One of the countrys foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on specific aspects of Tocquevilles political thought: the methodology that Tocqueville brought to his historical and political writings allowing him to predict so well; his assumptions about what constitutes a revolution; his conviction that democracy and commerce at times work against each other; why Tocquevilles thought defies our modern political classifications; his fear of a qualitatively new kind of despotism; and Tocquevilles predictions for the future compared to those of Nietzsche, Arendt, and others. Tocquevilles Road Map is a long overdue addition to Tocqueville scholarship that will find an audience amongst scholars of political thought and history.
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