Delba Winthrop
Biographic Data
| ID | 445879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Delba Winthrop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Delba |
| FAMILY NAME | Winthrop |
| SIGNATURE | WINTHROP D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 204 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Tocqueville's Machiavellianism
Tocqueville's sole reference to Machiavelli in Democracy in America is a nicely located misquotation. This article makes much of it, more than one would likely think possible. Tocqueville's mission was to replace Machiavelli in his role of captain-philosopher and to save the aristocratic element in democracy that Machiavelli believed should be dispensed with
Democracy in America
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Aristotle'sPolitics, Book I
Modern science, particularly Thomas Hobbes, begins with a broad attack on Aristotle intended to replace "Aristotelity" in the universities. This attack, however, was superficial and never properly reconsidered when Hobbes and his cohort were in turn superseded. The connection between politics and nature deserves a reconsideration and receives it in this article on Book I of Aristotle's Politics. The author adopts Hobbes' assertion that Aristotle'…
Reply to Our Critics
Books in review
Democracy in America
Journal Article Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and ed. by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xcii, 722 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-80532-8.) Get access Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages …
What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today
"Russell Baker once said that in our time people cite Tocqueville without reading \nhim even more than they do the Bibie and Shakespeare. Every American president \nsińce Eisenhower has ąuoted him, no doubt without reading him, and some of our \nprofessors, to say nothing of other citizens, have picked up their habit of fishing for \nwhat they like, and throwing back the rest, in Tocqueville’s great work Democracy \nin America."(...)
Democracy in America
Translating Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Don Quixote compares reading a translation to looking at a tapestry from the back: the outline is dear but the lines are blurred. Any translator knows that he works in the element of imperfection, and the making of our new translation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America has left us vividly aware of this fact of life (for life, too, is like the back of a tapestry)
"Comments on Schneck's Reading of Tocqueville's "Democracy
Tocqueville's American Woman and “The True Conception of Democratic Progress
For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman hardly leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And now that I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the singular prosperity and growing power of this people, I should answer t…
Tocqueville's Old Regime
It has been said of Alexis de Tocqueville that he is the most frequently quoted and least read author of all, rivaling and surpassing even William Shakespeare for this dubious honor. Virtually every American social scientist who as much as pays lip service to tradition manages to quote Tocqueville at least once. But this deference is to the author of Democracy in America , not of The Old Regime and the Revolution , for the latter book is, with th…
Aristotle on Participatory Democracy
The nature and role of political participation have in recent years been the center of discussion with reference to both the American system of government and the more general concepts of political science. The patent indifference of the Founding Fathers of the American republic to participatory democracy seems to have left them open to the charge of undemocratic tendencies. This article argues that such criticism ignores the more basic question …
Aristotle and Theories of Justice
Today it is all the rage for political theorists and even philosophers to have theories of justice. Looking back on the history of political thought, we cannot help but notice that not all previous philosophers have taken justice and theories of justice so seriously. Among those who did not was Aristotle. To be sure, he had a theory of justice, and from this fact we might infer that he thought it necessary to have one. But I shall presently argue…
Tocqueville on Federalism
Journal Article Tocqueville on Federalism Get access Delba Winthrop Delba Winthrop University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 6, Issue 3, Summer 1976, Pages 93–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038408 Published: 01 January 1976
Aristotle and Political Responsibility
Democracy in America
Aristotle and Theories of Justice
Today it is all the rage for political theorists and even philosophers to have theories of justice. Looking back on the history of political thought, we cannot help but notice that not all previous philosophers have taken justice and theories of justice so seriously. Among those who did not was Aristotle. To be sure, he had a theory of justice, and from this fact we might infer that he thought it necessary to have one. But I shall presently argue…
Tocqueville's American Woman and “The True Conception of Democratic Progress
For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman hardly leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And now that I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the singular prosperity and growing power of this people, I should answer t…
Aristotle on Participatory Democracy
The nature and role of political participation have in recent years been the center of discussion with reference to both the American system of government and the more general concepts of political science. The patent indifference of the Founding Fathers of the American republic to participatory democracy seems to have left them open to the charge of undemocratic tendencies. This article argues that such criticism ignores the more basic question …
Aristotle and Political Responsibility
Tocqueville on Federalism
