Tocqueville’s Voyages
is a collection of newly written essays by some of the most well-known Tocquevillian scholars today. The essays in the first part of the volume explore the development of Tocqueville’s thought, his intellectual voyage, during his trip to America and while writing
Democracy in America
. The second part of the book focuses on the dissemination of Tocqueville’s ideas beyond the Franco-American context of 1835–1840 in places such as Argentina, Japan, and Eastern Europe.
The articles and contributors are as follows:
Part 1: Tocqueville as Voyager
Hidden from View: Tocqueville’s Secrets
Eduardo Nolla
Tocqueville’s Voyages: To and From America?
S. J. D. Green
Democratic Dangers, Democratic Remedies, and the Democratic Character
James T. Schleifer
Tocqueville’s Journey into America
Jeremy Jennings
Alexis de Tocqueville and the Two-Founding Thesis
James W. Ceaser
Tocqueville’s “New Political Science”
Catherine H. Zuckert
Democratic Grandeur: How Tocqueville Constructed His New Moral Science in America
Alan S. Kahan
Intimations of Philosophy in Tocqueville’s “Democracy in America”
Harvey C. Mansfield
An Undertow of Race Prejudice in the Current of Democratic Transformation: Tocqueville on the “Three Races” of North America
Barbara Allen
Tocqueville’s Reflections on a Democratic Paradox
Jean-Louis Benoît
Out of Africa: Tocqueville’s Imperial Voyages
Cheryl B. Welch
Part 2: Tocquevillian Voyages
Tocqueville’s Voyage of Discovery from Sicily to America
Filippo Sabetti
Tocqueville, Argentina, and the Search for a Point of Departure
Enrique Aguilar
Tocqueville and Eastern Europe
Aurelian Craiutu
Tocqueville and “Democracy in Japan”
Reiji Matsumoto
This book gives readers unprecedented access to the development of Tocqueville’s thought as seen through the eyes of some of today’s most preeminent Tocquevillian scholars. Not only do the essays shed fresh light on the ideas in
, but they also invite readers to reassess previous interpretations of Tocqueville’s great work and to consider its continued relevance to the world today.
Christine Dunn Henderson is a Senior Fellow at Liberty Fund.