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Tocqueville between Two Worlds : The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life /
"Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the fi...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2003]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. The abundance of power. Modern theory and modern power ; Theoria: the theoretical journey.
- pt. 2. Encountering the amazing. Discovering democracy ; Self and structure ; Doubt and disconnection ; " ... The theory of what is great" ; Myth and political impressionism ; The spectacle of America.
- pt. 3. The theoretical encapsulation of America. Social contract versus political culture ; The culture of the political: "the rituals of practice" ; Feudal America ; Majority rule or majority politics ; Centralization and dissolution ; The image of democracy.
- pt. 4. Persona and the politics of theory. Tragic hero, popular mask ; The democratization of culture ; Despotism and utopia ; Old new world, new old world ; Tocquevillean democracy ; The penitentiary temptation.
- pt. 5. Second journey to America. The political education of the bourgeoisie ; Souvenirs: recollections of in/tranquility ; Souvenirs: socialism and the crisis of the political ; The old regime and the revolution: mythistoricus et theoreticus ; The old regime: modernization and the politics of loss ; Postdemocracy.