Cheryl B Welch
Biographic Data
| ID | 445593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cheryl B Welch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cheryl B |
| FAMILY NAME | Welch |
| SIGNATURE | WELCH C B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Simmons University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4646-1289 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An Immunity to Authoritarianism? Bagehot, Bryce, and Ostrogorski on the Risk of Caesarism in America
Reflections on Melvin Richter’s Tocqueville and the Two Napoleons
This essay explores the significance of Napoleon for contemporary history and public affairs by reflecting on the career of Melvin Richter (1921-2020) and his forthcoming Tocqueville and the Two Napoleons. Richter maintains that Tocqueville’s ever-deepening analysis of the Napoleonic model, a new and sinister form of the administrative state, achieved dystopian dimensions in his thought and serves as an important thread by which we can re-assess …
Tocqueville’s New Political Science in the Shadow of the Old
This article explicates Tocqueville’s famous assertion that “a new political science is needed for a world entirely new” by drawing a contrast with the old political science to be superseded. Part One establishes the evidence, contextual and textual, for the claim that the old political science to which Tocqueville refers is the Enlightenment project as interpreted by the self-proclaimed heirs of the philosophes in the revolutionary generation: t…
Thinking with Raymond Aron and Stanley Hoffmann
This issue of The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville (vol. XXXIX- n° 2-2018) is dedicated to two men, Raymond Aron and Stanley Hoffmann, who embodied the transatlantic intellectual ethos—and especially the Franco-American connection—that has marked the journal for a half century. In their attempts to define and criticize the theory and practice of international relations, both worked at the intersection of political science, history, sociolo…
Tocqueville’s Recollections in Trump’s America. Review of
Enlightenment and Utility
An impressive addition to the Cambridge University Press ‘Ideas in Context’ series, Emmanuelle de Champs’ Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in French, Bentham in France gives us a Bentham who is both familiar and strange. This new French Bentham guides us through a transatlantic matrix of utilitarian liberal reform ideas that began in the eighteenth century, spanned the French Revolution and dissipated only in the mid-nineteenth century. Fluent …
The Receptions of Elie Halevy’s La Formation Du Radicalisme Philosophique in England and France
That Elie Halévy's The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism is a classic text of history and theory is a judgment repeated too often to be in doubt. But what makes it a classic? The most obvious sign—that it is widely recommended as a standard work in its field generations after its publication—raises the question of why and how a text becomes a leading work or “master” piece. Literary classics are sometimes said to fuse style, substance, and signi…
Une société civilisée et religieuse
Une société civilisée et religieuse: Postrevolutionary French liberalism and the character of Europe Cheryl B. Welch (bio) In nineteenth-century Europe there was a growing perception that the peoples within its borders exhibited distinctive “âmes nationales.” This forum attests to the many ways in which the idea of national character was theorized and debated from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, especially in relation to dem…
Une société civilisée et religieuse »
In nineteenth-century Europe there was a growing perception that the peoples within its borders exhibited distinctive “âmes nationales.” This forum attests to the many ways in which the idea of national character was theorized and debated from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, especially in relation to democracy and liberalism. At the same time, however, Europe itself was emerging as an increasingly singular space. Indeed, the…
The Chicago companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (review)
Reviewed by: The Chicago companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Cheryl B. Welch (bio) James T. Schleifer, The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. In the classic film, Born Yesterday, a wealthy but unscrupulous businessman hires a smart newspaper reporter to tutor his ditzy mistress in proper etiquette. But she learns more than manners, eventually coming to reject the po…
The Chicago companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Out of Africa
