Acknowledgments
Preface by Mark Lilla
Introduction
"Well-Regulated" Democracy versus "Extreme"
Democracy
The Two Critiques
A Sociological Project
Risks of Deviation and "Corruption"
1 The Temptation of the Unlimited
From Autonomy to the Rejection of All Dependence
Autonomy and Independence
Autonomy and Collective Constraints
From Citizenship to Democracy of the Intimate
The Extension
Internalization
From Scientific Progress to the World Without Limits
The Illusion of Omnipotence
Time's Discordance
2 From Liberty to License
The Critical Relationship Toward Institutions
Contestation
From Marriage to PACS and Back Again
"Free" Choices
Difficult Transmission
The Child and the School: Between the Republic and Business
The Museum as a Cultural Enterprise
Representation in Crisis?
To Bypass or To Complement?
The Dream of Ultra-Democracy
Disintegration of Republican Transcendence
Return through Technology?
3 From Equality to Indistinction
Indistinction of Orders
Separation of the Political and of the Ethno-Religious
From Autonomy to Confusion?
The Rejection of Boundaries
Indistinction of Persons
The Utopia of Generalized Exchanges
The Pure and the Impure
Animal and Human
Indistinction of Values
From Relative Relativism to Absolute Relativism
Democratic Tolerance
4 Criticism of Criticism
The Achievements of the Republican Promise
More Freedom
More Tolerance
Richer and Less Unequal
Society of Humiliation
Integration through Individualism?
Face Up to Failure
Less Poor and More Humiliated
Conclusion
Historic Destinies
Its Own Worst Enemy?
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Dominique Schnapper
