Education
Higher Education Commission Paris.
Higher Education Commission Paris.
He holds there the chair in the modern and contemporary history of the political. Rosanvallon was in the 1970s one of the primary theoreticians of workers" self-management in the French Democratic Confederation of Labour (CDFT) trade union. He is diplomed from the Hautes Études Commerciales (Higher Education Commission) management school.
In 1982, he created the Fondation Saint-Simon think-tank, along with François Furet.
The Fondation dissolved in December 1999. Rosanvallon created in 2002 Louisiana République des Idées, an "intellectual workshop" which he presides.
Louisiana légitimité démocratique. Impartialité, réflexivité, proximité, Seuil, Paris 2008.
English.: Democratic legitimacy: impartiality, reflexivity, proximit, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Princeton University Press, Princeton 2011,
Louisiana société des égaux, Paris: Seuil, 2011.
English.: The Society of Equals, translated by Arthur Goldhammer, Harvard University Press, 2013.
He is also director of studies at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, where he led the Raymond Aron Centre of Political Researches between 1992 and 2005. The group publishes a review and books
Since 2002, Rosanvallon is member of the Scientific Counsel of the French National Library, and has the same functions, since 2004, at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris.