Reading Tocqueville

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Tocqueville Today? Contexts, Interpretations and Usages

   • Raf Geenens, Annelien De Dijn

   Pages 1-11

3. Liberalism, Democracy and Empire: Tocqueville on Algeria

   • Jennifer Pitts

   Pages 12-30

4. Creating Concitoyens: Tocqueville on the Legacy of Slavery

   • Cheryl Welch

   Pages 31-51

5. Reading Tocqueville: Diachrony, Synchrony and New Perspectives

   • Jean-Louis Benoît

   Pages 52-70

6. The Return of Tocqueville in Contemporary Political Thought: Individualism, Associationism, Republicanism

   • Serge Audier

   Pages 71-89

7. Democratic Threats and Threats to Democracy

   • Ringo Ossewaarde

   Pages 90-111

8. A Secular Reading of Alexis de Tocqueville

   • Paul Cliteur

   Pages 112-131

9. Democracy and Religion: Some Tocquevillian Perspectives

   • Agnès Antoine

   Pages 132-142

10. Tocqueville, European Integration and Free Moeurs

    • Larry Siedentop

    Pages 143-154

11. Tocqueville and European Federalism: A Reply to Larry Siedentop

    • Wilfried Swenden

    Pages 155-175

12. Back Matter

    Pages 176-190

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This volume sets up a dialogue between the 'historical' and the 'contemporary' Tocqueville. How does a contextualization of Tocqueville, or a focus on his embeddedness in nineteenth-century political culture, add to our understanding of his political thought? How has the use of his writings in political debate influenced the reception of his work?

• bibliography
• culture
• democracy
• dialogue
• empire
• Europe
• ideology
• individual
• integration
• interpret
• religion
• slavery
• understanding
• writing

• Political Philosophy Research Group, Catholic University of Brussels, Belgium

  Raf Geenens

• Leuven University, Belgium

  Annelien Dijn

AGNES ANTOINE Doctor in Political Sciences, currently holds a Professorship, Ecoles des Hautes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France SERGE AUDIER Doctor in Philosophy, currently lectures on Moral and Political Philosophy, Sorbonne University, Paris IV, France JEAN-LOUIS BENOIT Former lecturer at the University of Caen, France PAUL CLITEUR Professor of Jurisprudence, University of Leiden, The Netherlands RINGO OSSEWAARDE Lecturer in Sociology, University of Twente, The Netherlands JENNIFER PITTS Assistant Professor of Politics, Princeton University, USA LARRY SIEDENTOP Professor Emeritus at Keble College, University of Oxford, UK WILFRIED SWENDEN Lecturer in Politics, University of Edinburgh, UK CHERYL WELCH Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Simmons College, USA

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