Reading Tocqueville : from oracle to actor / edited by Raf Geenens and Annelien De Dijn.

Other author Geenens, Raf, 1979-
Other author Dijn, Annelien de, 1977-
Format Book
Publication InfoBasingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Descriptionx, 190 pages ; 23 cm
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Contents Tocqueville today? : contexts, interpretations and usages / Raf Geenens, Annelien De Dijn -- Liberalism, democracy, and empire : Tocqueville on Algeria / Jennifer Pitts -- Creating concitoyens : Tocqueville on the legacy of slavery / Cheryl Welch -- Reading Tocqueville : diachrony, synchrony, ideology and new perspectives / Jean-Louis Benoît -- The return of Tocqueville in contemporary political thought : individualism, associationism, republicanism / Serge Audier -- Democratic threats and threats to democracy / Ringo Ossewaarde -- A secular reading of Alexis de Tocqueville / Paul Cliteur -- Democracy and religion : some Tocquevillian perspectives / Agnès Antoine -- Tocqueville, European integration and free moeurs / Larry Siedentop -- Tocqueville and European federalism : a reply to Larry Siedentop / Wilfried Swenden.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 176-184) and index.
LCCN 2007048301
ISBN0230527469 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN9780230527461 (hbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks JC229.T8 R43 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold