Alan S Kahan
Biographic Data
| ID | 415856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan S Kahan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan S |
| FAMILY NAME | Kahan |
| SIGNATURE | KAHAN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida International University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3461-6260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Response to my Gentle Critics
The Currency of Politics: The Political Theory of Money from Aristotle to Keynes
Les conversations Tocqueville 5 e édition, 30 juin-1 er juillet 2023
Les Conversations Tocqueville se proposent de faire dialoguer ensemble des hommes politiques, des universitaires, des responsables de fondations, principalement européens et américains. Les Conversations 2023, fidèles au souci d’aborder les enjeux contemporains dans un esprit tocquevillien, ont porté sur l’Europe de demain : faut-il réarmer la démocratie ? La guerre en Ukraine a changé l’Europe. Le retour en force de l’impérialisme russe, la frag…
From Constant to Spencer: Two ethics of laissez-faire
Both Constant and Spencer are moralists who want to encourage individual human perfection. But for Constant, politics has moral value even in a laissez-faire state, whereas for Spencer political participation has no moral value in itself. For Constant, from a moral perspective the historical change from an ancient to a modern conception of liberty is not absolute, and he wishes to retain, in a subordinate role, certain aspects of ancient liberty …
The Effects of Capitalism on People, Personality and Culture: Introduction
The 19 essays in this collection present an international and pluridisciplinary approach to the relation between capitalism, personality and culture, from the eighteenth century to the present. In Part I: Capitalism and Social Thought, they look primarily at social and economic thought, and in Part II: Representations of Commerce and Capitalism, they examine film, theatre, music, television, and journalism. By treating perspectives as widely sepa…
And what if Tocqueville was wrong
What if Tocqueville was wrong and the coming of democracy was not a “Providential Fact” but a mere blip in humanity’s aristocratic history? What if the idea that all people are basically equal is already on its way out? Education was supposed to be the great equalizer, but now it divides the gentry from the plebs. The revolution in gender roles was supposed to be about greater equality, but the result of birth control pills and professional women…
Why Steve Bannon Is Not a Fascist
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
Freedom and greatness are inseparable qualities for Tocqueville, and religion in democratic society is essential for the preservation of both. Contrary to the predictions, hopes, or fears of many in his time, Tocqueville thought that religious belief was natural to democratic people and would not disappear. Religion checks and limits various tendencies in democracy, such as materialism and individualism, which otherwise would become exaggerated a…
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Alexis de Tocqueville on Religion in Democratic Societies
For Tocqueville, well-balanced souls were as important to freedom as a well-balanced constitution. Such spiritual checks and balances were essential, in his view, for the preservation of political freedom and individual human greatness. Religion was the prime source of such spiritual checks and balances, offering a parallel source for the checks and balances to democracy provided by secular mechanisms such as associations and self-interest well u…
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
The relationship between democracy and religion is as important today as it was in Alexis de Tocqueville’s time. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls is a ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy on one of today’s most crucial problems. A well-known Tocqueville scholar, Kahan shows how Tocqueville’s analysis of religion is simultaneously deeply rooted in his analysis of nin…
Democracy and higher education: A Tocquevillean debate
How does democracy shape higher education? What kind of education does a democratic citizenry need? These questions are at the heart of the current debate, raging on both sides of the Atlantic, about the future of the university and purpose of higher education. The focal point of this debate is the role of the humanities, often regarded as the core of the liberal arts curriculum, whose status as an essential part of university education has come …
Tocqueville and liberal education
Democracy and higher education: A Tocquevillean Debate
Democracy and higher education:A Tocquevillean Debate Ewa Atanassow (bio) and Alan Kahan (bio) How does democracy shape higher education? What kind of education does a democratic citizenry need? These questions are at the heart of the current debate, raging on both sides of the Atlantic, about the future of the university and the purpose of higher education. The focal point of this debate is the role of the humanities, often regarded as the core …
Arthur Kaledin. Tocqueville and His America: A Darker Horizon
