Democracy and its friendly critics
Subtitle: Tocqueville and political life today
By: edited by Peter Augustine Lawler.
Contributors: Lawler, Peter Augustine.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859 -- Influence; Political science -- United States -- History; Christianity and politics -- Catholic Church; Christianity and politics -- United States -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What Tocqueville says to liberals and conservatives today / Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop; title: National character and national soul / Wilson Carey McWilliams; title: Liberty, equality, nobility : Kolnai, Tocqueville, and the moral foundations of democracy / Daniel J. Mahoney; title: Tocqueville on pantheism, materialism, and Catholicism / Peter Augustine Lawler; title: The modern revolution and the collapse of moral analogy : Tocqueville and Guizot / Ralph C. Hancock; title: Alexis de Tocqueville on the incommensurability of America's founding principles / Aristide Tessitore; title: Citizenship as a vocation / Patrick J. Deneen; title: Compassionate conservatism and biotechnology : some Tocquevillian reflections / Peter Augustine Lawler; title: Religion and the limits of liberal pluralism / Joseph M. Knippenberg; title: Profiles in American Thomism / Marc Guerra; title: Christian love and the foundations of American politics : Winthrop, Jefferson, and Lincoln / Matthew S. Holland; title: Democracy's darksides? Robert Kraynak's Catholic reflections on the soul in the liberal democratic dispensation / Paul Seaton; title: Machiavelli meets the mob : Palminteri's A Bronx tale / Mary P. Nichols and David K. Nichols.