SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities is announcing a new course
being offered in History for Spring 2000:

History 499

"Revolution and Modernity in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville"

Time and Place:  Tuesdays and Thursdays,  1:40-2:55 PM, 303 Holt Hall
Instructor:  Professor Wilfred M. McClay, SunTrust Chair of Excellence in
Humanities

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) was one of the most important social and
political thinkers of the modern era.  His greatest work, the two-volume
study Democracy in America, is still regarded by many observers as the
single most profound investigation of democracy, and most insightful
portrait of the United States, ever written.  His works on the French
Revolutions of 1789 and 1848 have long been touchstones for the study of
those subjects, and of the phenomena of revolution and social change in
modem political societies.  The course will explore whether Tocqueville's
works add up to a coherent view of the world, and of the various
possibilities of human character and society.