Journal Article Tocqueville on Federalism Get access Delba Winthrop Delba Winthrop University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 6, Issue 3, Summer 1976, Pages 93–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038408 Published: 01 January 1976
Tocqueville's Machiavellianism
Tocqueville's sole reference to Machiavelli in Democracy in America is a nicely located misquotation. This article makes much of it, more than one would likely think possible. Tocqueville's mission was to replace Machiavelli in his role of captain-philosopher and to save the aristocratic element in democracy that Machiavelli believed should be dispensed with
Books in review
Democracy in America
Journal Article Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and ed. by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xcii, 722 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-80532-8.) Get access Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages …
Tocqueville's Old Regime
It has been said of Alexis de Tocqueville that he is the most frequently quoted and least read author of all, rivaling and surpassing even William Shakespeare for this dubious honor. Virtually every American social scientist who as much as pays lip service to tradition manages to quote Tocqueville at least once. But this deference is to the author of Democracy in America , not of The Old Regime and the Revolution , for the latter book is, with th…
Aristotle and Political Responsibility
Tocqueville on Federalism
Journal Article Tocqueville on Federalism Get access Delba Winthrop Delba Winthrop University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Publius: The Journal of Federalism, Volume 6, Issue 3, Summer 1976, Pages 93–115, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a038408 Published: 01 January 1976
Aristotle on Participatory Democracy
The nature and role of political participation have in recent years been the center of discussion with reference to both the American system of government and the more general concepts of political science. The patent indifference of the Founding Fathers of the American republic to participatory democracy seems to have left them open to the charge of undemocratic tendencies. This article argues that such criticism ignores the more basic question …
Aristotle and Theories of Justice
Today it is all the rage for political theorists and even philosophers to have theories of justice. Looking back on the history of political thought, we cannot help but notice that not all previous philosophers have taken justice and theories of justice so seriously. Among those who did not was Aristotle. To be sure, he had a theory of justice, and from this fact we might infer that he thought it necessary to have one. But I shall presently argue…
Tocqueville's Old Regime
It has been said of Alexis de Tocqueville that he is the most frequently quoted and least read author of all, rivaling and surpassing even William Shakespeare for this dubious honor. Virtually every American social scientist who as much as pays lip service to tradition manages to quote Tocqueville at least once. But this deference is to the author of Democracy in America , not of The Old Regime and the Revolution , for the latter book is, with th…
Tocqueville's American Woman and “The True Conception of Democratic Progress
For my part, I have no hesitation in saying that although the American woman hardly leaves her domestic sphere and is in some respects very dependent within it, nowhere does she enjoy a higher station. And now that I come near the end of this book in which I have recorded so many considerable achievements of the Americans, if anyone asks me what I think the chief cause of the singular prosperity and growing power of this people, I should answer t…
"Comments on Schneck's Reading of Tocqueville's "Democracy
Democracy in America
Translating Tocqueville’s Democracy in America
Don Quixote compares reading a translation to looking at a tapestry from the back: the outline is dear but the lines are blurred. Any translator knows that he works in the element of imperfection, and the making of our new translation of Tocqueville's Democracy in America has left us vividly aware of this fact of life (for life, too, is like the back of a tapestry)
Democracy in America
Journal Article Democracy in America. By Alexis de Tocqueville. Trans. and ed. by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. xcii, 722 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-226-80532-8.) Get access Seymour Drescher Seymour Drescher University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 2, September 2001, Pages …
What Tocqueville Says to Liberals and Conservatives Today
"Russell Baker once said that in our time people cite Tocqueville without reading \nhim even more than they do the Bibie and Shakespeare. Every American president \nsińce Eisenhower has ąuoted him, no doubt without reading him, and some of our \nprofessors, to say nothing of other citizens, have picked up their habit of fishing for \nwhat they like, and throwing back the rest, in Tocqueville’s great work Democracy \nin America."(...)
Books in review
Reply to Our Critics
Aristotle'sPolitics, Book I
Modern science, particularly Thomas Hobbes, begins with a broad attack on Aristotle intended to replace "Aristotelity" in the universities. This attack, however, was superficial and never properly reconsidered when Hobbes and his cohort were in turn superseded. The connection between politics and nature deserves a reconsideration and receives it in this article on Book I of Aristotle's Politics. The author adopts Hobbes' assertion that Aristotle'…
Democracy in America
Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb.
Tocqueville's Machiavellianism
Tocqueville's sole reference to Machiavelli in Democracy in America is a nicely located misquotation. This article makes much of it, more than one would likely think possible. Tocqueville's mission was to replace Machiavelli in his role of captain-philosopher and to save the aristocratic element in democracy that Machiavelli believed should be dispensed with
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