As Arthur Kaledin describes it, his “book is a study of the character and thought of Alexis de Tocqueville. Its aim is to see how his life helps illuminate the meaning and the art of Democracy in America and account for his growing pessimism about the American future” (pp. xiii–xiv). The first half of the book is biographical. Part one discusses Tocqueville, the “triple-alienated man.” Part two, discussing Tocqueville's political career, is not m…
Max Weber and Warren Buffett: Looking for the Lost Charisma of Capitalism
Tocqueville and the French Revolution
T ocqueville U nveiled : T he H istorian and H is S ources for T he O ld R egime and the R evolution . By Robert T. Gannett Jr
Aristocracy in Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville is probably the best modern writer on the subject of democracy, and certainly the most quoted. But when Tocqueville writes about democracy, he never considers it in isolation. There is always a weight on the other side of the scales, even if it is invisible to the casual observer: aristocracy. Relatively little attention has been given to Tocqueville's understanding of aristocracy, or to his views about how aristocratie elem…
Western intellectuals and commercial society
Julia Stapleton , Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain since 1850 (Manchester: (Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. x + 220
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The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume II: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text
This is the first complete and accurate English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic study of the French Revolution, *The Old Regime and the Revolution*. Tocqueville's great work of historical interpretation, first published in 1856, is here presented in a fresh and accessible translation by Alan S. Kahan, based on the definitive French edition. Kahan also provides an introduction, chronology, notes, and index. Tocqueville's masterpiece…
Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised, by Harvey Mitchell
"Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised, by Harvey Mitchell." Canadian Journal of History, 32(2), pp. 261–262
Interpreting Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Aristocratic liberalism: The social and political thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville
Liberalism and Realpolitik 1830-52: The Case of in Prussia, David Hansemann
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
The relationship between democracy and religion is as important today as it was in Alexis de Tocqueville’s time. Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls is a ground-breaking study of the views of the greatest theorist of democracy on one of today’s most crucial problems. A well-known Tocqueville scholar, Kahan shows how Tocqueville’s analysis of religion is simultaneously deeply rooted in his analysis of nin…
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Alexis de Tocqueville on Religion in Democratic Societies
For Tocqueville, well-balanced souls were as important to freedom as a well-balanced constitution. Such spiritual checks and balances were essential, in his view, for the preservation of political freedom and individual human greatness. Religion was the prime source of such spiritual checks and balances, offering a parallel source for the checks and balances to democracy provided by secular mechanisms such as associations and self-interest well u…
Aristocracy in Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville is probably the best modern writer on the subject of democracy, and certainly the most quoted. But when Tocqueville writes about democracy, he never considers it in isolation. There is always a weight on the other side of the scales, even if it is invisible to the casual observer: aristocracy. Relatively little attention has been given to Tocqueville's understanding of aristocracy, or to his views about how aristocratie elem…
Tocqueville's Two Revolutions
It is a matter of consensus that Alexis de Tocqueville remains one of the most interesting and important writers on the French Revolution. Yet most scholars would find it difficult to agree about how Tocqueville understands the Revolution. Tocqueville is a subtle and complex thinker. To contemplate his work is to reveal the hidden tensions that lie beneath its seemingly transparent surface. The task of understanding his thoughts about the Revolut…
Why Steve Bannon Is Not a Fascist
Tocqueville and liberal education
A Note on Estimates of Soviet Grain Output, 1934-38
European Socialism: A History of Ideas and Movements from the Industrial Revolution to Hitler's Seizure of Power, Vol. I: From the Industrial Revolution to the First World War and Its Aftermath; Vol. …
Tocqueville's Two Revolutions
It is a matter of consensus that Alexis de Tocqueville remains one of the most interesting and important writers on the French Revolution. Yet most scholars would find it difficult to agree about how Tocqueville understands the Revolution. Tocqueville is a subtle and complex thinker. To contemplate his work is to reveal the hidden tensions that lie beneath its seemingly transparent surface. The task of understanding his thoughts about the Revolut…
The Two Tocquevilles, Father and Son: Herve and Alexis de Tocqueville on the Coming of the French Revolution . R. R. Palmer
The Victory of German Liberalism? Rudolf Haym, Liberalism, and Bismarck
