{"product_id":"what-is-a-nation-and-other-political-writings-9780231174305","title":"What Is a Nation and Other Political Writings","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings\u003c\/i\u003e is the first English-language anthology of Ernest Renan’s political thought. It offers a wide selection of Renan’s writings, most previously untranslated. It restores Renan to his place as one of France’s major liberal thinkers and gives vital critical context to his views on nationalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis wonderfully translated and edited collection offers a welcome opportunity to reassess the political writings of Ernest Renan. M.F.N. Giglioli’s judicious selection of essays allows readers to explore how this influential nineteenth-century liberal understood the major challenges of his day: empire, religion, education, and liberty. A principled mind in an era of revolutionaries and demagogues, Renan inspires reflection on the place of intellectual and political engagement in turbulent times. -- J.P. Daughton, Stanford University\u003cbr\u003eThis welcome volume makes the political thought of a major figure in the liberal tradition accessible to English readers for the first time. Setting Renan's famous lecture 'What Is a Nation?' alongside a series of previously untranslated essays on diverse subjects from Islamic science to the future of Europe to the nature of historical causation, the volume shows Renan grappling with the many legacies of the French Revolution for the modern world. Giglioli's translations are lucid, reliable, and a pleasure to read. His informative and judicious introduction traces the considerable impact of Renan's controversial ideas—about race, religion, civilization, and reform—on thinkers from left to right in subsequent generations. -- Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago\u003cbr\u003eRenan was one of the most significant liberal thinkers in nineteenth-century France. His occasional essays and lectures constituted major interventions in, and helped set the tone of, public debate. \u003ci\u003eWhat Is a Nation? and Other Political Writings\u003c\/i\u003e makes a fundamental contribution in bringing to the English reader a variety of Renan’s texts which are either unavailable or dispersed, supported by an excellent introduction and supplemented by highly useful explanatory notes. -- Robert D. Priest, Royal Holloway, University of London\u003cbr\u003eHighly recommended. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eSeries Editor’s Foreword\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eChronology\u003cbr\u003e1. On Clerical Liberalism (\u003ci\u003eDu libéralisme clérical\u003c\/i\u003e, 1848)\u003cbr\u003e2. Mr. de Sacy and the Liberal Tradition (\u003ci\u003eM. de Sacy et l’école libérale\u003c\/i\u003e, 1858)\u003cbr\u003e3. The Philosophy of Contemporary History (\u003ci\u003ePhilosophie de l’histoire contemporaine\u003c\/i\u003e, 1859)\u003cbr\u003e4. The Role of the Family and the State in Education (La part de la famille et de l’État dans l’Éducation, 1869)\u003cbr\u003e5. Constitutional Monarchy in France (\u003ci\u003eLa Monarchie constitutionnelle en France\u003c\/i\u003e, 1869)\u003cbr\u003e6. The War between France and Germany (\u003ci\u003eLa Guerre entre la France et l’Allemagne\u003c\/i\u003e, 1870)\u003cbr\u003e7. Two Letters to Mr. Strauss (\u003ci\u003eLettre \u0026amp; Nouvelle lettre à M. Strauss\u003c\/i\u003e, 1870-1871)\u003cbr\u003e8. Intellectual and Moral Reform of France (\u003ci\u003eLa Réforme intellectuelle et morale de la France\u003c\/i\u003e, 1871)\u003cbr\u003e9. What Is a Nation? (\u003ci\u003eQu’est-ce qu’une nation?\u003c\/i\u003e, 1882)\u003cbr\u003e10. Islam and Science (\u003ci\u003eL’Islamisme et la science\u003c\/i\u003e, 1883)\u003cbr\u003e11. Original Unity and Gradual Separation of Judaism and Christianity (\u003ci\u003eIdentité originelle et séparation graduelle du judaïsme et du christianisme\u003c\/i\u003e, 1883)\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036790686039,"sku":"9780231174305","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231174305.jpg?v=1750932576","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-is-a-nation-and-other-political-writings-9780231174305","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}