Sublime

The one – major – difference between them is that Rousseau, unlike Kandiaronk, cannot really envisage society being based on anything else.

By the mid seventeenth century, legal and political thinkers in Europe were beginning to toy with the idea of an egalitarian State of Nature;

En octobre 2014, sur la scène de la conférence Ted, à Rio de Janeiro, l’activiste argentine Pia Mancini faisait un constat éloquent : « Nous sommes des citoyens du XXIe siècle, qui faisons de notre mieux pour nous débrouiller avec des institutions conçues au XIXe siècle, et fondées sur une technologie du XVe siècle [l’imprimerie]2. » Quand la plupa

Many conservative thinkers see Rousseau as having gone full circle from a promising start to creating what we now think of as the political left.

Unlike all earlier Roman reformers, Gaius sponsored not just a single initiative but a dozen or so. He was the first politician in the city, leaving aside the mythical founding fathers, to have an extensive and coherent programme, with measures that covered such things as the right of appeal against the death penalty, the outlawing of bribery and a

Rosanvallon traces the roots of counter-democracy back to the French Revolution, when citizens, after achieving the end of the monarchy, held their new government accountable through oversight (surveillance) of elected officials, mobilization to protest poor decisions, and sitting in judgment over officials accused of corruption or other crimes.

Le libéralisme aristocratique représenté en France par les parlements se répand largement en Europe, et en particulier en Europe centre-orientale.