Equality and Liberty in Tocqueville and Rousseau
ABSTRACT
Via a reading of key texts by Tocqueville and Rousseau, this conference explored the relationship between liberty and equality as revealed through history, as played out in political life, and as manifested in the entanglements between politics and religion in the modern world.
READING LIST
Conference Readings
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. Emile: or On Education. Translated by Allan Bloom. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: The Two Discourses and the Social Contract. Translated by John T. Scott. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America, Volume 1 [English Edition]. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2012.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Democracy in America, Volume 2 [English edition]. Edited by Eduardo Nolla. Translated by James T. Schleifer. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, Inc., 2012.
Tocqueville, Alexis de. Memoir on Pauperism. Translated by Seymour Drescher. London: Civitas, 1997.