In Search of the Liberal Moment

1. Introduction: New Perspectives on France’s “Liberal Moment”
Stephen W. Sawyer, Iain Stewart

2. Taking Anti-totalitarianism Seriously: The Emergence of the Aronian Circle in the 1970s
Gwendal Châton

3. Plettenburg not Paris: Julien Freund, the New Right, and France’s Liberal Moment
Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

4. Rethinking the French Liberal Moment: Some Thoughts on the Heterogeneous Origins of Lefort and Gauchet’s Social Philosophy
Noah Rosenblum

5. “The Best Help I Could Find to Understand Our Present”: François Furet’s Antirevolutionary Reading of Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Michael Scott Christofferson

6. On the Supposed Illiberalism of Republican Political Culture in France
Jean-Fabien Spitz

7. Capitalism and Its Critics: Antiliberalism in Contemporary French Politics
Emile Chabal

8. Foucault and France’s Liberal Moment
Michael C. Behrent

9. The French Reception of American Neoliberalism in the Late 1970s
Serge Audier

10. Epilogue: Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Democratic Theory
Stephen W. Sawyer

Keywords: Science, Science, general