Compromise a political and philosophical history / Alin Fumurescu, Tulane University.

"This book offers a conceptual history of compromise that demonstrates the connection between different understandings of compromise and corresponding differences in understandings of political representation"--

"This book offers for the first time a conceptual history of compromise. Alin Fumurescu combines contextual historical analysis of daily parlance and a survey of the usage of the word from the end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the eighteenth century in both French and English with an analysis of canonical texts in the history of political thought. This book fills a significant gap in the literature about compromise and demonstrates the connection between different understandings of compromise and corresponding differences in understandings of political representation. In addition, Fumurescu addresses two controversial contemporary debates about when compromise is beneficial and when it should be avoided at all costs. A better understanding of the genealogy of compromise offers new venues for rethinking basic assumptions regarding political representation and the relationship between individuals and politics"--

Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 1.1. The Opportunity; 1.2. The Challenges; 1.3. Compromise and Self-Representation; 1.4. Compromise and Political Representation; 1.5. The Structure of the Argument; 1.6. Preliminary Conclusions; 2 No Compromise about Compromise; 2.1. Compromise before Compromise?; 2.2. Compromise: From Method to Principle; 2.3. Compromise Without Compromising?; 2.4. The (A)Morality of Compromise; 2.5. Compromise as a National Feature?; 3 The Genealogy of Compromise and Its Vagaries; 3.1. Compromissum as Arbitratio

3.2. Compromissum as Electio3.3. The French Méfiance about Compromise; 3.4. The Virtues of British Compromise; 4 The Dialectic of the Individual; 4.1. The Ambivalent Christian; 4.2. One Individual, Two Fora; 4.3. Two Fora, One Church; 4.4. One Res publica, Two Fora; 4.5. Individuals and Representation; 5 Compromise and Centripetal Individualism; 5.1. The Emergence of Centripetal Individualism; 5.2. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose -- Sovereignty: Between Will and Reason; 5.3. State versus People; 5.4. Centripetal Individualism and Hands-On Politics

6 Compromise and Centrifugal Individualism6.1. "And the British Being Utterly Divided from the Whole World"; 6.2. The Common Weal of Individuals; 6.3. Collapsing the Two Fora; 6.4. Centrifugal Individualism, Compromise, and Contractualism; 6.5. Parliament and Ascending Representation; 6.6. Compromise as Political Practice; 6.7. The Glorious Compromise; 7 The Forgotten Road of Representation; 7.1. The French 'Contracts of Reason'; 7.2. Other Continental Versions of Contract Theory; 7.3. French Contractualism after Hobbes and Locke; 8 The British Contract as Com-promise

8.1. Patriarchalism and Contractualism8.2. Republicanism and Contractualism; 8.3. The Advent of the 'New' Compromise in Politics; 9 Conclusions; 9.1. Compromise and the Two-Dimensional Man; 9.2. Compromise and the One-Dimensional Man; 9.3. Compromise and Civil Society; 9.4. Compromise and Ascending Representation; 9.5. Render Unto Compromise ...; 9.6. The Future of Political Compromise; Index

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