Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy
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Pierre Manent, former editor of the journal Commentaire and assistant to Raymond Aron, earned an advanced degree in philosophy at the Ecole Normal Superieure. He is currently Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales and co-editor of the journal La Pense Politique.A stunning intellectual achievement worthy of a place in the first circle of Tocqueville studies. . . . Pierre Manent's book illuminates the core of Tocqueville's political philosophy . . . excellent book.
American Political Science Review
This pathbreaking book may well be the most provocative and insightful study of Tocqueville ever published. It is rightly described in Harvey Mansfield's foreword as 'elegant and profound.' This provocative topic is explored with startling acuity, and few readers will leave this book without a new appreciation of Tocqueville's importance.
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This pathbreaking book may well be the most provocative and insightful study of Tocqueville ever published. This provacative topic is explored with startling acuity and few readers will leave this book without a new appreciation of Tocqueville's importance.
Social and Behavioral Sciences
masterfully presents the story . . .
First Things
Manent goes beyond the usual treatment of this familiar Tocquevillian topic... offers enlightening analysis of themes sometimes glossed over in other accounts of Tocqueville.
- ., Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, January 1998
. . . we are indebted to the translator and publishers for making available. Manent's unsurpassed contribution to the appreciation and understanding of that new science of politics, . . .
- William Mathie, The Review of Politics
Manent's unobtrusively extraordinary recapitulation of Tocqueville demonstrates that philosophic detachment need not, and indeed cannot, exist without intense devotion to ordinary experience. His is a book to be read.
- John C. McCarthy, The Catholic University of America, Albert E. Gunn and Staff