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Tocqueville’s Voyages
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Contents
Note on the Contributors
Introduction
CHRISTINE DUNN HENDERSON
PART I: TOCQUEVILLE AS VOYAGER
1 Hidden from View: Tocqueville’s Secrets
EDUARDO NOLLA
2 Tocqueville’s Voyages: To and from America?
S. J. D. GREEN
3 Democratic Dangers, Democratic Remedies, and the Democratic Character
JAMES T. SCHLEIFER
4 Tocqueville’s Journey into America
JEREMY JENNINGS
5 Alexis de Tocqueville and the Two-Founding Thesis
JAMES W. CEASER
6 Tocqueville’s “New Political Science”
CATHERINE H. ZUCKERT
7 Democratic Grandeur: How Tocqueville Constructed His New Moral Science in America
ALAN S. KAHAN
8 Intimations of Philosophy in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
HARVEY C. MANSFIELD
9 An Undertow of Race Prejudice in the Current of Democratic Transformation: Tocqueville on the “Three Races” of North America
BARBARA ALLEN
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10 Tocqueville’s Reflections on a Democratic Paradox
JEAN-LOUIS BENOÎT
11 Out of Africa: Tocqueville’s Imperial Voyages
CHERYL B. WELCH
PART II: TOCQUEVILLIAN VOYAGES
12 Tocqueville’s Voyage of Discovery from Sicily to America
FILIPPO SABETTI
13 Tocqueville, Argentina, and the Search for a Point of Departure
ENRIQUE AGUILAR
14 Tocqueville and Eastern Europe
AURELIAN CRAIUTU
15 Tocqueville and “Democracy in Japan”
REIJI MATSUMOTO
Index
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ENRIQUE AGUILAR holds a PhD in political science from Pontificia Universidad Católica in Argentina, where he presently is professor of political theory and director of the PhD program in Political Science of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Universidad Católica Argentina. He is the author of books and articles on topics pertaining to the liberal and republican traditions.
BARBARA ALLEN is Ada M. Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Social Sciences, professor and former chair of the Department of Political Science, and director of Women’s Studies at Carleton College in Northfield, Minn. She has served as a contributing editor to the Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project at Stanford University and has written extensively on the political thought of Martin Luther King Jr. and Alexis de Tocqueville. Her book Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution: Harmonizing Earth with Heaven examines the covenant idea in politics and its influence on American federalism. Recently, she directed the award-winning feature length documentary Signing On: Stories of Deaf Breast Cancer Survivors, Their Families, and the Deaf Community.
JEAN-LOUIS BENOÎT received his MA in moral and political philosophy from the Université Paris–Sorbonne (Paris IV) and his PhD from the Université de Caen. Since the 1980s, his research has focused on the life, work, and thought of Tocqueville. He initiated and co-organized the 1990 international colloquium L’actualité de Tocqueville and was one of the co-organizers of Tocqueville entre l’Amérique et l’Europe, the international colloquium honoring the bicentenary of Tocqueville’s birth. He is the editor of volume 14 of Gallimard’s Oeuvres Complètes d’Alexis de Tocqueville: Correspondence familiale (1998). His many publications include Tocqueville moraliste (2004); Comprendre Tocqueville (2004); Tocqueville, un destin paradoxal (2005); and Tocqueville, notes sur le Coran et autres textes sur les religions (2007).
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JAMES W. CEASER is Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and a senior visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is author of several books on American politics and political thought, including Presidential Selection, Liberal Democracy and Political Science, Reconstructing America, Nature and History in American Political Development, and Designing a Polity. Professor Ceaser is a frequent contributor to the popular press, and he often comments on American politics for the Voice of America.
AURELIAN CRAIUTU is professor of political science at Indiana University–Bloomington. His main research interests are modern and contemporary French political thought. His most recent book is A Virtue for Courageous Minds: Moderation in French Political Thought, 1748–1830 (Princeton University Press, 2012). He has also edited and translated (with Jeremy Jennings) Tocqueville on America after 1840: Letters and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and coedited (with Sheldon
