Alexis de Tocqueville and the art of democratic statesmanship
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Alexis de Tocqueville and the art of democratic statesmanship
Lexington Books, c2011
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Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
1 Acknowledgments 2 Introduction 3 Part I: Statesmanship and Political Philosophy 4 Speech Given to the Annual Public Meeting of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences on April 3, 1852 5 Leading by Leaving 6 Aristotle and Tocqueville on Statesmanship 7 Macchiavelli and Tocqueville on Majority Tyranny 8 Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and the Politics of Mores 9 Intellectuals and Statesmanship? Tocqueville, Oakeshott, and the Distinction between Theoretical and Practical Knowledge 10 Part II: Statesmanship and Government 11 Tocqueville's View of the American Presidency and the Limits of Democratic Statesmanship 12 Changing the People, Not Simply the President 13 Moderating the Penal State through Citizen Participation 14 Part III: Statsmanship Outside of Government 15 From Associations to Organizations 16 The Tragedy of American Progress 17 The Catholic Church in the Modern World 18 Tocqueville on How to Praise the Puritains Today 19 Part IV: Statesmanship Abroad 20 Tocqueville's Foreign Policy of Moderation and Democracy Expansion 21 The Twofold Challenge for Democratic Culture in Our Time
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