Tocqueville : the aristocratic sources of liberty / Lucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaume, Lucien.

Contributor:

Goldhammer, Arthur.

Standardized Title:

Tocqueville. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Historians--France--Biography.

Historians.

Political science.

History.

France.

Democracy--Philosophy.

Democracy.

Political science--France--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

347 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2013.

Contents:

What did Tocqueville mean by "democracy"?

Attacking the French tradition : popular sovereignty redefined in and through local liberties

Democracy as modern religion

Democracy as expectation of material pleasures

Tocqueville as sociologist

In the tradition of Montesquieu : the state-society analogy

Counterrevolutionary traditionalism : a muffled polemic

The discovery of the collective

Tocqueville and the Protestantism of his time: the insistent reality of the collective

Tocqueville as moralist

The moralist and the question of l'honnte

Tocqueville's relation to Jansenism

Tocqueville in literature: democratic language without declared authority

Resisting the democratic tendencies of language

Tocqueville in the debate about literature and society

The great contemporaries : models and countermodels

Tocqueville and Guizot : two conceptions of authority

Tutelary figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand.

Notes:

Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la liberté biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691152042

0691152047

OCLC:

808008861