« Esprit public » et capacité de juger

La stabilisation d’un espace public en France aux lendemains de la Révolution

Bibliographic Data

ID20074716
AuthorsAlain Cottereau (École des hautes études en sciences sociales, corresponding author)
Year1992
Pages239-272
Publication date1992-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenuePouvoir et légitimité (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherÉditions de l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/books.editionsehess.9799
OpenAlexW3039741741
ISBN9782713230813
LanguageCA
Citations received19
References cited13

The author analyzes various aspects of the post-revolutionary stabilisation of the french society, from the point of view of the constitution of a public space, after the Terror. Contrary to the escalation of suspicion, the french political cultures learn to manage a frontier between what has to be concealed and what has to be revealed. Conditions of a democratic publicity are thereby defined, included in the practical ideals of citizens. These conditions are based on the complementarity of a «negative» and a «positive» public space. Beyond the antidemocratic aspects and the censures of the public opinion, local public spaces, as places of citizens’ initiatives and responsibilities, are maintained alive, which may be rediscovered through the demands for legitimation of the leading personalities and the local jurisprudential functioning

Constitution · Democracy · Frontier · Law and economics · Legitimation · Political science · Politics · Public opinion · Public space · Publicity · Sociology · Engineering · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy · Public Administration