The Third Republic of France was characterized by weak and short-term
governments. This book is a study of three writers, Georges Sorel,
Maurice Barres, and Charles Maurras, their writings in the years
between 1885 and 1914, and their reactions to the deficiencies they
saw in the Third Republic and in the system of French democracy. The
study begins in 1885 with the appearance of certain new political
factors. It ends in 1914 because the three writers had by this time
completed their original contributions to the thought of the country,
even if not their total impact on France.A relative position of each
of these figures in the French political spectrum is deduced from a
combination of attitudes toward a number of issues. These include the
extent of economic and social reform, centralization of the power of
the state, the nature of the parliamentary system, the desirability of
political parties, the relation of Church and State, the
responsibility of authority, the use of force or coercion, and
national power versus international collaboration. Their views span
the political spectrum.Sorel, Barres, and Maurras are important not
only because they provided the chief ideological weapons for the
attack on the regime but also, in a wider context, because they
contribute significantly to understanding of a later period of
European political history. In their contemporary significance, all
three illustrated the various attitudes of the conservative, the
.reactionary, and the moralist. The names and parties may have changed
but the same ideas continue to impact French politics and western
ideology today. This is a key book for an epoch whose importance
lingers in current discourse.
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ISBN
9781351471909
Publisert
2017
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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