by Alain Touraine · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782213592015
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«Qu'est-ce-que la démocratie?» is Alain Touraine's essay on political philosophy, published by Fayard in paperback (297 pages, in French).
Starts from the double rejection of the arrogant mobilizing state and the face-to-face between market and tribes. Proposes a democracy that is not just protection against authoritarian power: it must combine majority and minorities, integrate immigrants, open politics to women, and unite equality of rights with diversity of convictions.
Published in 1994, the book includes bibliographical references (pp. 279-288) and indexes; it continues the reflection begun in Critique de la modernité.
Readers interested in political philosophy, sociology, and democratic theory, as well as in the thought of Alain Touraine.
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Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland.
