Alexis de Tocqueville and the art of democratic statesmanship / edited by Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr.
- Published
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]
- Copyright Date
- ©2011
- Physical Description
- vii, 341 pages ; 24 cm
- Additional Creators
- Danoff, Brian and Hebert, L. Joseph (Louie Joseph), 1975-
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Statesmanship and Political Philosophy -- 1.Speech Given to the Annual Public Meeting of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on April 3, 1852 / Alexis de Tocqueville -- 2.Leading by Leaving / Susan McWilliams -- 3.Aristotle and Tocqueville on Statesmanship / Aristide Tessitore -- 4.Machiavelli and Tocqueville on Majority Tyranny / Khalil M. Habib -- 5.Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and the Politics of Mores / F. Flagg Taylor IV -- 6.Intellectuals and Statesmanship? Tocqueville, Oakeshott, and the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge / Conor Williams -- pt. II Statesmanship and Government -- 7.Tocqueville's View of the American Presidency and the Limits of Democratic Statesmanship / William B. Parsons, Jr. -- 8.Changing the People, Not Simply the President: The Limitations and Possibilities of the Obama Presidency, in Tocquevillian Perspective / Thad Williamson -- 9.Moderating the Penal State through Citizen Participation: A Neo-Tocquevillian Perspective on Court Professionals and Juries in a Democracy / Albert W. Dzur -- pt. III Statesmanship Outside of Government -- 10.From Associations to Organizations: Tocqueville, NGOs, and the Colonization of Civic Leadership / Derek Barker -- 11.The Tragedy of American Progress: Alexis de Tocqueville and Willa Cather's My Antonia / Jon D. Schaff -- 12.The Catholic Church in the Modern World: A Tocquevillian Analysis of Vatican II / L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. -- 13.Tocqueville on How to Praise the Puritans Today / Peter Augustine Lawler -- pt. IV Statesmanship Abroad -- 14.Tocqueville's Foreign Policy of Moderation and Democracy Expansion / Paul Carrese -- 15.The Twofold Challenge for Democratic Culture in Our Time / Thomas L. Pangle.
- Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9780739145296 (cloth : alk. paper)
0739145290 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739145302 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0739145304 (pbk. : alk. paper) - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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