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De Tocqueville / Cheryl B. Welch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welch, Cheryl B., author.
- Series:
- Founders of modern political and social thought.
- Founders of modern political and social thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de.
- Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859--Influence.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 284 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Alexis de Tocqueville is one of the most topical and debated figures in contemporary political and social theory. This introduction to de Tocqueville's thought examines in detail his classic works and their major themes.
- Contents:
- 1. Tocqueville in His Time
- Contextualizing Tocqueville
- Tocqueville 'Life and Times'
- Social Science and 'the Shape of Democracy Itself'
- History and 'the Natural Destiny of a People'
- Moralism and 'the Secrets of the Heart'
- 2. American Democracy: The Shape of Democracy Itself
- Tocqueville's Point de Depart: Equality and Liberty
- American Democracy's Point de Depart
- American Tangents
- Defining Democracy
- Democracy's Distinctive Spheres: Political Society, Civil Society, and Natural Society
- Cautionary Tales
- Lessons of America
- Tocqueville's Method of Explanation
- Return to Democracy's Point de Depart
- 3. French Democracy: The Natural Destiny of a People
- French Democracy's Point de Depart
- Napoleon and the Destiny of France
- Themes of The Old Regime and the Revolution
- Administered Society
- Noble Failures and Bourgeois Weakness
- Civil Society in the Old Regime
- Endgame
- Tocqueville as Historian
- Revolution and its Spirit
- 4. Social Science and Moral Duties: The Secrets of the Heart
- Natural and the Unnatural
- Demands of God
- Rights of Man
- Duties of Woman
- World Turned Upside Down
- 5. Tocqueville in Our Time
- Receptions, Eclipses, Revivals Two Histories
- Tocqueville and Liberal Alternatives to Revolution
- Tocqueville, Associations, and Civil Society
- E Pluribus Unum: the Need for Stabilizing Beliefs
- Tocqueville Today.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
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