As Tocqueville’s writings on empire have become more available in translation, and as both Anglophone and Francophone political theorists have begun to grapple with the transnational aspects of democratic theory, scholars have increasingly puzzled over the apparent dissonance between Tocqueville’s liberal and imperial voices. How can his dedication to human freedom co-exist with his embrace of permanent colonial domination in Algeria? This essay …
Half Yankee Travelers
Half Yankee Travelers:Tocqueville and Beaumont In America Cheryl B. Welch (bio) Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels. Edited by Olivier Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Charlottesville, VA: The University of Virginia Press, 2010. 696 pp. Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters from America. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. …
Les injustices révoltantes
Les injustices révoltantes:Gustave de Beaumont and the Pre-history of Crimes Against Humanity Cheryl B. Welch (bio) Forty years ago, Seymour Drescher argued persuasively that Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont drew throughout their public and intellectual careers on a mutual fund of research, notes, and conversations.1 Beyond Tocqueville's undisputed superiority as thinker and writer, however, there remained important differences betwe…
Les injustices révoltantes
Forty years ago, Seymour Drescher argued persuasively that Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont drew throughout their public and intellectual careers on a mutual fund of research, notes, and conversations. Beyond Tocqueville’s undisputed superiority as thinker and writer, however, there remained important differences between them. If Tocqueville was the anthropologist of modem equality, Beaumont was the horrified observer of unjust inequ…
Une critique républicaine de la démocratie libérale de Arnaud Coutant
Tocqueville on Democracy after Abolition
In his legislative career, Alexis de Tocqueville felt most comfortable in the role of parliamentary expert who rose above party, who kept his eyes on the distant prize of democratic liberty even as he navigated the practical obstacles to social reform
Tocqueville's resistance to the social
This essay examines Tocqueville's conception of the “social” against the background of debates over the relationship between the social and the political in France from the Revolution to mid-century. It focuses on three groups: those associated with the social philosophy of industrialisme, those concerned with the evils of pauperism from the standpoint of Catholic social reform, and those allied with the new Doctrinaire view of society and politi…
Colonial Violence And The Rhetoric Of Evasion
Tocqueville’s contradictory writings on imperialism have produced interpretations that range from unrepentant realism to lapsed universalism. This essay considers the moral psychology that underlies his position. It argues that Tocqueville’s writings on colonialism exemplify his resort to apologia when his deepest apprehensions are aroused and offers a typology of Tocquevillean rhetorical evasions: the mechanisms by which he attempts to quell per…
A New Democracy in America
In considering the complex relationship between author and translator, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop observe with insight that all translators of texts—we might add readers of texts—are ultimately unable to ignore what they think they know.1 Inevitably my response to their work is shaped by what I think I know about Tocqueville—and like Professors Richter and Drescher—what I think I know about his context and intended audience. Although Man…
Tocqueville and the French
For contemporary political theorists, the events of nineteenth-century France – the "bourgeois" revolution of 1830, the revolutionary eruption of 1848 with its dénouement in Bonapartism, and the "heroic" moment of the Paris Commune – have entered the domain of reflection on modern politics through Marx. Not only for Marxists, but for those who learned political theory in a Marxist tradition or whose primary acquaintance with nineteenth-century Fr…
Liberty and Utility, the French Ideologues and the Transformation of Liberalism
Liberty and Utility
Offers an interpretation of the social and political ideas associated with the loosely defined group of theorists and publicists who dominated the intellectual life of France during the later stages of the Revolution and early years of the 19th century, and uses the theory of the Ideologues to illuminate the more general issue of how and why the fusion of utility, liberty, and democracy developed in the language of political theorizing.
