Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-107-00963-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1000 g

This collection of essays uses Alexis de Tocqueville's writings as a jumping-off point to explore the dilemmas of democratization in the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boyd, Richard

Atanassow, Ewa

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments; Short title key to works cited; Introduction: Tocqueville and the frontiers of democracy Ewa Atanassow and Richard Boyd; Part I. The Meaning of Democracy and the Democratic Revolution: 1. Democracy and revolution in Tocqueville: the frontiers of democracy Nestor Capdevila; 2. The frontier between democracy and aristocracy Ran Halevi; 3. Tocqueville's Burke, or story as history Ralph Lerner; Part II. Democratization in a Non-Western Context: 4. Tocqueville and religion: beyond the frontier of Christendom Alan Kahan; 5. Deliberating democratization with Tocqueville: the case of East Asia Cheryl Welch; 6. Tocquevillean thoughts on higher education in the Middle East Joshua Mitchell; Part III. Challenges of Globalization: Democracy, Markets, and Nationhood: 7. Tocqueville and the unsettled global village Susan McWilliams; 8. Nationhood: democracy's frontier? Ewa Atanassow; 9. Commerce, glory, and empire: Montesquieu's legacy Celine Spector; Part IV. Democracy, Imperialism, and Foreign Policy: 10. The surprising M. Tocqueville: necessity, foreign policy, and civic virtue David Clinton; 11. Democracy and domination: empire, slavery, and democratic corruption in Tocqueville's thought Jennifer Pitts; 12. Tocqueville and the Napoleonic legend Richard Boyd; Part V. Democracy's Old and New Frontiers: 13. Tocqueville, the problem of equality, and John Ford's Stagecoach Robert Pippin; 14. The poetry of democracy Paul Berman; 15. Tocqueville and the local frontiers of democracy Robert T. Gannett, Jr; Epilogue: new frontiers, old dilemmas Richard Boyd; List of contributors; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Boyd, Richard
Richard Boyd is Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University, where he teaches courses on liberalism, international ethics, and the history of political philosophy. He is the author of Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism (2004).

Atanassow, Ewa
Ewa Atanassow is Assistant Professor at ECLA of Bard, a liberal arts university in Berlin. Her research focuses on democracy and nationhood, and on the intersection of ethics, psychology, and politics in the liberal tradition of political thought.