The People's Two Powers by Arthur Ghins
The People's Two Powers revisits the emergence of democracy during the French Revolution and examines how French liberalism evolved in response. By focusing on two concepts often studied separately - public opinion and popular sovereignty - Arthur Ghins uncovers a significant historical shift in the understanding of democracy. Initially tied to the direct exercise of popular sovereignty by Rousseau, Condorcet, the Montagnards, and Bonapartist theorists, democracy was first rejected, then redefined by liberals as rule by public opinion throughout the nineteenth century. This redefinition culminated in the invention of the term 'liberal democracy' in France in the 1860s. Originally conceived in opposition to 'Caesarism' during the Second Empire, the term has an ongoing and important legacy, and was later redeployed by French liberals against shifting adversaries - 'totalitarianism' from the 1930s onward, and 'populism' since the 1980s.-
That Noble Dream
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The Taming of Chance
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Faces of Degeneration
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Between Literature and Science
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Political Innovation and Conceptual Change
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Measurement in Psychology
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Toleration in Conflict
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The Hidden Origins of the German Enlightenment
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Adam Smith and the Circles of Sympathy
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Ancient Wisdom in the Age of the New Science
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Sovereignty, Property and Empire, 15002000
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Pluralism and the Personality of the State
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The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics
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Riches and Poverty
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Public Philosophy in a New Key: Volume 2, Imperialism and Civic Freedom
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Philosophy in History
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The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought
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Enlightenment and Religion
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The Idea of Luxury
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The Persistence of Party
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The Languages of Political Theory in Early-Modern Europe
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Irish Political Thought and the Union
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The State in Machiavelli
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Language and Civil Conflict in the Greco-Roman Tradition
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The English Republican Exiles in Europe during the Restoration
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The History of the Arthasastra
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The Young Derrida and French Philosophy, 19451968
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Revolutionary Thought after the Paris Commune, 1871-1885
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The History of Political Thought in National Context
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Recovering Liberties
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Liberty Abroad
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Parliament the Mirror of the Nation
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The Emergence of Modern Aesthetic Theory
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The Crisis of German Historicism
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The Scottish Enlightenment and the French Revolution
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Italian Renaissance Humanism in the Mirror
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The Constitutionalist Revolution
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Parliamentarism
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Radical Democracy in Modern Indian Political Thought
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Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814-1851
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Liberal Values
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Max Weber in Politics and Social Thought
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The Duel in Early Modern England
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Utilitarianism and the New Liberalism
Arthur Ghins is a postdoctoral researcher at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has taught at Brown University and Yale University, and has held a British Academy Fellowship at King's College London. His work on historical and contemporary debates about democracy and liberalism has appeared in various intellectual history, political theory, and political science journals.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009688826 |
| Title | The People's Two Powers |
| Author | Arthur Ghins |
| Series | Ideas In Context |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Year published | 2026-01-31 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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