Contents

Preface | 7

1 Introduction

Stephen W. Sawyer, Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen,

Daniel Schulz | 9

2 The Political Theory of Democracy

Pierre Rosanvallon | 23

3 Political Theory through History

Pierre Rosanvallon’ s Concepts of Representation and the People and

their Importance for Understanding Populism

Paula Diehl | 39

4 Rather Topics than Disciplines

Pierre Rosanvallon’s Interdisciplinary Political Thought

Oliver Flügel-Martinsen, Franziska Martinsen | 61

5 Writing the History of Democracy as a History of Tensions,

Antinomies and Indeterminacies

Pierre Rosanvallon’s Method of Conceptual History

Michel Dormal | 75

6 On the Critical Potential of Rosanvallon’s Wide Definition

of Democracy

Wim Weymans | 99

7 Restocking the Storehouse of Democratic Ideas

Pierre Rosanvallon at the Collège de France (2002-2018)

Alain Chatriot | 119

8 Democracy and the Press in Rosanvallon’s Historiography

Greg Conti | 133

9 Pierre Rosanvallon in Context

The Crisis of Republicanism and the Democratic Experience

Daniel Schulz | 159

10 Organizing the Political

Understanding the Crisis of Democracy with Rosanvallon

Felix Heidenreich | 175

11 Governing Democratically

A Reconceptualization of the Executive based on Pierre Rosanvallon

Anna Hollendung | 199

12 Coals to Newcastle

Samuel Moyn | 217

13 Pierre Rosanvallon’s Pragmatic Turn

Stephen W. Sawyer | 229

The Authors | 247