Tocqueville's voyages : the evolution of his ideas and their journey beyond his time / edited and with an introduction by Christine Dunn Henderson.

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Tocqueville's Voyages is a collection of new essays by some of today's best-known Tocqueville scholars. The book's title adduces two senses of Tocqueville's famous voyage to America. The essays in Part One explore the development of Tocqueville's thought, his intellectual voyage, during his trip to...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Henderson, Christine Dunn, 1967-
Language:English
Published: Indianapolis : Liberty Fund, 2014.
Subjects:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Travel.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Political and social views.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859 > Influence.
Voyages and travels > History > 19th century.
Democracy > History > 19th century.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859.
Democracy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Political and social views.
Travel.
Voyages and travels.
1800 - 1899
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxv, 475 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction / Christine Dunn Henderson
  • Part I. Tocqueville as voyager
  • Hidden from view : Tocqueville's secrets / Eduardo Nolla
  • Tocqueville's voyages : to and from America? / S.J.D. Green
  • Democratic dangers, democratic remedies, and the democratic character / James T. Schleifer
  • Tocqueville's journey into America / Jeremy Jennings
  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the two-founding thesis / James W. Ceaser
  • Tocqueville's "new political science" / Catherine H. Zuckert
  • Democratic grandeur : how Tocqueville constructed his new moral science in America / Alan S. Kahan
  • Intimations of philosophy in Tocqueville's Democracy in America / Harvey C. Mansfield
  • An undertow of race prejudice in the current of democratic transformation : Tocqueville on the "three races" of North America / Barbara Allen
  • Tocqueville's reflections on a democratic paradox / Jean-Louis Benoît
  • Out of Africa : Tocqueville's imperial voyages / Cheryl B. Welch
  • Part II. Tocquevillian voyages
  • Tocqueville's voyage of discovery from Sicily to America / Filippo Sabetti
  • Tocqueville, Argentina, and the search for a point of departure / Enrique Aguilar
  • Tocqueville and Eastern Europe / Aurelian Craiutu
  • Tocqueville and "Democracy in Japan" / Reiji Matsumoto.