Tocquevillian Ideas

1. Tocqueville and Europe: What Can We Learn from Him about the Past, the Present and the Future of the Old Continent?
By Zbigniew Rau and Marek Tracz-Tryniecki
A prophet
The American Experienceâ"Unity
European Experienceâ"Diversity
The European Ideaâ"Unity
Tocqueville and the Crisis of the European Integration Project
Concluding Remarks: Towards a Toquevillean Notion of European Unity
2. Tocqueville: A Thinker of Freedom
By Cengiz agla
Tocquevillian Liberty
State, Society and Democracy
Threats to Liberty in Democracies: Lefort and Richter readers of Tocqueville
Conclusion
3. Patriotism in Democracy: What We Learn from Tocqueville
By Ewa Atanassow
Political Sociology of Patriotism
Political Psychology of Patriotism
Psychology of Patriotism Reconsidered
Patriotism in Democracy
In Conclusion: What do we learn from Tocqueville?
4. Tocqueville on Citizen Participation
By Marinus R.R. Ossewaarde
Introduction
Citizen participation according to Tocqueville
Citizen participation and the era of global capitalism
Citizen participation, nature and the state
Citizen participation and the divine significance of democracy
Citizen participation and the heroism of reason
Some further reflections on freedom
5. Tocqueville and the Democratic Churning
By Attila K. Moln¡r
The upgraduation of democracy
What is democracy, and what is not.
Individualismâ"the ens completum
The multitude
Collectivist individualism
Beautiful democracy?
6. Religion, Virtue and the Ennobling of Democracy: Tocqueville's Vision of Civic Society
By Oliver Hidalgo
The Problem of Modern Civil Society: Freedom vs. Equality
Religion and Virtue as Conditions of a Free Civil Society
Catholicism against Pantheism
Conclusion: Ennobling Democracy
7. Human Dignity versus Greatness: Tocquevilleâs Dilemma
By Marek Tracz-Tryniecki
Human dignity
Greatness
Algeria
Conclusion
8. The American Melting Pot as Reductionist Kettle: Religious Liberty's Worrisome Condition
By William R. Stevenson, Jr
Bibliography
List of Authors
Information on the Alexis de Tocqueville Centre for Political and Legal Thought