The Cambridge companion to Tocqueville / edited by Cheryl B. Welch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Welch, Cheryl B., editor.

Series:

Cambridge companions to philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvii, 428 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville contains a set of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. The essays cover Tocqueville's major themes (liberty, equality, democracy, despotism, civil society, religion) and texts (Democracy in America, Recollections, Old Regime and the Revolution, other important reports, speeches and letters). The authors analyze both Tocqueville's contributions as a theorist of modern democracy and his craft as a writer. Collections of secondary work on Tocqueville have tended to fall into camps, either bringing together only scholars from one point of view or discipline, or treating only one major text. This Companion transcends national, ideological, disciplinary, and textual boundaries to bring together the best in recent Tocqueville scholarship. The essays not only introduce Tocqueville's major themes and texts, but also put forward provocative arguments that advance the field of Tocqueville studies.

Contents:

Introduction : Tocqueville in the twenty-first century / Cheryl B. Welch

Tocqueville's comparative perspectives / Seymour Drescher

Tocqueville on 1789 : preconditions, percipitants, and triggers / Jon Elster

Tocqueville's new political science / Harvey C. Mansfield, Jr. and Delba Winthrop

Tocqueville, political philosopher / Pierre Manent

Tocqueville's Democracy in America reconsidered / James T. Schleifer

Translating Tocqueville : the constraints of classicism / Arthur Goldhammer

The writer engagé : Tocqueville and political rhetoric / Laurence Guellec

The shifting puzzles of Tocqueville's The old regime and the revolution / Robert T. Gannett, Jr

Tocqueville and civil society / Dana Villa

Tocqueville on threats to liberty in democracies / Melvin Richter

Tocqueville on democratic religious experience / Joshua Mitchell

Tocqueville on fraternity and fratricide / Cheryl B. Welch

Tocqueville and the French / Françoise Mélonio

Tocqueville and the Americans : Democracy in America as read in nineteenth century America / Olivier Zunz.

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ISBN:

9781139001076 (ebook)

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