Tocqueville Program
The newly-founded Tocqueville Program at Indiana University Bloomington
is pleased to announce its first speaker for AY 2009-2010
Friday, November 6, 2009
Tocqueville Room, Workshop in Political Theory
512 N. Park
12-1.30 p.m.
Matthew Mancini
Professor, St. Louis University
"What's Wrong with Tocqueville Studies, and What Can Be Done About It"
Matthew Mancini is Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri. He received his A. B. in English from Fordham, and the PhD in American Studies from Emory. He went to SLU in 2000 from Missouri State University, where he was Professor of History and department chair. He has also taught at Rice, and at Mercer University in Atlanta. He held the Otto M. Salgo Chair in American Studies at Eötvös Loránd University (the University of Budapest). He has also been a Fulbright lecturer in Hong Kong, and an external research fellow at Tulane. He is the author of Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals: From His Times to Ours (2006), Alexis de Tocqueville (1994), and One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the American South (1996); and the coeditor of Understanding Maritain (1988). Most recently, Professor Mancini has published “Too Many Tocquevilles: The Fable of Tocqueville’s American Reception," in Journal of the History of Ideas 69, no. 2 (April 2008).
The establishment of a Tocqueville program at Indiana University funded by the Philadelphia-based Jack Miller Center reflects the widespread interest in Tocquville’s work on modern democracy, as the first anthropologist of modern equality whose ideas offer us today an indispensable starting point in our own reflections on key topics such as civil society, pluralism, religion, participatory democracy, the democratic mind, and the limits of affluence. For more information please contact the Program’s Director, Professor Aurelian Craiutu, acraiutu@indiana.edu or visit http://ywoodsolutions.com/IUprof/index.shtml