The vague figure of Rudolf Haym, founding editor of the Preussische jahrbücher , hovers hazily in the background of many discussions of nineteenth-century German Liberalism. He has been relegated to obscurity by more forceful and impressive personalities: Dahlmann, Gervinus, and Hansemann in 1848, Max Duncker and Georg von Vincke in the 1850s and 1860s, Treitschke and Mommsen in the 1860s and 1870s, to name a few. Yet in a long career whose accom…
Alexis de Tocqueville: Threats to Freedom in Democracy. Michael Hereth , George Bogardus
Geschichtsinteresse und historischer Diskurs: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der franzosischen Geschichtswissenschaft im 19. Jahrhundert . Ursula A. J. Becher
Liberalism and Realpolitik 1830-52: The Case of in Prussia, David Hansemann
Liberalism and Realpolitik in Prussia, 1830-52: The Case of David Hansemann
Aristocratic liberalism: The social and political thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville
Interpreting Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised, by Harvey Mitchell
"Individual Choice and the Structures of History: Alexis de Tocqueville as Historian Reappraised, by Harvey Mitchell." Canadian Journal of History, 32(2), pp. 261–262
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume I: The Complete Text
This is the first complete and accurate English translation of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic study of the French Revolution, *The Old Regime and the Revolution*. Tocqueville's great work of historical interpretation, first published in 1856, is here presented in a fresh and accessible translation by Alan S. Kahan, based on the definitive French edition. Kahan also provides an introduction, chronology, notes, and index. Tocqueville's masterpiece…
The Old Regime and the Revolution, Volume II: Notes on the French Revolution and Napoleon
Julia Stapleton , Political Intellectuals and Public Identities in Britain since 1850 (Manchester: (Manchester University Press, 2001), pp. x + 220
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Tocqueville and the French Revolution
T ocqueville U nveiled : T he H istorian and H is S ources for T he O ld R egime and the R evolution . By Robert T. Gannett Jr
Aristocracy in Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville is probably the best modern writer on the subject of democracy, and certainly the most quoted. But when Tocqueville writes about democracy, he never considers it in isolation. There is always a weight on the other side of the scales, even if it is invisible to the casual observer: aristocracy. Relatively little attention has been given to Tocqueville's understanding of aristocracy, or to his views about how aristocratie elem…
Western intellectuals and commercial society
Arthur Kaledin. Tocqueville and His America: A Darker Horizon
As Arthur Kaledin describes it, his “book is a study of the character and thought of Alexis de Tocqueville. Its aim is to see how his life helps illuminate the meaning and the art of Democracy in America and account for his growing pessimism about the American future” (pp. xiii–xiv). The first half of the book is biographical. Part one discusses Tocqueville, the “triple-alienated man.” Part two, discussing Tocqueville's political career, is not m…
Max Weber and Warren Buffett: Looking for the Lost Charisma of Capitalism
Democracy and higher education: A Tocquevillean debate
How does democracy shape higher education? What kind of education does a democratic citizenry need? These questions are at the heart of the current debate, raging on both sides of the Atlantic, about the future of the university and purpose of higher education. The focal point of this debate is the role of the humanities, often regarded as the core of the liberal arts curriculum, whose status as an essential part of university education has come …
Tocqueville and liberal education
Democracy and higher education: A Tocquevillean Debate
Democracy and higher education:A Tocquevillean Debate Ewa Atanassow (bio) and Alan Kahan (bio) How does democracy shape higher education? What kind of education does a democratic citizenry need? These questions are at the heart of the current debate, raging on both sides of the Atlantic, about the future of the university and the purpose of higher education. The focal point of this debate is the role of the humanities, often regarded as the core …
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls
Freedom and greatness are inseparable qualities for Tocqueville, and religion in democratic society is essential for the preservation of both. Contrary to the predictions, hopes, or fears of many in his time, Tocqueville thought that religious belief was natural to democratic people and would not disappear. Religion checks and limits various tendencies in democracy, such as materialism and individualism, which otherwise would become exaggerated a…
Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls: Alexis de Tocqueville on Religion in Democratic Societies
For Tocqueville, well-balanced souls were as important to freedom as a well-balanced constitution. Such spiritual checks and balances were essential, in his view, for the preservation of political freedom and individual human greatness. Religion was the prime source of such spiritual checks and balances, offering a parallel source for the checks and balances to democracy provided by secular mechanisms such as associations and self-interest well u…
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