Cambridge companion to Tocqueville
By: edited by Cheryl B. Welch.
Contributors: Welch, Cheryl B.
Series: Cambridge companions to philosophy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521840644; 9780521549967
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859; Political science -- Philosophy
Description: 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).

The authors analyze both Tocqueville{u2019}s contributions as a theorist of modern democracy and his craft as a writer. Collections of secondary work on Tocqueville have generally fallen into camps, either bringing together only scholars from one point of view or discipline or dealing with only one major text.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Tocqueville in the 21st Century / Cheryl B. Welch; title: Tocqueville's comparative perspectives / Seymour Drescher; title: Tocqueville on 1789 / Jon Elster; title: Tocqueville's new political science / Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop; title: Tocqueville, political philosopher / Pierre Manent; title: Tocqueville's democracy in America reconsidered / James T. Schleifer; title: Translating Tocqueville / Arthur Goldhammer; title: The writer engagé : Tocqueville and political rhetoric / Laurence Guellec; title: The shifting puzzles of Tocqueville's The Old Regime and the Revolution / Robert T. Gannett Jr; title: Tocqueville and civil society / Dana Villa; title: Tocqueville on threats to liberty in democracies / Melvin Richter; title: Tocqueville and democratic religious experience / Joshua Mitchell; title: Tocqueville on fraternity and fratricide / Cheryl B. Welch; title: Tocqueville and the French / Françoise Mélonio; title: Tocqueville and the Americans / Olivier Zunz.