Pierre Rosanvallon
Paris, France
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Alberto Alemanno: “Because he built an entire intellectual project around making democracy work better rather than just critiquing it, and because he showed that rigorous scholarship and public engagement are not just compatible but necessary complements.”
French historian and sociologist born in 1948. Professor at the Collège de France from 2001 to 2018, holder of the chair in the modern and contemporary history of politics. His writing renews the intellectual history of democracy through major works on legitimacy, equality and distrust: Counter-Democracy (2008), The Society of Equals (2011), Le siècle du populisme (2020), Les institutions invisibles (2024). In 2002 he founded La République des Idées, a publishing house and lecture series bringin
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