| Description |
1 online resource (xxxv, 440 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 421-428) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Philosophy
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. De la démocratie en Amérique.
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Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 fast |
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De la démocratie en Amérique (Tocqueville, Alexis de) fast |
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Historians -- France -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Political.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
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Historians
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Philosophy
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Politics and Government.
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France
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online).
Philosophy (YSO) Oct. 2013
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| ISBN |
0300176201 |
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9780300176209 |
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