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After Tocqueville : the promise and failure of democracy / Chilton Williamson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Williamson, Chilton.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
- Democracy--History.
- Democracy.
- History.
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Political science--History.
- Political science.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Influence.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de.
- Physical Description:
- xxii, 264 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Wilmington, Del. : Intercollegiate Studies Institute, [2012]
- Summary:
- "When Alexis de Tocqueville wrote his seminal work Democracy in America (1835), he regarded democracy as the future of the West. Subsequent events, from the collapse of communism to the recent popular uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, seem to confirm his prescience. But a closer look at the history of democracy from the 1830s down to the present reveals a far more complicated picture. In fact, author Chilton Williamson Jr. concludes, the future appears rather unpromising for democratic institutions around the world. After Tocqueville traces that history and examines that future. Williamson shows that in Europe democracy has tended toward socialism, in America toward nationalism. Indeed, the definitions and concepts of "democracy" have become so varied that the very term democracy is in effect meaningless--something upon which people have never been able to agree, and never will"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Part I Democracy after Tocqueville
- Chapter 1 From Tocqueville to Fukuyama 1
- Chapter 2 The Momentum of Monarchy 15
- Chapter 3 Democracy's Forked Road 37
- Part II Democracy and Civilization
- Chapter 4 What Is Democracy? 71
- Chapter 5 "Fit Your Feet" 85
- Chapter 6 The King's Second Body 91
- Chapter 7 The Business of Aristocracies 99
- Chapter 8 Christianity: The Vital Spot 113
- Chapter 9 Speechless Democracy 127
- Chapter 10 Democracy and Modern Man 141
- Chapter 11 Three against Democracy 167
- Part III The Future of Democracy and the End of History
- Chapter 12 The Cold Monster at Bay 185
- Chapter 13 The Future of Democracy 197
- Chapter 14 After Democracy 221.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781610170222
- 1610170229
- OCLC:
- 729341815
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