Book
French
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Abstract
Beyond the oppositions between community and society, between holism and individualism, between positive and negative freedom, it can be asked how it is possible to integrate the communitarism’s critique of social atomism without suppressing the attainments of modem individualism and without reintroducing the idea of a social community marked by traditionalism. From this point of view, Hegel’s and Tocqueville’s endeavours are still exemplary. Therefore the model of a decentered communicational community, built upon the principle of the open societies, provides the conceptual foundation of a public space offering a frame for a shared political culture.