| Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism Contributor(s): Boesche, Roger (Author) |
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ISBN: 0739116665 ISBN-13: 9780739116661 Publisher: Lexington Books OUR PRICE: $54.44 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2008 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - Political Science | Essays - Political Science | History & Theory - General |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.78" H x 6.07" W x 9.01" (0.77 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought: the methodology that Tocqueville brought to his historical and political writings allowing him to predict so well; his assumptions about what constitutes a revolution; his conviction that democracy and commerce at times work against each other; why Tocqueville's thought defies our modern political classifications; his fear of a qualitatively new kind of despotism; and Tocqueville's predictions for the future compared to those of Nietzsche, Arendt, and others. Tocqueville's Road Map is a long overdue addition to Tocqueville scholarship that will find an audience amongst scholars of political thought and history. |