Right and Left: History and Destiny
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Right and Left: History and Destiny
9.99 €
The tripartite party structure of “right” – “center” – “left” invented in France has become one of the most important concepts of the universal language of modern politics. Why has this particular model become the most convenient way to navigate the diversity of ideologies, interests and concepts in mass representative democracies?
Marcel Gauchet’s book is an attempt to reconstruct the tradition of using these terms, as well as to take a fresh look at French and Western political history as a whole. The author shows how the tripartite model is connected with ideas about historical dynamics and progress, how important is the integrating function of the division into left and right, understood as parts of a single whole. At the center of the study is the main question: does this structure retain its meaning of existence in the conditions of upheavals that our societies are experiencing, or does it belong to an era that is coming to an end?
Marcel Gauchet’s book is an attempt to reconstruct the tradition of using these terms, as well as to take a fresh look at French and Western political history as a whole. The author shows how the tripartite model is connected with ideas about historical dynamics and progress, how important is the integrating function of the division into left and right, understood as parts of a single whole. At the center of the study is the main question: does this structure retain its meaning of existence in the conditions of upheavals that our societies are experiencing, or does it belong to an era that is coming to an end?
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