Articles By Jeremy Jennings
June 2012
François Hollande's lack of clear convictions won him the presidency. Will France regret saying non to Sarkozy?
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May 2012
It may seem like the French belletrist is a dying breed, but the modern-day public intellectual has always been something of a myth
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March 2012
Setting the tone of Catholic political thought for three centuries, it is in France where one uncovers the roots of the separation of Church and State
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September 2011
Book review of Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth-century Europe by Jan-Werner Müller
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June 2011
After four frustrating years, the French President is unpopular. But as his Socialist rival, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, falters, Sarkozy may yet hang on
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April 2011
Alexis de Tocqueville saw that 19th-century America combated individualism through the art of association. Are there lessons here for Cameron's 21st-century Big Society?
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October 2010
The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s by Richard Wolin
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May 2010
A King's Ransom: The Life of Charles Théveneau de Morande, Blackmailer, Scandalmonger & Master Spy by Simon Burrows
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March 2010
Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
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February 2009
Just over 70 years ago, a group of intellectuals met in Paris to revive liberalism. Their views have an eerie echo today
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November 2008
Jeremy Jennings dissects the work of the fashionable left-wing philosopher, who believes that Lenin, Stalin and Mao were too soft
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About Jeremy Jennings
Jeremy Jennings is Professor of Political Theory at Queen Mary University of London. His latest book, Revolution and the Republic: A History of Political Thought in France since the Eighteenth Century, is published by Oxford University Press.
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