https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/Detrivialising-democracy-Marcel https://booksandideas.net/Detrivialising-democracy-Marcel 2008-04-30T06:50:00Z text/html en Blaise Bachofen Philosophy democracy liberalism individualism theologico-political <p>In <i>L'Avènement de la démocratie (The Advent of Democracy)</i>, Marcel Gauchet claims that our democracies are in crisis as a result of modernity's difficulty in letting go of the religious order. But this thesis, while challenging, suffers from being over systematic, viewing any desire for unity as nostalgia for the divine. Moreover, it throws the issue of social struggles into the shade.</p>