Tocqueville and his America : a darker horizon / Arthur Kaledin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kaledin, Arthur, 1930-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Philosophy.

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. De la démocratie en Amérique.

Historians--France--Biography.

Historians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xxxv, 440 p.))

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Arthur Kaledin's groundbreaking book on Alexis de Tocqueville offers an original combination of biography, character study, and wide-ranging analysis of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, bringing new light to that classic work. The author examines the relation between Tocqueville's complicated inner life, his self-imagination, and his moral thought, and the meaning of his enduring writings, leading to a new understanding of Tocqueville's view of democratic culture and democratic politics. With particular emphasis on Tocqueville's prescient anticipation of various threats to liberty, social unity, and truly democratic politics in America posed by aspects of democratic culture, Kaledin underscores the continuing pertinence of Tocqueville's thought in our own changing world of the twenty-first century.

Contents:

pt. 1. Triple-alienated man

pt. 2. The calling of politics

pt. 3. Writing Democracy in America

pt. 4. Tocqueville's America.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613244833

9781283244831

1283244837

9780300176209

0300176201

OCLC:

750193434