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The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America

[1] 书籍信息

Richard Boyd (editor), The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America, Cambridge University Press, March 2022.

[2] 编者简介

Richard Boyd is Associate Professor of Government and Director of the Tocqueville Forum for Political Understanding at Georgetown University. His research and teaching interests include the intellectual history of liberalism, civil society and pluralism, economic and sociological theory, and the theory and practice of immigration and citizenship policies in the United States.

He is author of Uncivil Society: The Perils of Pluralism and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Lexington/ Rowman & Littlefield, 2004); co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy (Cambridge, 2013); and editor of the Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America (Cambridge, 2022).

He has also published more than forty journal articles and book chapters on a variety of thinkers and themes in the intellectual history of liberalism, ranging from studies of English and Scottish thinkers such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, and J. S. Mill to major thinkers in the French tradition such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Stendhal to contemporary economists and social philosophers such as F. A. Hayek, Frank H. Knight, and Michael Oakeshott. Before coming to Georgetown in 2007, Boyd taught at the University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deep Springs College.

[3] 书籍简介

This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for understanding the composition, reception, and contemporary legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by political theorists, intellectual historians, economists, political scientists, and community organizers explore the major intellectual influences on Tocqueville's thought, the book's reception in its own day and by subsequent political thinkers, and its enduring relevance for some of today's most pressing issues. Chapters tackle Tocqueville's insights into liberal democracy, civil society and civic engagement, social reform, religion and politics, free markets, constitutional interpretation, the history of slavery and race relations, gender, literature, and foreign policy. The many ways in which Tocqueville's ideas have been taken up – sometimes at cross-purposes – by subsequent thinkers and political actors around the world are also examined. This volume demonstrates the enduring global significance of one of the most perceptive accounts ever written about American democracy and the future prospects for self-government.

[4] 书籍目录

Introduction: Revisiting 'Democracy in America' in the Twenty-First Century Richard Boyd

Part I. Sources and Contexts:
1. Tocqueville and the Philosophy of the Enlightenment (Ryan Patrick Hanley)
2. Tocqueville's Dialogues (Aurelian Craiutu)
3. Fugitive Aristocracy: Tocqueville's Search for Remnants of the Ancien Régime (Richard Avramenko)

Part II. Receptions and Applications:
4. Tocqueville's Conservatism and the Conservative's Tocqueville (Richard Boyd)
5. Tocqueville and the Political Left in America: Heeding a Call for Decisive Action (Robert T. Gannett, Jr.)
6. Democracy in the (Other) America (José Antonio Aguilar Rivera)
7. Tocqueville in Japan and China: Readings and Questions (James T. Schleifer)
8. Tocqueville and Anti-Americanism (Alan Levine)

Part III. Genres and Themes:
9. 'Ideas for the Intellect and Emotions for the Heart': The Literary Dimensions of Democracy in America (Christine Dunn Henderson)
10. Tocquevillian Association and the Market (Rachael K. Behr and Virgil Henry Storr)
11. Tocqueville on the Federal Constitution (Jeremy D. Bailey)
12. Religion in Democracy in America (Carson Holloway)
13. Tocqueville's Puritans (Joshua Mitchell)

Part IV. Democracy's Enduring Challenges:
14. Tocqueville's American Girls: Women, Manners, and the Engendering of Democracy (Eileen Hunt Botting)
15. Picturing American Democracy: Tocqueville, Morrison, and the 'Three Races' (Lawrie Balfour)
16. Democracy in America in the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges of Diversity and Inequality (Rogers M. Smith.)

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