject the name of citizen; for to do so implies a right to influence the use of power, which is his at least theoretically. But it is a hollow right, without substance, if he cannot use it. It is a hollow right if its only manifestati…
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