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Type:
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Conference Paper |
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Author:
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Craiutu, Aurelian |
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Conference:
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Workshop on the Workshop 3 |
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Location:
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Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
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Conf. Date:
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June 3-6 |
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Date:
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2004 |
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URI:
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https://hdl.handle.net/10535/6516
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Theory |
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Subject(s):
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social science
political philosophy
political theory
Tocqueville, Alexis de
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Abstract:
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"Tocqueville has become, so to speak, the 'unsurpassable horizon' of our times. How can we account for the current fascination with Tocqueville? As Cheryl Welch argued, we love to converse with Tocqueville because his work 'seems to retain a greater measure of normative and exploratory power—and intellectual provocation—than that of many other nineteenth-century thinkers' (Welch 2000, 1). Tocqueville, who aspired to create a new science of politics, has manifested a unique power to bring certain political anxieties into sharper focus. His writings have been creatively appropriated by thinkers on both the left and the right, who admire him either for his insights into democratic citizenship and the art of association or for his defense of decentralization and self-government and his skepticism toward big government."
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