The strange liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Boesche, Roger
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1987.
Subjects:
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, > 1805-1859
Tocqueville, Alexis de > 1805-1859
Tocqueville, Alexis de.
Liberty.
Liberalism.
Freedom
Liberté.
Libéralisme.
freedom.
liberalism.
PHILOSOPHY > Movements > General.
Liberalism
Liberty
Liberalismus
Vrijheid.
Politieke filosofie.
Political science > Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 - Critical studies
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Anxiety in an age of transition
  • Individualism, isolation, and the fragmentation of society
  • Powerlessness: from an age of heroes to an age of machines
  • Belittling bourgeois society
  • Heroes and hiding places: the wish to escape bourgeois society
  • Freedom as decentralization and participation
  • Freedom as interdependence: the paradox of personal independence
  • Freedom as self-mastery: the necessity of culture
  • Freedom deserved by mores, not laws
  • Freedom as overcoming self-interest: the importance of a sense of history
  • The relation of freedom to glory, nationalism, and turmoil
  • The new despotism.

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