Introduction: French politics after the deluge Part I. Writing the National Narrative in Contemporary France: The Return of Republicanism: 1. Writing histories: two republican narratives 2. From nouveaux philosophes to nouveaux reactionnaires: Marxism and the Republic 3. La Republique en danger! The search for consensus and the rise of neo-republican politics 4. Postcolonies I: integration, disintegration and citizenship 5. The Republic, the Anglo-Saxon and the European project Part II. Liberal Critics of Contemporary France: Le Liberalisme Introuvable?: 6. In the shadow of Raymond Aron: the 'liberal revival' of the 1980s 7. Rewriting Jacobinism: Francois Furet, Pierre Rosanvallon and modern French history 8. Postcolonies II: the politics of multiculturalism and colonial memory 9. Whither the Trente Glorieuses? The language of crisis and the reform of the state 10. Liberal politics in France: a story of failure? Conclusion: political consensus in twenty-first-century France Bibliography Index.
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