Title: The Cambridge companion to Tocqueville /
Authors: Welch, Cheryl B.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de,; Political science Philosophy
Abstract: The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville is a collection of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars of the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. The essays cover Tocqueville{u2019}s principal themes {u2013} liberty, equality, democracy, despotism, civil society, religion {u2013} and his major texts (Democracy in America, Recollections, Old Regime and the Revolution, and other important reports, speeches, and letters).
Contents: Introduction : Tocqueville in the twenty-first century / Cheryl B. Welch -- Tocqueville's comparative perspectives / Seymour Drescher -- Tocqueville on 1789 : preconditions, precipitants, 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 and 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.