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Tocqueville between two worlds
Colloque organisé par l'Institute of French Studies of New York University
sur le dernier ouvrage de Sheldon S. Wolin, professeur émérite d'histoire à Princeton.
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Published on jeudi, mars 28, 2002
Summary
The institute of French Studies of New York University presents a colloquium on
Sheldon S. Wolin's Tocqueville: Between Two Worlds
Friday, April 19, 2002
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
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Announcement
The institute of French Studies of New York University presents a colloquium on
Sheldon S. Wolin's Tocqueville: Between Two Worlds
Friday, April 19, 2002
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
Sheldon Wolin, professor emeritus from Princeton, is one of this country's most important political theorists. His new book, Tocqueville: Between Two Worlds. the making of a political and theoretical life (Princeton, 2001), is the fruit of several decades of work and makes a fundamental contribution to democratic theory and to our knowledge of the origins and development of liberalism. The IFS colloquium on Wolin's book brings together leading French and American political scientists, historians, and literary scholars who are themselves top experts on Tocqueville's thought. They will spend the day discussing various aspects of Wolin's work and the issues it raises. Sheldon Wolin will then respond to the various commentaries. This event will be of particular interest to European studies specialists, political theorists, and historians.
Participants will include:
Joyce Appleby (UCLA)
Does It Matter that Toqueville Got Some Things Wrong?
Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh)
Who Needs Aristocracy? Tocqueville's "ancienneté"
Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard University)
Mixing, Intermingling, Coalescing: Concepts of Identity and Difference in Tocqueville's Tought
Francoise Melonio (Paris 4 - Sorbonne)
Politics of Loss
Melvin Richter (CUNY - Hunter College)
Framing Tocqueville: Interpretative Strategies and Political Intervention in Wolin's Study
Cheryl Welch (Harvard University)
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: France and Algeria
Olivier Zunz (University of Virginia)
Tocqueville's Project and Wolin's Project
and Sheldon S. Wolin (UCLA)
Defending 'Two Worlds'
For more information, please call (212) 998-8740
Sheldon S. Wolin's Tocqueville: Between Two Worlds
Friday, April 19, 2002
9 a.m. - 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m.
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
Sheldon Wolin, professor emeritus from Princeton, is one of this country's most important political theorists. His new book, Tocqueville: Between Two Worlds. the making of a political and theoretical life (Princeton, 2001), is the fruit of several decades of work and makes a fundamental contribution to democratic theory and to our knowledge of the origins and development of liberalism. The IFS colloquium on Wolin's book brings together leading French and American political scientists, historians, and literary scholars who are themselves top experts on Tocqueville's thought. They will spend the day discussing various aspects of Wolin's work and the issues it raises. Sheldon Wolin will then respond to the various commentaries. This event will be of particular interest to European studies specialists, political theorists, and historians.
Participants will include:
Joyce Appleby (UCLA)
Does It Matter that Toqueville Got Some Things Wrong?
Seymour Drescher (University of Pittsburgh)
Who Needs Aristocracy? Tocqueville's "ancienneté"
Arthur Goldhammer (Harvard University)
Mixing, Intermingling, Coalescing: Concepts of Identity and Difference in Tocqueville's Tought
Francoise Melonio (Paris 4 - Sorbonne)
Politics of Loss
Melvin Richter (CUNY - Hunter College)
Framing Tocqueville: Interpretative Strategies and Political Intervention in Wolin's Study
Cheryl Welch (Harvard University)
Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: France and Algeria
Olivier Zunz (University of Virginia)
Tocqueville's Project and Wolin's Project
and Sheldon S. Wolin (UCLA)
Defending 'Two Worlds'
For more information, please call (212) 998-8740
Places
- New York (USA)
New York, America
Date(s)
- vendredi, avril 19, 2002
Keywords
- Tocqueville
Contact(s)
- Jasmine El-Yabouri
courriel : jey1 [at] nyu [dot] edu
Information source
- Jasmine El-Yabouri
courriel : jey1 [at] nyu [dot] edu
To cite this announcement
« Tocqueville between two worlds », Conference, symposium, Calenda, Published on jeudi, mars 28, 2002, https://calenda-formation.labocleo.org/187098
