Handbook to Tocqueville

This handbook offers a comprehensive overview of Tocqueville's life, work and impact based on the current state of historical, philosophical and social science research. This volume is dedicated to an extremely multifaceted author who is still underestimated in many respects. It offers a compact and systematic presentation of various aspects of Tocqueville's thought using a topical approach and taking into account all of his writings. Readers can rapidly and efficiently obtain substantiated information on Tocqueville's theories, central concepts and his most significant influences. Concurrently, the handbook serves as a reference for understanding Tocqueville's relationship to contemporary debates and subject areas. It also provides useful information for conceptualising teaching and research projects.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent human revision was done primarily in terms of content.

The first comprehensive insight into the important, fundamental questions and individual aspects of Tocqueville's work Provides a compass for understanding Tocqueville's relationship to current debates At the cutting edge of historical, philosophical and social science research

Autorentext

Dr. phil. habil. Norbert Campagna is Associate Professor at the Université du Luxembourg and a secondary school teacher of philosophy, history, English, psychology and civics.

Prof. Dr. Oliver Hidalgo is Professor of Political Science at the University of Passau.

Dr. Skadi Siiri Krause is a fellow at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and an employee at the Ständige Vertretung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in the European Union.

Klappentext

Alexis de Tocqueville (18051859) is regarded as one of the most significant figures in the history of political ideas and is widely acknowledged as the founder of comparative politics. This handbook provides an overview of Tocquevilles life and various aspects of his thought, taking into account all of his writings and the various influences that shaped his ideas. A comprehensive terminology section, as well as chapters on historical, subject-specific and topic-specific discourses, provide additional insight into the uvre of Tocqueville.

The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence. A subsequent manual revision was done primarily in terms of content.

Inhalt

Preface to the 1st and 2nd Edition.- Sigles.- Editors and Contributors.- Part I Overview of the Life and Work.- Part II Major works.- Part III Political essays.- Part IV Literarisch-persönliche Schriften.- Part V Influences.- Part VI Terms and concepts.- Part VII Effect: Historical Reception Discourses.- Part VIII Effect: Discourses of reception in specific fields.- Part IX Effect: topic-specific reception discourses.- Appendix.- Time Table.- Institutes and Facilities.- Index.