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La capacité d'endosser la responsabilité collective des crimes passés est devenue un critère de maturité. Aujourd'hui, le rejet des droits de l'homme s'accompagne d'une fierté sans honte. La perte d'un avenir commun nous condamne à un conflit entre politiques d'identité.

This article explores the relevance of the work of Cambridge historian of political thought István Hont to contemporary political theory. Specifically, it suggests that Hont's work can be of great help to the recent realist revival in political theory, in particular via its lending support to the account favoured by Bernard Williams, which has been a major source for recent realist work. The article seeks to make explicit the main political theoretic implications of Hont's historically-focused work, which in their original formulations are not always easy to discern, as well as itself being a positive contribution to realist theorizing, moving beyond a merely negative critique of dominant moralist positions.

In his posthumously published lectures, Politics in Commercial Society, István Hont argues that Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith should be understood as theorists of commercial society. This article challenges Hont's interpretation of both thinkers and shows that some of his key claims depend on conflating the terms 'commercial society' and 'commercial sociability'. I argue that, for Smith, commercial society should not be defined in terms of the moral psychology of commercial sociability, before questioning Hont's Epicurean interpretation of Smith's theory of sociability. I then turn to Rousseau and outline some of the difficulties involved with classifying him as a theorist of commercial society, the most important of which is that he often appeared to be more deeply opposed to commercial progress than Hont suggests. I conclude by highlighting some of the most salient differences between Rousseau's and Smith's views of the politics of eighteenth-century Europe.

Les soutiens français au pouvoir hutu, responsable du génocide des Tutsi au Rwanda, et au régime de Belgrade, à l'origine de la guerre meurtrière en ex-Yougoslavie, se sont manifestés dans le silence le plus total, alors même que l'Europe condamnatit les crimes contre l'humanité.

Profile of Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen, against whom fundamentalist Islamic threats have been made.