Pierre Manent - Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy
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Pierre Manent Translated by John Waggoner Foreword by Harvey C. Mansfield
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
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Manent, Pierre, [Tocqueville et la nature de la democratie[dmocratie], English] Tocqueville and the nature of democracy / by Pierre Manent; translated by John Waggoner. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Tocqueville, Alexis de, 18051859. 2. Democracy. I. Title. JC229.T8M3213 1996 320'.092dc20 95-38604 CIP
ISBN 0-8476-8115-7 (cloth: alk. paper) ISBN 0-8476-8116-5 (pbk.: alk. paper)
Printed in the United States of America
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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Contents
Foreword
by Harvey C. Mansfield
vii
Preface to the 1993 French Edition
xi
Introduction
xv
1 The Definition of Democracy
1
2 Democracy and Aristocracy
13
3 The Force of Democratic Equality
29
4 The Social Power
37
5 The Mildness of Democracy
47
6 Democratic Man
53
7 Democracy and the Nature of Man
67
8 Democracy and Religion
83
9 Democracy and Democratic Revolution
109
Conclusion
129
Notes
133
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Foreword
Pierre Manent's elegant and profound work is the best introduction I know to the greatness of Tocqueville. It is one among a number of books on Tocqueville recently published in France that attempt to recover for present use an author who had been sadly neglected by his countrymen. Since World War Two French thought had been in a near-universal subjection to Marxismwith the proud exception of Raymond Aronwhile being frequently dazzled by emanations, such as the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and the structuralism of Michel Foucault, from the powerful mind of Martin Heidegger. But for two decades now, thanks to the influence of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the new anti-Marxist historiography of the French Revolution led by Francois[Franois] Furet, and, simply and finally, the collapse of communism and socialism, French philsophers and intellectuals have liberated themselves not only from Marxism but also from the varieties of neo-Marxism that had taken nourishment from Heidegger. Liberalism returned to Paris, of all placesat once the most and the least bourgeois city in the world. The French wisely turned to historical liberalism, to the nineteenth-century liberalism of Benjamin Constant, Francois[Franois] Guizot, and Alexis de Tocqueville (which is, they realized, their own), as well as to the English liberals and the American Founders. For some reason they did not take to the more overtly theoretical or analytical liberalism of Anglo-American philosophers today.
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Pierre Manent's book is of such quality that it resists being placed in its time. But it offers a compelling contrast to the theories widely available in Anglo-America that issue in moral demands made on politics from outside politics. Such theories overlook the requirements of politics itself, which may have its own demands to be made on morality; and they willfully ignore the nature of man, which may also be both contrary and favorable to morality. Manent, following Tocqueville, begins from the regime, the modern political regime par excellence, that is democracy, and in accord with the title of his book, Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy, he immediately raises the question of the naturalness of democracy.
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