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Title: Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship
Condition: New
EAN: 9780739145296
ISBN: 9780739145296
Publisher: Lexington Books
Format: Hardback
Release Date: 13/12/2010
Item Height: 240mm
Item Length: 162mm
Item Width: 28mm
Item Weight: 685g
Contributor: Brian Danoff (Contributions by), Albert W. Dzur (Contributions by), Khalil M. Habib (Contributions by), Peter Augustine Lawler (Contributions by), Derek Barker (Contributions by), Richard Boyd (Contributions by), Paul Carresse (Contributions by), Brian Danoff (Edited by), L. Joseph Hebert (Edited by), Susan McWilliams Barndt (Contributions by), Thomas L. Pangle (Contributions by), William B. Parsons (Contributions by), Jon D. Schaff (Contributions by), F Flagg Taylor IV (Contributions by), Aristide Tessitore (Contributions by), Alexis De Tocqueville (Contributions by), Conor Williams (Contributions by), Thad Williamson (Contributions by), L Joseph Hebert Jr. (Contributions by)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0739145290
Description: 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.
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Law & Politics
Author: L. Joseph Hebert
Release Year: 2010

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