PLSC 114: Introduction to Political Philosophy
Lecture 21 - Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America. With the emergence of democracies in Europe and the New World at the beginning of the nineteenth century, political philosophers began to re-evaluate the relationship between freedom and equality. Tocqueville, in particular, saw the creation of new forms of social power that presented threats to human liberty. His most famous work, Democracy in America, was written for his French countrymen who were still devoted to the restoration of the monarchy and whom Tocqueville wanted to convince that the democratic social revolution he had witnessed in America was equally representative of France's future. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 21 - Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Tocqueville's Problem |
| [00:08:36] | 2. Who Was Alexis de Tocqueville? |
| [00:14:04] | 3. Democracy in America and the Letter to Kergolay |
| [00:35:46] | 4. The Characteristics of American Democracy: Importance of Local Government |
| References |
| Lecture 21 - Democratic Statecraft: Tocqueville's Democracy in America Instructor: Professor Steven B. Smith. Resources: Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America [ebook]. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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