Juste Milieu

Juste Milieu (French: "right center ", " maintaining of mediocrity ") is a buzzword that is used in various fields.

Literature

In numerous comedies of Molière enter the protagonists, who are ( in The Imaginary Invalid, etc. avarice in The Miser, hypochondria ) are characterized by a ridiculous excess of a particular trait called " Räsonierer " preclude the taking guided by reason. These are referred to in the literature as a prophet of a " morality of the juste milieu ". An example is the quote from the first act of Molière's " School for Husbands ":

Political Keyword

As a political slogan was juste milieu after the French July Revolution of 1830 used to characterize the political guiding category of "citizen king " Louis Philippe and of the leading middle class environment. A prominent theorist of the juste milieu was Benjamin Constant.

The term found under the mediation of Young Germany entrance to the German-speaking countries. He served in particular the authors of the pre-March for their attacks against the Liberal conservatism. The criticism was directed against the political " half-measures " and the prevailing liberal economic principles of time, symbolized in the slogan of the Enrichissez -vous. Karl Gutzkow described the juste milieu as " creed [ of exchange men ] that wants to spoil it with no one, and which must be subject to wherever it is doctrine, and deals with positive Zweken, but since the upper hand, where there is only a Maass rule cunning and shrewd calculation of an individual is ".

The concept of the juste milieu went to the middle and high bourgeoisie or the upper middle class over during the Second Empire and the Third Republic. In the political debate it appears today as a polemical slogan against dominant centrist and mediating positions.

Swell

• Historical Dictionary of Switzerland