The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville / Roger Boesche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Boesche, Roger, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.

Biography & Autobiography.

Local Subjects:

Biography & Autobiography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville places Tocqueville's political though in the context of his time and place, and shows why his ideas defy easy classification. Responding to the twentieth-century tendency to impose anachronistic political categories on Tocqueville, Roger Boesche reminds us that like Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Lamartine, Flaubert, and other writers of his generation, he was a nineteenth-century Frenchman reacting to contemporary French concerns, aspirations, and anxieties.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART ONE. Tocqueville and His Generation

PART TWO. Freedom: Tocqueville's Hope

PART THREE. Despotism: Tocqueville's Fear

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4551-4

OCLC:

1125109714