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Emory Williams Lectures in the Liberal Arts

Tocqueville on the Sources of Greatness in Democratic Societies

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Aurelian Craiutu of Indiana University gives a talk entitled "Tocqueville on the Sources of Greatness in Democratic Societies" (November 27, 2012). His research interests include French political and social thought (Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Constant, Madame de Staël, Guizot, Aron), varieties of liberalism and conservatism, democratic theory as well as theories of transition to democracy and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe.

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