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Brian Danoff is assistant professor of political science, Miami University. L. Joseph Hebert, Jr. is associate professor and chair of political science at St. Ambrose University.
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
At a time when the forces of administrative despotism are on the march and Winfreyesque rhetoric passes for moral leadership and intellectual sophistication, Brian Danoff and Joseph Hebert have assembled a compelling collection of timely essays on the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, that liberal thinker of the first rank who endeavored to see further than the parties without any pretense to postpartisanship, who understood that more democracy is not always the answer to every problem of democracy, and who concerned himself with educating democratic peoples so that they may live together as free citizens rather than exist independently as dependent subjects. This fine collection situates Tocqueville within the history of ideas, ancient and modern, and examines the significance of his observations, predictions, and prescriptions as they pertain to a wide variety of topics with contemporary relevance. The essays in this volume give articulation to the proper relationship between political theory, political science, and political practice, emphasizing the necessity for genuine republican statesmanship while honestly wondering about its chances given the trajectory of late modern America.
— Travis D. Smith, Concordia University, Montreal
At a time when the forces of administrative despotism are on the march and Winfreyesque rhetoric passes for moral leadership and intellectual sophistication, Brian Danoff and Joseph Hebert have assembled a compelling collection of timely essays on the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, that liberal thinker of the first rank who endeavored to see "further than the parties" without any pretense to postpartisanship, who understood that more democracy is not always the answer to every problem of democracy, and who concerned himself with educating democratic peoples so that they may live together as free citizens rather than exist independently as dependent subjects. This fine collection situates Tocqueville within the history of ideas, ancient and modern, and examines the significance of his observations, predictions, and prescriptions as they pertain to a wide variety of topics with contemporary relevance. The essays in this volume give articulation the proper relationship between political theory, political science, and political practice, emphasizing the necessity for genuine republican statesmanship while honestly wondering about its chances given the trajectory of late modern America.
— Travis D. Smith, Concordia University, Montreal