Pierre Rosanvallon

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Pierre Rosanvallon (b. 1948, Blois) is a French intellectual and historian, named professor at the Collège de France in 2001. He holds there the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. His works are dedicated to the history of democracy, French political history, the role of the state and the question of social justice in contemporary societies. He is also director of studies at the EHESS, where he leads the Raymond Aron Centre of Political Researches. Rosanvallon was in the 1970s one of the primary theoreticians of workers' self-management in the CFDT trade-union.

He is diplomed from the HEC management school. In 1982, he created the Fondation Saint-Simon think-tank, along with François Furet. The Fondation dissolved in December 1999. Since 2002, Rosanvallon is member of the Scientific Counsel of the French National Library, and has the same functions, since 2004, at the Ecole normale supérieure of Paris.

Rosanvallon created in 2002 La République des Idées, an "intellectual workshop" which he presides. The group publishes a review and books.

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Democracy Past and Future, (Columbia University Press, ed. Samuel Moyn, 2006) ISBN 0231137400 (excerpts)
The Demands of Liberty — Civil Society in France since the Revolution, Harvard 2007, ISBN 0674024966

L'Âge de l'autogestion, Le Seuil, coll. Points politique, 1976, 246 p.
La Crise de l'État-providence, Le Seuil, 1981 (transl. in 2000, The New Social Question: Rethinking the Welfare State, ISBN 9780691016405)
Le Moment Guizot, Gallimard, 1985
L'État en France de 1789 à nos jours, Le Seuil, L'Univers historique, 1990
La Monarchie impossible Fayard 1994
La Nouvelle Question sociale, Points, Essais, 1995
Le Nouvel Âge des inégalités, (Avec Jean-Paul Fitoussi), Le Seuil, 1996
Le Peuple introuvable : Histoire de la représentation démocratique en France, Folio Histoire, 1998
La Démocratie inachevée. Histoire de la souveraineté du peuple en France, Gallimard, Bibliothèque des histoires, 2000, Folio Histoire extraits déchargables
Le Sacre du citoyen. Histoire du suffrage universel en France, Folio Histoire, 2001
Pour une histoire conceptuelle du politique, Le Seuil, 2003
Le Modèle politique français. La société civile contre le jacobinisme de 1789 à nos jours, Le Seuil, 2004
La contre-démocratie. La politique à l'âge de la défiance, Seuil, 2006.