Reading Tocqueville
Subtitle: from oracle to actor
By: edited by Raf Geenens and Annelien De Dijn
Contributors: Geenens, Raf, 1979-; Dijn, Annelien de, 1977-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9780230527461
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859; Democracy; Federal government -- European Union countries; Europe -- Economic integration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index
Table of contents: title: Tocqueville today? : contexts, interpretations and usages / Raf Geenens, Annelien De Dijn; title: Liberalism, democracy, and empire : Tocqueville on Algeria / Jennifer Pitts; title: Creating concitoyens : Tocqueville on the legacy of slavery / Cheryl Welch; title: Reading Tocqueville : diachrony, synchrony, ideology and new perspectives / Jean-Louis Benoît; title: The return of Tocqueville in contemporary political thought : individualism, associationism, republicanism / Serge Audier; title: Democratic threats and threats to democracy / Ringo Ossewaarde; title: A secular reading of Alexis de Tocqueville / Paul Cliteur; title: Democracy and religion : some Tocquevillian perspectives / Agnès Antoine; title: Tocqueville, European integration and free moeurs / Larry Siedentop; title: Tocqueville and European federalism : a reply to Larry Siedentop / Wilfried Swenden