Dominique Schnapper is a sociologist and professor at the School of Higher Social Science Studies. She was a member of the French Supreme Court from 2001 to 2010 and has devoted much of her work to reflections on citizenship and social integration, in particular that of Jews in French society, and to the transformations of contemporary democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface by Mark LillaIntroduction"Well-Regulated" Democracy versus "Extreme"DemocracyThe Two CritiquesA Sociological ProjectRisks of Deviation and "Corruption"1 The Temptation of the UnlimitedFrom Autonomy to the Rejection of All DependenceAutonomy and IndependenceAutonomy and Collective ConstraintsFrom Citizenship to Democracy of the IntimateThe ExtensionInternalizationFrom Scientific Progress to the World Without LimitsThe Illusion of OmnipotenceTime's Discordance2 From Liberty to LicenseThe Critical Relationship Toward InstitutionsContestationFrom Marriage to PACS and Back Again"Free" ChoicesDifficult TransmissionThe Child and the School: Between the Republic and BusinessThe Museum as a Cultural EnterpriseRepresentation in Crisis?To Bypass or To Complement?The Dream of Ultra-DemocracyDisintegration of Republican TranscendenceReturn through Technology?3 From Equality to IndistinctionIndistinction of OrdersSeparation of the Political and of the Ethno-ReligiousFrom Autonomy to Confusion?The Rejection of BoundariesIndistinction of PersonsThe Utopia of Generalized ExchangesThe Pure and the ImpureAnimal and HumanIndistinction of ValuesFrom Relative Relativism to Absolute RelativismDemocratic Tolerance4 Criticism of CriticismThe Achievements of the Republican PromiseMore FreedomMore ToleranceRicher and Less UnequalSociety of HumiliationIntegration through Individualism?Face Up to FailureLess Poor and More HumiliatedConclusionHistoric DestiniesIts Own Worst Enemy?BibliographyIndex

Dominique Schnapper is a sociologist and professor at the School of Higher Social Science Studies. She was a member of the French Supreme Court from 2001 to 2010 and has devoted much of her work to reflections on citizenship and social integration, in particular that of Jews in French society, and to the transformations of contemporary democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface by Mark LillaIntroduction"Well-Regulated" Democracy versus "Extreme"DemocracyThe Two CritiquesA Sociological ProjectRisks of Deviation and "Corruption"1 The Temptation of the UnlimitedFrom Autonomy to the Rejection of All DependenceAutonomy and IndependenceAutonomy and Collective ConstraintsFrom Citizenship to Democracy of the IntimateThe ExtensionInternalizationFrom Scientific Progress to the World Without LimitsThe Illusion of OmnipotenceTime's Discordance2 From Liberty to LicenseThe Critical Relationship Toward InstitutionsContestationFrom Marriage to PACS and Back Again"Free" ChoicesDifficult TransmissionThe Child and the School: Between the Republic and BusinessThe Museum as a Cultural EnterpriseRepresentation in Crisis?To Bypass or To Complement?The Dream of Ultra-DemocracyDisintegration of Republican TranscendenceReturn through Technology?3 From Equality to IndistinctionIndistinction of OrdersSeparation of the Political and of the Ethno-ReligiousFrom Autonomy to Confusion?The Rejection of BoundariesIndistinction of PersonsThe Utopia of Generalized ExchangesThe Pure and the ImpureAnimal and HumanIndistinction of ValuesFrom Relative Relativism to Absolute RelativismDemocratic Tolerance4 Criticism of CriticismThe Achievements of the Republican PromiseMore FreedomMore ToleranceRicher and Less UnequalSociety of HumiliationIntegration through Individualism?Face Up to FailureLess Poor and More HumiliatedConclusionHistoric DestiniesIts Own Worst Enemy?BibliographyIndex

Dominique Schnapper is a sociologist and professor at the School of Higher Social Science Studies. She was a member of the French Supreme Court from 2001 to 2010 and has devoted much of her work to reflections on citizenship and social integration, in particular that of Jews in French society, and to the transformations of contemporary democracy.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface by Mark LillaIntroduction"Well-Regulated" Democracy versus "Extreme"DemocracyThe Two CritiquesA Sociological ProjectRisks of Deviation and "Corruption"1 The Temptation of the UnlimitedFrom Autonomy to the Rejection of All DependenceAutonomy and IndependenceAutonomy and Collective ConstraintsFrom Citizenship to Democracy of the IntimateThe ExtensionInternalizationFrom Scientific Progress to the World Without LimitsThe Illusion of OmnipotenceTime's Discordance2 From Liberty to LicenseThe Critical Relationship Toward InstitutionsContestationFrom Marriage to PACS and Back Again"Free" ChoicesDifficult TransmissionThe Child and the School: Between the Republic and BusinessThe Museum as a Cultural EnterpriseRepresentation in Crisis?To Bypass or To Complement?The Dream of Ultra-DemocracyDisintegration of Republican TranscendenceReturn through Technology?3 From Equality to IndistinctionIndistinction of OrdersSeparation of the Political and of the Ethno-ReligiousFrom Autonomy to Confusion?The Rejection of BoundariesIndistinction of PersonsThe Utopia of Generalized ExchangesThe Pure and the ImpureAnimal and HumanIndistinction of ValuesFrom Relative Relativism to Absolute RelativismDemocratic Tolerance4 Criticism of CriticismThe Achievements of the Republican PromiseMore FreedomMore ToleranceRicher and Less UnequalSociety of HumiliationIntegration through Individualism?Face Up to FailureLess Poor and More HumiliatedConclusionHistoric DestiniesIts Own Worst Enemy?BibliographyIndex