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Liberalism in Light of Antitotalitarianism: Revisiting the Schmittian critique of liberal depoliticization in Rosanvallon and Gauchet’s readings of classical liberalism

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Author(s):
Felipe Freller [1]
Total Authors: 1
Affiliation:
[1] Universidade Federal de São Carlos. Departamento de Filosofia - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
Document type: Journal article
Source: Revista Brasileira de Ciência Política; n. 40 2023-03-06.
Abstract

Abstract: This paper seeks to complexify the comprehension of the so-called “French antitotalitarian moment” of the 1970s, marked by the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago and by the intellectual prominence reached by the critique of totalitarianism. The question I raise is how this critique of totalitarianism shapes the interpretations of classical liberalism formulated by authors such as Pierre Rosanvallon and Marcel Gauchet. The hypothesis is that those interpretations are characterized by an ambiguity: in the first instance, both liberalism and totalitarianism are accused of tending towards the suppression of the autonomy of “the political” - an aspect that leads Rosanvallon and Gauchet to revisit the Schmittian critique of liberal depoliticization. Nevertheless, a certain liberal tradition appears as fruitful for exploring the primacy of “the political” in the institution of the social. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 21/03135-0 - From the critique of totalitarianism to the rediscovery of liberalism: an inquiry into the theoretical and political uses of the liberal tradition by the French school of the political
Grantee:Felipe Freller
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral