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A PASSION

FOR DEMOCRACY

Benjamin Constant

by Tzvetan Todorov

By the same author, in English translation:

Facing the Extreme (Holt, 1996)

A French Tragedy (University Press of New England, 1996) The Morals of History (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) On Human Diversity (Harvard University Press, 1993) Genres in Discourse (Cambridge University Press, 1990) Literature and Its Theorists (Cornell University Press, 1987) The Conquest of America (University of Oklahoma Press, 1999;

HarperCollins, 1984)

Theories of the Symbol (Cornell University Press, 1982) Symbolism and Interpretation (Cornell University Press, 1982) Mikhail Bakhtin, The Dialogical Principle (University of Minnesota

Press, 1981)

Introduction to Poetics (University of Michigan Press, 1981) Encyclopedic Dictionary of the Sciences of Language (with O. Ducrot,

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979)

The Poetics of Prose (Cornell University Press, 1977)

The Fantastic (Cornell University Press, 1975)

A Passion for Democracy -

BENJAMIN CONSTANT

by

TZVETAN TODOROV

Translated

by Alice Seberry

Algora Publishing

© 1999 by Algora Publishing

All rights reserved. Published 1999

Printed in the United States of America

Editors@algora.com

Originally published as Benjamin Constant, La Passion démocratique,

© Éditions Hachette Littératures, 1997.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 99-33966

Todorov, Tzvetan, 1939-

[Benjamin Constant. English] A Passion for Democracy / Tzvetan Todorov; translated from

French by Alice Seberry.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 1-892941-01-5 (alk. paper)

1. Constant, Benjamin, 1767-1830 - Contributions in political sci-

ence. 2. Democracy. I. Title.

JC229.C8T6313 1999

320.5' 12' 092 - dc21

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum require- ments of the American National Standard for Information Sci- ences - Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z

39.48-1992.

New York

www.algora.com m i- e- i- SI References given within parentheses refer to publications listed at the end of the book. The last number designates the page of the quoted text; the number immediately prior designates the internal subdivision of the cited text (the part, section, or chapter number).

For Paul Bénichou

Front Cover: Variation on a theme by Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) The Vow to Love 1

Table of Contents

The Elusive Constant 5 A Multifaceted Work 13 Biography 15 Inventory 19 How Should Constant Be Read? 23 Liberal Democracy 33 Autonomy and Moderation 35 The Principle of Freedom 41 The "Era of the Individual" 47 The Virtue of Freedom 49 A Critique of Modernity 52 Historicism or Essentialism 61 Inexorable History 63 The March Toward Equality 66 The Unity and the Liberty of Mankind 70

A Passion for Democracy

2 The Reign of Interest 75 Interest as a Motive 78 Time, and Other People 82 Political Commitment 87 A Centrist Position 89 Individuals and Principles 93 In Power, with the Opposition 97 Journalist and Deputy 99 The "Misery of the Human Heart" 101 Egoistic Love 104 The Ideal of Fusion 108 The Logic of Desire 110 Loving 117 Anna and Juliette 120 A Wound that Can Never Be Healed 125 Friend and Father 131 "A Two-Sided and Enigmatic Being" 135 I, You, They 137 The Desire for Independence 142 "An Unknown Center" 145 The Anatomy of Human Exchanges 151 The "Reciprocal Situation" 153 A Theory of Language 157quotesdbs_dbs3.pdfusesText_6

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