Pierre Rosanvallon


Pierre Rosanvallon is a French left historian and sociologist. He was named a professor at the Collège de France in 2001, holding the chair in modern and contemporary political history.
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.

Career

He is also director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, where he led the Raymond Aron Centre of Political Researches between 1992 and 2005. Rosanvallon was in the 1970s one of the primary theoreticians of workers' self-management in the French Democratic Confederation of Labour trade union.
He graduated from the Hautes Études Commerciales management school with a PhD from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales. In 1982, he created the Fondation Saint-Simon think-tank, along with François Furet. The Fondation dissolved in December 1999. Rosanvallon is a member of the Scientific Counsels of both the French National Library and the École normale supérieure in Paris.
Rosanvallon created in 2002 the "intellectual workshop" La République des Idées, which publishes a review and books.

Publishings

L'Âge de l'autogestion, Le Seuil, coll. Points politique, 1976.Le capitalisme utopique: critique de idéologie economique. Editions du Seuil, 1979.La Crise de l'État-providence, Editions du Seuil, 1981.Le Moment Guizot, Gallimard, 1985.L'État en France de 1789 à nos jours, Editions du Seuil, L'Univers historique, 1990.La Monarchie impossible Fayard 1994La Nouvelle Question sociale, Points, Essais, 1995 Le Nouvel Âge des inégalités,, Editions du Seuil, 1996Le 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 Le capitalisme utopique: Histoire de l'idée du marché. Editions de Seuil, 1999.Le Sacre du citoyen. Histoire du suffrage universel en France, Folio Histoire, 2001Pour une histoire conceptuelle du politique, Editions du Seuil, 2003Le Modèle politique français. La société civile contre le jacobinisme de 1789 à nos jours, Le Seuil, 2004Democracy Past and Future, The Demands of Liberty — Civil Society in France since the Revolution, Harvard 2007, La contre-démocratie. La politique à l'âge de la défiance, Seuil, 2006.