Intellectual founders of the Republic : five studies in nineteenth-century French republican political thought / Sudhir Hazareesingh

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction: Revisiting the intellectual transformation of nineteenth-century France -- Between positivism and republicanism: Émile Littré and the founding of the Third Republic -- Centralist defender of the state: the eclectic republicanism of Charles Dupont-White -- From democratic advocate to monarchist critic of the republic: the ambiguous republicanism of Étienne Vacherot -- A republican Saint-Simonian: Eugène Pelletan and the transformation of nineteenth-century republicanism -- Neo-Kantian moralist and activist: Jules Barni and the establishment of the municipalist republic -- Conclusion: The origins of the Third Republic reconsidered.

Introduction: Revisiting the intellectual transformation of nineteenth-century France -- Between positivism and republicanism: (c)œmile Littr(c)♭ and the founding of the Third Republic -- Centralist defender of the state: the eclectic republicanism of Charles Dupont-White -- From democratic advocate to monarchist critic of the republic: the ambiguous republicanism of (c)œtienne Vacherot -- A republican Saint-Simonian: Eug(c)·ne Pelletan and the transformation of nineteenth-century republicanism -- Neo-Kantian moralist and activist: Jules Barni and the establishment of the municipalist republic -- Conclusion: The origins of the Third Republic reconsidered