The Anthem companion to Alexis de Tocqueville / edited by Daniel Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gordon, Daniel, editor.

JSTOR (Online Service)

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Anthem companions to sociology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 244 pages).

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Place of Publication:

London : Anthem Press, 2019.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Cover; Front Matter; Half-title; Title page; Copyright information; Table of Contents; Introduction: Tocqueville and the Sociological Conversation; An Anguished Life; Why Tocqueville Today?; What Is Unique about This Volume?; Bibliography; A Note on References Todemocracy in America; Parts 1 to 6; Part 1 Religion and Immaterial Interests; Chapter 1 Tocqueville on Religion; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Unmasking Religion: Marx's Stance, Tocqueville's Alternative; Marx; The "Unmasking" Style; II. Marx's Theory of Religion: Inversion, Reduction, Deflation; Weaponization and Hyperbole; Tocqueville

Tocqueville and MarxReligion's Place and Its Limits; Religion's Place in the Human Condition: A Counterforce to Materialism; Religion's Contribution to Democracy; The Proper Boundaries of Religious Influence; Concluding Observations: Tocqueville and Marx Today; Bibliography; Part 2 Language, Literature, and Social Theory; Chapter 3 Tocqueville Mortal and Immortal: Power and Style; A Note on Vocabulary; Arts, Sciences, and Democracy; Cultivating a Natural Style; Mortal and Immortal: Tocqueville's Two-Pronged Ambition; Duration and Debris; Bibliography

Chapter 4 Tocqueville and Linguistic Innovation"Democracy"; The "Modify" Thesis; "General Ideas" and the Modification of Language; Democracy is Other; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part 3 Globalism and Empire; Chapter 5 Noble Comparisons; Axis 1: The United States and Europe; Axis 2: England and Ireland; Axis 3: France and Algeria; Some Inferences from the Three Comparative Axes; Bibliography; Chapter 6 Tocqueville and Lévi-Strauss: Democratic Revolution at Bookends of Empire; Toward a Global History; Comparative Law and Cross-Cultural Comparison; Self-Awareness and Reflexivity

The Ends of EmpireThe Self and the Art of Being Free; Conclusion; Bibliography; Part 4 Inequalities Inside Democracy; Chapter 7 "The Tenacious Color-Line": Tocqueville's Thought in a Post-Du Boisian World; Bibliography; Chapter 8 "The Whole Moral and Intellectual State of a People": Tocqueville on Men, Women, and Mores...; American Mores, Democratic Republican Religion, and Women's Roles in Democracy in America, Volume 1; American Equality, Natural Family Feelings, and Women's Roles in Democracy in America, Volume 2

Tocqueville Today: Women's Rights, Comparative Revolutions, and Contemporary Cultural CommentaryAcknowledgments; Bibliography; Part 5 Citizenship, Participation, and Punishment; Chapter 9 The Dynamics of Political Equality in Rousseau, Tocqueville, and Beyond; Rousseau: Popular Sovereignty as Political Legitimacy and the Problem of Governmental Power; Solving the "Geometry of Power"; Two Virtuous Circles; Tocqueville's Solution to the Rousseau Problem; Tocqueville's Reconciliation of Popular Sovereignty with Governmental Power: Splitting the Difference; In Search of the Virtuous Circle

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Have We Solved Rousseau's Dilemma? Tocqueville's Big Bet

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Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

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Print version: Gordon, Daniel The Anthem Companion to Alexis de Tocqueville

ISBN:

9781783089765

1783089768

9781783089772

1783089776

Publisher Number:

40029212235

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