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Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship
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2010
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In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have brought together a diverse set of essays revealing that Tocqueville's understanding of democratic statesmanship remains highly relevant today. The first chapter of the book is a new translation of Tocqueville's 1852 address to the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences, in which Tocqueville offers a profound exploration of the relationship between theory and practice, and between statesmanship and political philosophy. Subsequent chapters explore the relationship between Tocqueville's ideas on statesmanship, on the one hand, and the ideas of Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, the Puritans, the Framers of the U.S. Constitution, Oakeshott, Willa Cather, and the Second Vatican Council, on the other. Timely and provocative, these essays show the relevance of Tocqueville's theory of statesmanship for thinking about such contemporary issues as the effects of NGOs on civic life, the powers of the American presidency, the place of the jury in a democratic polity, the role of religion in public life, the future of democracy in Europe, and the proper balance between liberalism and realism in foreign policy.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4529-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4531-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
341
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Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 1: Speech Given to the Annual Public Meeting of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on April 3, 1852 No access
Chapter 2: Leading by Leaving No access
Chapter 3: Aristotle and Tocqueville on Statesmanship No access
Chapter 4: Machiavelli and Tocqueville on Majority Tyranny No access
Chapter 5: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and the Politics of Mores No access
Chapter 6: Intellectuals and Statesmanship? Tocqueville, Oakeshott, and the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge No access
Chapter 7: Tocqueville's View of the American Presidency and the Limits of Democratic Statesmanship No access
Chapter 8: Changing the People, Not Simply the President: The Limitations and Possibilities of the Obama Presidency, in Tocquevillian Perspective No access
Chapter 9: Moderating the Penal State through Citizen Participation: A Neo-Tocquevillian Perspective on Court Professionals and Juries in a Democracy No access
Chapter 10: From Associations to Organizations: Tocqueville, NGOs, and the Colonization of Civic Leadership No access
Chapter 11: The Tragedy of American Progress: Alexis de Tocqueville and Willa Cather's My Àntonia No access
Chapter 12: The Catholic Church in the Modern World:A Tocquevillian Analysis of Vatican II No access
Chapter 13: Tocqueville on How to Praise the Puritans Today No access
Chapter 14: Tocqueville's Foreign Policy of Moderation and Democracy Expansion No access
Chapter 15: The Twofold Challenge for Democratic Culture in Our Time No access
