Tocqueville as a Historian and Politician

amir seyyed fathollah shirazi, a physician, historian and politician in indian mughal empire (gūrkān) court

amir seyyed fathollah shirazi, a physician, historian and politician of indian mughal empire court, was one of the scholars of shiraz. initially, he served as a teacher at mansurieh school in shiraz. he worked for imamgholi mirza, the brother of king ismaeil ii, from safavid dynasty. after killing imamgholi mirza, by the order of the king, he went to india following the invitation of the muslim...

Paolo Sylos Labini as a historian of economics

Hero or Cunning Politician ?

Ú ̆ ‰ ‡ Ï , È Â ‡ · was an active, if not the most active, character throughout „ Â „ ’s reign. However, the character of È Â ‡ · and his brothers is foggy and puzzling. Although many of us have been taught to classify figures in Tanach into the roles of either ¢ ˆ „ È ̃ ¢ or ¢ ̄ ̆ Ú ¢ to further our understanding of the manifest context © Ù ̆ Ë ® and latent meaning © „ ̄ ̆ ® of the text, È Â ‡ · and ...

: Tocqueville between Two Worlds

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The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, Vol. XXVII, n° 2 – 2006 TOCQUEVILLE’S TWO FORMS OF ASSOCIATION: INTERPRETING TOCQUEVILLE AND DEBATES OVER CIVIL SOCIETY TODAY

The theoretical importance of Tocqueville’s writing about America can be summed up this phrase: Democracy depends on many things besides voting. In this way, he turned Aristotle’s merely political definition on its head, and provided a conceptual translation of what democratic activists, and republican political theorists, had long understood. It is a lesson, I believe, to which many contempora...