Colonial Violence And The Rhetoric Of Evasion
Tocqueville’s contradictory writings on imperialism have produced interpretations that range from unrepentant realism to lapsed universalism. This essay considers the moral psychology that underlies his position. It argues that Tocqueville’s writings on colonialism exemplify his resort to apologia when his deepest apprehensions are aroused and offers a typology of Tocquevillean rhetorical evasions: the mechanisms by which he attempts to quell per…
Tocqueville's resistance to the social
This essay examines Tocqueville's conception of the “social” against the background of debates over the relationship between the social and the political in France from the Revolution to mid-century. It focuses on three groups: those associated with the social philosophy of industrialisme, those concerned with the evils of pauperism from the standpoint of Catholic social reform, and those allied with the new Doctrinaire view of society and politi…
The Receptions of Elie Halevy’s La Formation Du Radicalisme Philosophique in England and France
That Elie Halévy's The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism is a classic text of history and theory is a judgment repeated too often to be in doubt. But what makes it a classic? The most obvious sign—that it is widely recommended as a standard work in its field generations after its publication—raises the question of why and how a text becomes a leading work or “master” piece. Literary classics are sometimes said to fuse style, substance, and signi…
Tocqueville on Democracy after Abolition
In his legislative career, Alexis de Tocqueville felt most comfortable in the role of parliamentary expert who rose above party, who kept his eyes on the distant prize of democratic liberty even as he navigated the practical obstacles to social reform
An Immunity to Authoritarianism? Bagehot, Bryce, and Ostrogorski on the Risk of Caesarism in America
Tocqueville’s New Political Science in the Shadow of the Old
This article explicates Tocqueville’s famous assertion that “a new political science is needed for a world entirely new” by drawing a contrast with the old political science to be superseded. Part One establishes the evidence, contextual and textual, for the claim that the old political science to which Tocqueville refers is the Enlightenment project as interpreted by the self-proclaimed heirs of the philosophes in the revolutionary generation: t…
Liberty and Utility
Offers an interpretation of the social and political ideas associated with the loosely defined group of theorists and publicists who dominated the intellectual life of France during the later stages of the Revolution and early years of the 19th century, and uses the theory of the Ideologues to illuminate the more general issue of how and why the fusion of utility, liberty, and democracy developed in the language of political theorizing.
Liberty and Utility, the French Ideologues and the Transformation of Liberalism
Tocqueville and the French
For contemporary political theorists, the events of nineteenth-century France – the "bourgeois" revolution of 1830, the revolutionary eruption of 1848 with its dénouement in Bonapartism, and the "heroic" moment of the Paris Commune – have entered the domain of reflection on modern politics through Marx. Not only for Marxists, but for those who learned political theory in a Marxist tradition or whose primary acquaintance with nineteenth-century Fr…
Colonial Violence And The Rhetoric Of Evasion
Tocqueville’s contradictory writings on imperialism have produced interpretations that range from unrepentant realism to lapsed universalism. This essay considers the moral psychology that underlies his position. It argues that Tocqueville’s writings on colonialism exemplify his resort to apologia when his deepest apprehensions are aroused and offers a typology of Tocquevillean rhetorical evasions: the mechanisms by which he attempts to quell per…
A New Democracy in America
In considering the complex relationship between author and translator, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop observe with insight that all translators of texts—we might add readers of texts—are ultimately unable to ignore what they think they know.1 Inevitably my response to their work is shaped by what I think I know about Tocqueville—and like Professors Richter and Drescher—what I think I know about his context and intended audience. Although Man…
Tocqueville's resistance to the social
This essay examines Tocqueville's conception of the “social” against the background of debates over the relationship between the social and the political in France from the Revolution to mid-century. It focuses on three groups: those associated with the social philosophy of industrialisme, those concerned with the evils of pauperism from the standpoint of Catholic social reform, and those allied with the new Doctrinaire view of society and politi…
Tocqueville on Democracy after Abolition
In his legislative career, Alexis de Tocqueville felt most comfortable in the role of parliamentary expert who rose above party, who kept his eyes on the distant prize of democratic liberty even as he navigated the practical obstacles to social reform
Une critique républicaine de la démocratie libérale de Arnaud Coutant
Les injustices révoltantes
Les injustices révoltantes:Gustave de Beaumont and the Pre-history of Crimes Against Humanity Cheryl B. Welch (bio) Forty years ago, Seymour Drescher argued persuasively that Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont drew throughout their public and intellectual careers on a mutual fund of research, notes, and conversations.1 Beyond Tocqueville's undisputed superiority as thinker and writer, however, there remained important differences betwe…
