Cheryl B. Welch (ed.)

Camb Companion Tocqueville

Herausgeber: Welch, Cheryl B.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Transcends national, ideological, disciplinary, and textual boundaries to bring together the best in Tocqueville scholarship.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 462
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 817g
• ISBN-13: 9780521840644
• ISBN-10: 0521840643
• Artikelnr.: 22053514

Autorenporträt

Cheryl Welch received her MA and PhD from Columbia University. She is the author of Liberty and Utility: The French Idéologues and the Transformation of Liberalism and De Tocqueville and editor of Critical Issues in Social Thought with Murray Milgate. She has also written numerous articles in journals such as the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, and History of European Ideas. She has received research grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mellon Foundation, and has been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute, at Harvard Law School, and at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Kennedy School of Government.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Theory: 1. Tocqueville's comparative perspectives Seymour Drescher;
2. Tocqueville on 1789: preconditions, precipitants, and triggers Jon
Elster; 3. Tocqueville's new political science Harvey C. Mansfield and
Delba Winthrop; 4. Tocqueville, political philosopher Pierre Manent; Part
II. Texts: 5. Tocqueville's Democracy in America reconsidered James T.
Schleifer; 6. Translating Tocqueville: the constraints of classicism Arthur
Goldhammer; 7. The writer Engagé: Tocqueville and political rhetoric
Laurence Guellec; 8. The shifting puzzles of Tocqueville's The Old Regime
and the Revolution Robert T. Gannett Jr.; Part III. Themes: 9. Tocqueville
and civil society Dana Villa; 10. Tocqueville on threats to liberty in
democracies Melvin Richter; 11. Tocqueville and democratic religious
experience Joshua Mitchell; 12. Tocqueville on fraternity and fratricide
Cheryl B. Welch; Part IV. Two Traditions: 13. Tocqueville and the French
Françoise Mélonio; 14. Tocqueville and the Americans: Democracy in America
as read in nineteenth-century America Olivier Zunz.