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Tocqueville and his America /
Kaledin offers an original combination of biography, character study and wide-ranging analysis of Toqueville's 'Democracy in America', bringing new light to that classic work.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: A brief life of Alexis de Tocqueville
- Part I: Triple-alienated man
- Identity in a time of historical transition
- Class: between two worlds
- Intimacy
- Ambition
- Melancholy
- Skeptical romantic
- Skeptical philosophe
- Skepticism and religion: "une ombre vaine"
- Doubt and the will to believe
- Exile: voiceless in Cannes
- Part II: The calling of politics
- Vocation: politics as calling
- Tocqueville's "beau rêve"
- Vocation: the responsibilities of political leaders
- The Dead Sea of politics
- Tocqueville's aristocratic liberalism
- Part III: Writing Democracy in America
- A moral landscape
- A moral history
- Escape
- The new world: fable, romance, history
- Tocqueville in the wilderness
- Transformations
- Beginning Democracy in America
- Influences: voices in the tower
- Writing as moral act
- History as moral drama
- The birth of a book
- Part IV: Tocqueville's America
- Tocqueville's American notebooks and Democracy in America
- Traveling through the new republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont
- Democratic religion: mad messiahs and chaste women
- Class in an egalitarian society
- Born-again America: the creation of an American identity
- Politics: order and disorder in the new republic
- A dark vision of democracy's prospects
- The democratic psyche and the hazards of equality
- A culture of extremes: the prospects for freedom in a culture without limits
- A brief chronological narrative of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville.