The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville
The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville

Author: Cheryl B. Welch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-10-02

Total Pages: 17

ISBN-13: 1139827359

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The Cambridge Companion to Tocqueville contains a set of critical interpretive essays by internationally renowned scholars on the work of Alexis de Tocqueville. The essays cover Tocqueville's major themes (liberty, equality, democracy, despotism, civil society, religion) and texts (Democracy in America, Recollections, Old Regime and the Revolution, other important reports, speeches and letters). The authors analyze both Tocqueville's contributions as a theorist of modern democracy and his craft as a writer. Collections of secondary work on Tocqueville have tended to fall into camps, either bringing together only scholars from one point of view or discipline, or treating only one major text. This Companion transcends national, ideological, disciplinary, and textual boundaries to bring together the best in recent Tocqueville scholarship. The essays not only introduce Tocqueville's major themes and texts, but also put forward provocative arguments that advance the field of Tocqueville studies.

The Cambridge Companion to Constant
The Cambridge Companion to Constant

Author: Helena Rosenblatt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2009-04-13

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1139827715

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Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. The Cambridge Companion to Constant presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars, offering a necessary overview for anyone who wants to better understand this important thinker. Separate sections are devoted to Constant as a political theorist and actor, his work as a social analyst and literary critic, and his accomplishments as a historian of religion. Themes covered range from Constant's views on modern liberty, progress, terror, and individualism, to his ideas on slavery and empire, literature, women, and the nature and importance of religion. The Cambridge Companion to Constant is a convenient and accessible guide to Constant and the most up-to-date scholarship on him.

The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau
The Cambridge Companion to Rousseau

Author: Patrick Riley

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2001-08-27

Total Pages: 474

ISBN-13: 9780521576154

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Universally regarded as the greatest French political theorist and philosopher of education of the Enlightenment, and probably the greatest French social theorist tout court, Rousseau was an important forerunner of the French Revolution, though his thought was too nuanced and subtle ever to serve as mere ideology. This 2001 volume systematically surveys the full range of Rousseau's activities in politics and education, psychology, anthropology, religion, music and theater.

Tocqueville in America
Tocqueville in America

Author: George Wilson Pierson

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 1764

ISBN-13: 9780801855061

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Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont, traveled the breadth of America to inquire into the future of French society as revolutionary upheaval gave way to a representative government similar to America's. This text reconstructs from their diaries and letters and newspaper accounts their nine-month tour and evolving analysis of American society.

The Restless Mind
The Restless Mind

Author: Peter Augustine Lawler

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9780847678242

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This book offers the most comprehensive account yet published of Alexis de Tocqueville's extraordinary thought and life. Peter Augustine Lawler makes clear the understanding of the human condition that is at the foundation of Tocqueville's mixed and elusive view of human liberty.

The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini
The Cambridge Companion to Giovanni Bellini

Author: Peter Humfrey

Publisher:

Published: 2008-06-16

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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This Companion volume brings together commissioned essays by an international team of scholars on Giovanni Bellini, the dominant painter of Early Renaissance Venice. Among the topics and themes to be discussed are Bellini's position in the social and professional life of early modern Venice; his artistic relationships with his brother-in-law Mantegna, with Flemish painting, and with the 'modern style' that emerged in Italy around 1500; and the connections between Bellini's paintings and the sister arts of architecture and sculpture. Further essays reassess the artist's approaches to landscape and color, elements that have always been recognized as central to his pictorial genius.

The Cambridge Companion to Dewey
The Cambridge Companion to Dewey

Author: Molly Cochran

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-07-22

Total Pages: 375

ISBN-13: 0521874564

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John Dewey (1859-1952) was a major figure of the American cultural and intellectual landscape in the first half of the twentieth century. The contributors to this Companion examine the wide range of Dewey's thought and provide a critical evaluation of his philosophy and its lasting influence.

The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins
The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

Author: Jenny Bourne Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-23

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1139827332

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Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville
The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville

Author: Daniel Gordon

Publisher: Anthem Press

Published: 2019-05-30

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1783089768

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‘The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville’ contains original interpretations of Tocqueville’s major writings on democracy and revolution as well as his lesser-known writings on colonies, prisons and minorities. The Introduction by Daniel Gordon discusses how Tocqueville was canonized during the Cold War and the need to reassess the place of Tocqueville’s voice in the conversation of post-Marxist social theory. Each chapter that follows compares Tocqueville’s ideas on a given subject with those of other major social theorists, including Bourdieu, Dahl, Du Bois, Foucault, Lévi-Strauss and Marx. This comprehensive volume is based on the idea that Tocqueville was not merely a founder or precursor whose ideas have been absorbed into modern social science. The broad questions that Tocqueville raised, his comparative vision, and his unique vocabulary and style can inspire deeper thinking in the social sciences today.