Tocqueville and the frontiers of democracy / edited by Ewa Atanassow, Richard Boyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Atanassow, Ewa, editor.

Boyd, Richard, 1970- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Political and social views.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Democracy.

Democratization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Tocqueville & the Frontiers of Democracy

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American political culture, yet his thoughts on democratization outside the West and the challenges of a globalizing age are less known and often misunderstood. This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars explores Tocqueville's vision of democracy in Asia and the Middle East; the relationship between globalization and democracy; colonialism, Islam and Hinduism; and the ethics of international relations. Rather than simply documenting Tocqueville's own thoughts, the volume applies the Frenchman's insights to enduring dilemmas of democratization and cross-cultural exchanges in the twenty-first century. This is one of the few books to shift the focus of Tocqueville studies away from America and Western Europe, expanding the frontiers of democracy and highlighting the international dimensions of Tocqueville's political thought.

Contents:

Introduction: Tocqueville and the frontiers of democracy / Ewa Atanassow and Richard Boyd

Part I . The Meaning of Democracy and the Democratic Revolution: 1. Democracy and revolution in Tocqueville: the frontiers of democracy / Nestor Capdevila; 2. The frontier between democracy and aristocracy / Ran Halévi; 3. Tocqueville's Burke, or story as history / Ralph Lerner

Part II. Democratization in a Non-Western Context: 4. Tocqueville and religion: beyond the frontier of Christendom / Alan Kahan; 5. Deliberating democratization with Tocqueville: the case of East Asia / Cheryl B. Welch; 6. Tocquevillean thoughts on higher education in the Middle East / Joshua Mitchell

Part III. Challenges of Globalization: Democracy, Markets, and Nationhood: 7. Tocqueville and the unsettled global village / Susan McWilliams; 8. Nationhood: democracy's final frontier? / Ewa Atanassow; 9. Commerce, glory, and empire: Montesquieu's legacy / Céline Spector

Part IV. Democracy, Imperialism, and Foreign Policy: 10. The surprising M. Tocqueville: necessity, foreign policy, and civic virtue / David Clinton; 11. Democracy and domination: empire, slavery, and democratic corruption in Tocqueville's thought / Jennifer Pitts; 12. Tocqueville and the Napoleonic legend / Richard Boyd

Part V. Democracy's Old and New Frontiers: 13. Tocqueville, the problem of equality, and John Ford's Stagecoach / Robert Pippin; 14. The poetry of democracy / Paul Berman; 15. Tocqueville and the local frontiers of democracy / Robert T. Gannett, Jr.

Epilogue: new frontiers, old dilemmas / Richard Boyd.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-23456-5

1-107-32666-4

1-107-25538-4

1-107-33642-2

1-107-33310-5

0-511-84204-X

1-107-33476-4

1-299-27641-5

1-107-33559-0

OCLC:

828868872