Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy - Softcover

Manent, Pierre

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847681165 ISBN 13: 9780847681167

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 1995

Synopsis

One of France's leading and most controversial political thinkers explores the central themes of Tocqueville's writings: the democratic revolution and the modern passion for equality.

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Review:

Manent's unobtrusively extraordinary recapitulation of Tocqueville demonstrates that philosophic detachment need not, and indeed cannot, exist without intense devotion to ordinary experience. His is a book to be read.--John C. McCarthy, The Catholic University of America "Albert E. Gunn and Staff "

Manent goes beyond the usual treatment of this familiar Tocquevillian topic...--. "Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, January 1998 "

. . . we are indebted to the translator and publishers for making available. Manent's unsurpassed contribution to the appreciation and understanding of that new science of politics, . . .--William Mathie "The Review of Politics "

A stunning intellectual achievement worthy of a place in the first circle of Tocqueville studies. . . . Pierre Manent's book illuminates the core of Tocqueville's political philosophy . . . excellent book.--American Political Science Review

masterfully presents the story . . .--First Things

This pathbreaking book may well be the most provocative and insightful study of Tocqueville ever published. This provacative topic is explored with startling acuity and few readers will leave this book without a new appreciation of Tocqueville's importance.--Social and Behavioral Sciences

About the Author:

Pierre Manent, former editor of the journal Commentaire and assistant to Raymond Aron, earned an advanced degree in philosophy at the Ecole Normal Superieure. He is currently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and co-editor of the journal La Pense Politique.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0847681165
• ISBN 13: 9780847681167
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168