Tocqueville's Road Map - Boesche, Roger

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Auteur(s) : Boesche, Roger

Editeur : Lexington Books

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/12/2007

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 232

Expédition : 383

Dimensions : 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4

ISBN : 0739116665

Résumé :
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Biographie:
Roger Boesche is professor of politics and Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society and author of The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville....

Sommaire:

Chapter 1 Why Could Tocqueville Predict So Well?
Chapter 2 The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville
Chapter 3 Tocqueville: The Tension Between Commerce and Citizenship
Chapter 4 Why Did Tocqueville Think a Successful Revolution Was Impossible?
Chapter 5 The Dark Side of Tocqueville: On War and Empire
Chapter 6 Hedonism and Nihilism: The Predictions of Tocqueville and Nietzsche
Chapter 7 The Prison: Tocqueville's Model of Despotism
Chapter 8 Tocqueville and Arendt on the Novelty of Modern Tyranny
Chapter 9 Le Commerce: A Newspaper Expressing Tocqueville's Unusual Liberalism

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The outcome of a three-decade intellectual dialogue with Tocqueville, Roger Boesche's new book offers a penetrating and engaging analysis of various aspects of the work and personality of Tocqueville. A pleasure to read, Tocqueville's Road Map offers an excellent opportunity to renew our own dialogue with the ideas of the Frenchman who has become the unsurpassable horizon of our times. -- Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University, Bloomington, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science This compilation of essays is rich in detail without losing sight of the grandeur of Tocqueville's vision. Tocqueville, so easy to quote, yet so hard to fully understand, is treated here with subtlety and grace. The nuanced picture that emerges in Mr. Boesche's hands reminds us that Tocqueville remains for us the most sophisticated and important political theorist of the 19th century, whose capacity to shed light on 21st century problems is astounding... -- Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University This balanced collection of articles by one of the leading Tocqueville scholars is most welcome... The author provides a thoughtful, perhaps more ambiguous view of Tocqueville than other scholars. His view is both incisive and compelling. Highly recommended. CHOICE Through his wide-ranging work as an author, editor, and translator, Roger Boesche has achieved recognition as one of the finest Tocqueville scholars of his generation. This volume performs a signal service by bringing together more than two decades worth of outstanding Tocqueville studies by this clear-sighted, humane, and historically informed analyst. -- Matthew Mancini, author of Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Time to Ours This compilation of essays is rich in detail without losing sight of the grandeur of Tocqueville's vision. Tocqueville, so easy to quote, yet so hard to fully understand, is treated here with subtlety and grace. The nuanced picture that emerges in Mr. Boesche's hands reminds us that Tocqueville remains for us the most sophisticated and important political theorist of the 19th century, whose capacity to shed light on 21st century problems is astounding. -- Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University