Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution

Harmonizing Earth with Heaven

Barbara Allen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

400 Seiten

2005
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-1174-1 (ISBN)

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Tocqueville, Covenant, and the Democratic Revolution examines the intellectual and institutional context in which Alexis de Tocqueville developed his understanding of American political culture, with its profound influence on his democratic theory. American democracy, Tocqueville maintained, had emerged from the covenant tradition of Reformed Protestantism. The covenant, or foederal, theology of New England Puritans provided the ideational basis for federated church and civil government, which directly influenced the American constitutionalism and the republican institutions that Tocqueville later observed. Tocqueville suggested that the principles underlying American constitutionalism offered broader lessons in the art and science of self-government. An important book for scholars of Tocqueville as well as American political thought, this book suggests that an understanding of the American covenant tradition is critical to our interpretation of Tocqueville's analysis of the democratic revolution and the "new science of politics" it necessitated.

Barbara Allen is Professor of Political Science at Carleton College.

Chapter 1 Preface: A Curious Inquiry
Part 2 Part One: Tocqueville & American Federal Democracy
Chapter 3 Point of Departure: Covenant & the Democratic Revolution
Chapter 4 Orderly Knit Together: Colonial Covenants & Federations
Chapter 5 Harmonizing Earth with Heaven: Church & State in the Federal Republic
Part 6 Part Two: The Hopes & Fears of the Democratic Age
Chapter 7 Another Form of Hope: Religious Belief & the Democratic Soul
Chapter 8 The Art and Science of Association: The Federal Matrix & the Democratic Soul
Chapter 9 A Failure of Heart and Mind: Conformity, Uniformity, & Despotism in the Democratic Social Power
Part 10 Part Three: Democracy & Paradox
Chapter 11 Bonds of Affection: Republican Motherhood, Sacrifice, & Civic Virtue
Chapter 12 Bonds of Affliction: Race Ideology & the Limits of Democratic Progress
Chapter 13 Servitude or Freedom? Civic Enlightenment & the New Science of Politics

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.8.2005
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 228 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
ISBN-10	0-7391-1174-4 / 0739111744
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-1174-1 / 9780739111741
Zustand	Neuware