Les injustices révoltantes
Forty years ago, Seymour Drescher argued persuasively that Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont drew throughout their public and intellectual careers on a mutual fund of research, notes, and conversations. Beyond Tocqueville’s undisputed superiority as thinker and writer, however, there remained important differences between them. If Tocqueville was the anthropologist of modem equality, Beaumont was the horrified observer of unjust inequ…
Out of Africa
As Tocqueville’s writings on empire have become more available in translation, and as both Anglophone and Francophone political theorists have begun to grapple with the transnational aspects of democratic theory, scholars have increasingly puzzled over the apparent dissonance between Tocqueville’s liberal and imperial voices. How can his dedication to human freedom co-exist with his embrace of permanent colonial domination in Algeria? This essay …
Half Yankee Travelers
Half Yankee Travelers:Tocqueville and Beaumont In America Cheryl B. Welch (bio) Alexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont in America: Their Friendship and Their Travels. Edited by Olivier Zunz, translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Charlottesville, VA: The University of Virginia Press, 2010. 696 pp. Alexis de Tocqueville: Letters from America. Edited, translated, and with an introduction by Frederick Brown. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010. …
The Chicago companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (review)
Reviewed by: The Chicago companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America Cheryl B. Welch (bio) James T. Schleifer, The Chicago Companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. In the classic film, Born Yesterday, a wealthy but unscrupulous businessman hires a smart newspaper reporter to tutor his ditzy mistress in proper etiquette. But she learns more than manners, eventually coming to reject the po…
The Chicago companion to Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
The Receptions of Elie Halevy’s La Formation Du Radicalisme Philosophique in England and France
That Elie Halévy's The Growth of Philosophical Radicalism is a classic text of history and theory is a judgment repeated too often to be in doubt. But what makes it a classic? The most obvious sign—that it is widely recommended as a standard work in its field generations after its publication—raises the question of why and how a text becomes a leading work or “master” piece. Literary classics are sometimes said to fuse style, substance, and signi…
Une société civilisée et religieuse
Une société civilisée et religieuse: Postrevolutionary French liberalism and the character of Europe Cheryl B. Welch (bio) In nineteenth-century Europe there was a growing perception that the peoples within its borders exhibited distinctive “âmes nationales.” This forum attests to the many ways in which the idea of national character was theorized and debated from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, especially in relation to dem…
Une société civilisée et religieuse »
In nineteenth-century Europe there was a growing perception that the peoples within its borders exhibited distinctive “âmes nationales.” This forum attests to the many ways in which the idea of national character was theorized and debated from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, especially in relation to democracy and liberalism. At the same time, however, Europe itself was emerging as an increasingly singular space. Indeed, the…
Enlightenment and Utility
An impressive addition to the Cambridge University Press ‘Ideas in Context’ series, Emmanuelle de Champs’ Enlightenment and Utility: Bentham in French, Bentham in France gives us a Bentham who is both familiar and strange. This new French Bentham guides us through a transatlantic matrix of utilitarian liberal reform ideas that began in the eighteenth century, spanned the French Revolution and dissipated only in the mid-nineteenth century. Fluent …
Tocqueville’s Recollections in Trump’s America. Review of
Thinking with Raymond Aron and Stanley Hoffmann
This issue of The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville (vol. XXXIX- n° 2-2018) is dedicated to two men, Raymond Aron and Stanley Hoffmann, who embodied the transatlantic intellectual ethos—and especially the Franco-American connection—that has marked the journal for a half century. In their attempts to define and criticize the theory and practice of international relations, both worked at the intersection of political science, history, sociolo…
Tocqueville’s New Political Science in the Shadow of the Old
This article explicates Tocqueville’s famous assertion that “a new political science is needed for a world entirely new” by drawing a contrast with the old political science to be superseded. Part One establishes the evidence, contextual and textual, for the claim that the old political science to which Tocqueville refers is the Enlightenment project as interpreted by the self-proclaimed heirs of the philosophes in the revolutionary generation: t…
Reflections on Melvin Richter’s Tocqueville and the Two Napoleons
This essay explores the significance of Napoleon for contemporary history and public affairs by reflecting on the career of Melvin Richter (1921-2020) and his forthcoming Tocqueville and the Two Napoleons. Richter maintains that Tocqueville’s ever-deepening analysis of the Napoleonic model, a new and sinister form of the administrative state, achieved dystopian dimensions in his thought and serves as an important thread by which we can re-assess …
An Immunity to Authoritarianism? Bagehot, Bryce, and Ostrogorski on the Risk of Caesarism in America
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