The Gilets Jaunes And The New Social Contract

Download or read book The Gilets Jaunes and the New Social Contract written by Charles Devellennes and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses what lessons can be drawn from their activities and the impact for the contemporary relationship between state and citizen. Informed by a dialogue with past political theorists – from Hobbes, Spinoza and Rousseau to Rawls, Nozick and Diderot – and reflecting on the challenges posed by the yellow vest movement, the author rethinks the concept of the social contract for contemporary societies around the world. It proposes a new relationship between the state and the individual, and establishes the necessity of rethinking the modern democratic nature of our representative polities in order to provide a genuine process for the healing of social ills.