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Libertés et libéralismes

Libertés et libéralismes

Formation et circulation des concepts

Edited by Jean-Louis Fournel, Jacques Guilhaumou, Jean-Pierre Potier

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This book acknowledges that there can be no reflection on liberalism without the concept of freedom but that no concept of freedom can be included among the different forms of liberalism. The two words which constitute the subject of this investigation refer to empirical or conceptual realities and a priori different chronologies. Liberty refers to an age-old problem, which has existed for as long as human beings have been reflecting on possible forms of living together. Liberalism refers more to a body of doctrine which has its origins in an interpretation of the leading role which liberty plays in exchanges and methods of organising society. The challenge of this collection of studies, which is by choice and by necessity transdisciplinary in nature, is to compare the two notions in terms of their use and history.
This book, therefore, offers a more detailed representation of these concepts than those which are provided by analytical literature (either Isaiah Berlin's dual categorisation which sets positive liberty against negative liberty or the now fixed opposition between liberalism and republicanism). One of the project's results, therefore, is the provision of a principle for explaining the diversity of types of liberalism, which contemporary literature too often endeavours to describe, without reference to the historic moments in their process towards institutionalisation.

Jean-Louis Fournel
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Jean-Louis Fournel, Jean-Claude Zancarini
La politique de l'expérience
Savonarole, Guicciardini et le républicanisme florentin


Contributions:

Jean-Louis Fournel, Matteo Palumbo
This special issue, which is intended as an advisory report, analyses the up-heavals brought about in Italian universities by the Covid-19 pandemic, both in educational relationships and in the impact of distance from the space which is usually a hub for university life and the transmission of knowledge.



Jean-Louis Fournel, Corinne Lucas Fiorato
Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, n°25/2020
Mots et gestes dans l'Italie de la Renaissance
Words and gestures in Early Modern Italy
This issue explores a little-studied aspect of works about the body: the interactions between the two semiotic systems of verbal language and gesture, an aspect of body language. In their interferences, from the 16th century onwards, a profound transformation of the social and individual functions of the "visibile parlare" took place



Jean-Louis Fournel, Christian Biet
Astérion, n°15/2016
Après la guerre
After the War
This issue deals refers to the exact time when violents conflicts are supposed to end. Usually called «postwar period» and always perceived as problematic, this moment is an unachieved process: we know when it starts but we do not ever know when it really ends.



Jean-Louis Fournel
Laboratoire italien. Politique et société, n°17/2016
Textes et documents au temps des Guerres d'Italie : Alciato, Gagliano, Guicciardini, Machiavel, Sforza



Jean-Louis Fournel, Romain Descendre
Langages, politique, histoire. Avec Jean-Claude Zancarini
Languages, Politics, History. With Jean-Claude Zancarini
Hors Collection



Jean-Louis Fournel, Christian Del Vento