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Intro -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Two-Man Research Machine -- The Case for a Joint Study -- A Brief Overview: Parallel Lives, Different Passions -- A Revisionist Approach to Aristocratic Liberalism -- Chapter 2: The Birth Pangs of American Democracy -- Preparation for America -- Democracy in America -- Tocqueville's Theoretical Background and Influences, Values, and Political Motives -- Beaumont's Impression of America and Marie -- Beaumont's Intellectual Influences -- Which Way for Democracy? -- Chapter 3: In Search of New Liberal Politics: Reconciling Equality with Liberty -- Tocqueville and Beaumont on Prison Reform -- Pauperism, Social Reform, Industrial Development -- England and Ireland: Opportunities and Limitations of English Liberalism -- Slavery, Abolition -- The Limits of Aristocratic Liberalism: Algeria and Empire -- Chapter 4: Republican by Necessity: The Revolution of 1848 and Beyond -- Reflecting on New Social Conditions and Challenging Political Times -- Tocqueville's Reasoning and Justification in Recollections -- L'Ancien Régime and the Revolution -- England Revisited, America Continued, and Switzerland, Germany and Russia Dismissed -- Icon Construction: How Beaumont Preserved Tocqueville's Legacy -- Beaumont's Letters from Cannes -- Beaumont's Memoir of Tocqueville -- Chapter 5: What Remains? -- Tocqueville's and Beaumont's Theoretical Journey -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Index

This is the first concise study to give full credit to the collaboration of works between French nobleman, writer and politician Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) and his travel companion and friend Gustave de Beaumont (1802-66), and puts this collaboration into its social, historical and theoretical context. It accompanies the two friends to the US and analyses the fruitful encounter between the New and the Old World that was the result of that journey, particularly in relation to emerging Atlantic democracies and revolutions. This includes the hopes but also the problems and contradictions that they have come to represent. The book also follows Tocqueville and Beaumont to England, Ireland, and Algeria. It discusses their political careers and their engagement in the abolitionist movement, their fight for liberal social and political reform, as well as their futile attempt to rationalize French colonization in Algeria.

Gesellschaftspolitisches Denken in den USADieses Buch bietet eine sehr klare, umfassende und systematische Einführung in die Theorie des Sozialen und des Politischen in den USA. In einem ersten Teil werden die Haupttraditionen des amerikanischen Denkens vorgestellt: Politische Theologie, Republikanismus, Liberalismus und Pragmatismus. Der zweite Teil behandelt die zentralen Grundprobleme der politischen Theorie der Gegenwart.Der InhaltZentrale Elemente des gesellschaftstheoretischen und politischen Denkens: Exeptionalismus, Politische Theologie, Republikanismus, Liberalismus, Pragmatismus - Moderne Gesellschaftstheorien und Politische Ideen: Demokratie und Macht, Gerechtigkeit und Ungerechtigkeit, Pluralismus und Multikulturalismus, Zivilgesellschaft - Gesellschaftstheorie und politisches Denken zu Beginn des 21.JahrhundertsZielgruppenPolitikwissenschaftler, Soziologen, Philosophen, HistorikerDer AutorAndreas Hess lehrt Soziologie am University College Dublin.

Klappentext: Three institutions that are of particular importance to Basque history and culture form the main subject of this book: the baserria (the Basque farmstead), the cofradía (the fraternity of fishermen) and the txoko (gastronomic society). In this study the three institutions are seen as windows; once we look through these windows, we get an opportunity to see the larger picture – namely the structural components of a rich plebeian culture and moral economy. While the investigation of baserri culture provides insights into Basque rural life and the radical changes that occurred with industrialization, the cofradía allows the reader to see the connection that the Basque Country has with the sea. The third institution, the txoko or sociedad gastronómica, represents a more recent and urban phenomenon and reflects an effort to come to terms with urbanization and the anonymous forms of modern life. The book closes with some reflections on cultures that have been somewhat reluctant to modernize.

1. Ausbildung in soziologischer Theorie und Methode (1939–1941/42) -- 1.1 Von Waco nach Austin -- 1.2 Von Austin nach Wisconsin -- 1.3 Die Dissertation: "A Sociological Account of Pragmatism" -- 1.4 Auseinandersetzung mit dem Nationalsozialismus und dem Zweiten Weltkrieg -- 1.5 Zusammenarbeit mit Hans Gerth -- 2. Empirische Forschung und Hinwendung zur Politischen Soziologie (1941/42–1955) -- 2.1 Von Washington D.C. nach New York -- 2.2 Empirische Forschung für das Bureau of Applied Social Research -- 2.3 "White Collar" -- 2.4 Hinwendung zur Politischen Soziologie -- 3. "Making History": Zwischen soziologischer Analyse und politischem Anspruch (1956–1962) -- 3.1 "The Power Elite" -- 3.2 Die Radikalisierung der Politischen Soziologie C. Wright Mills' -- 3.3 C. Wright Mills und die Neue Linke -- 3.4 C. Wright Mills und die 'Klassische Tradition' -- 3.5 Das unvollendete Werk -- 4. Die Politische Soziologie C. Wright Mills' -- 4.1 Exkurs: Zum Stand der Diskussion in der Politischen Soziologie -- 4.2 C. Wright Mills' Beitrag zur Politischen Soziologie.

In this paper the author takes issue with the notion of the Black Atlantic as discussed by the British scholar Paul Gilroy. While sympathising with the overall perspective it criticises Gilroy's uncritical, almost iconographic, approach to black intellectual celebrities such as W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James and particularly their discussion of Marxist tropes and communist politics.

In this paper the author takes issue with the notion of the Black Atlantic as discussed by the British scholar Paul Gilroy. While sympathising with the overall perspective it criticises Gilroy's uncritical, almost iconographic, approach to black intellectual celebrities such as W. E. B. Du Bois and C. L. R. James and particularly their discussion of Marxist tropes and communist politics.

This article discusses why the theme of exile, marginality and the role of outsiders occupied Judith N. Shklar and how it impacted on her teaching and writing. More specifically it draws on Shklar's last Harvard lectures and essays in which she reflects systematically on the questions of obligation and exile. It maintains that the relatively late turn towards exile is neither accident nor retrospective construction. Throughout her adult life Judith Shklar argued from a position of 'optimal marginality' – what has been called 'exile from exile' − that allowed her to situate and present herself simultaneously as an outsider and to present her political theory as a kind of pedagogic and maieutic discourse. This was a way of turning traumatic personal experiences into a creative academic performance marked by true intellectual curiosity.