Tocqueville's Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780739116661)

One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought: the methodology that Tocqueville brought to his historical and political writings allowing him to predict so well; his assumptions about what constitutes a revolution; his conviction that democracy and commerce at times work against each other; why Tocqueville's thought defies our modern political classifications; his fear of a qualitatively new kind of despotism; and Tocqueville's predictions for the future compared to those of Nietzsche, Arendt, and others. Tocqueville's Road Map is a long overdue addition to Tocqueville scholarship that will find an audience amongst scholars of political thought and history.

Author: Roger Boesche
ISBN-10: 0739116665
ISBN-13: 9780739116661
Publisher: Lexington Books
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2008
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.07w x 0.78d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 05/01/2008 pg. 204