商品簡介
This is a paperbound reprint of a 2006 book). Although the title suggests a retracing of Tocqueville's trip through America, the road followed in these essays is the evolution of Tocqueville's political thought. The essays also follow Boesche's thoughts about Tocqueville from the 1980s to the present. In these articles Boesche (history of ideas, Occidental College) considers the methodology that allowed Tocqueville to make such accurate predictions about the US; Tocqueville's concerns about the conflicts of democracy and commerce; and the impossibility of classifying Tocqueville's philosophy. Boesche also compares Tocqueville's predictions to those of Nietzsche, Arendt and others. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Roger Boesche is professor of politics and Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society and author of The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville.
