| Politics and Remembrance: Republican Themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville Subjects: Republicanism; Political participation; Memory; Machiavelli Niccolò 1469-1527 -- Political science; Burke Edmund 1729?-1797 -- Political science; Tocqueville Alexis de 1805-1859 -- Political science; This inquiry into the nature of political action concerns what the author describes as the most precarious and uncertain of human endeavors." Focusing on specific themes in Machiavelli, Burke, and Tocqueville, Bruce Smith identifies political action as a distinct mode of human activity. |