The Society of Equals.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (385 pages)
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Crisis of Equality -- 1. The Invention of Equality -- 2. The Pathologies of Equality -- 3. The Century of Redistribution -- 4. The Great Reversal -- 5. The Society of Equals: A Preliminary Outline -- Notes -- Index.
Society's wealthiest members claim an ever-expanding share of income and property--a true counterrevolution, says Pierre Rosanvallon, the end of the age of growing equality launched by the American and French revolutions. Just as significant, driving this contemporary inequality has been a loss of faith in the ideal of equality itself.
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Democracy. Equality-Sociological aspects. Social structure. Solidarity.