Tocqueville : the aristocratic sources of liberty
Lucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer
Bok Engelsk 2013 Lucien. Jaume,· Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Princeton : Princeton University Press , cop. 2013
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| Omfang | 347 s.
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE. WHAT DID TOCQUEVILLE MEAN BY "DEMOCRACY"?; 1. Attacking the French Tradition: Popular Sovereignty Redefined in and through Local Liberties; 2. Democracy as Modern Religion; 3. Democracy as Expectation of Material Pleasures; PART TWO. TOCQUEVILLE AS SOCIOLOGIST; 4. In the Tradition of Montesquieu: The State-Society Analogy; 5. Counterrevolutionary Traditionalism: A Muffled Polemic; 6. The Discovery of the Collective; 7. Tocqueville and the Protestantism of His Time: The Insistent Reality of the Collective. - Appendix 2. Silvestre de Sacy, Review of Democracy in AmericaAppendix 3. Letter from Alexis de Tocqueville to Silvestre de Sacy; Index. - PART THREE. TOCQUEVILLE AS MORALIST8. The Moralist and the Question of l'Honnête; 9. Tocqueville's Relation to Jansenism; PART FOUR. TOCQUEVILLE IN LITERATURE: DEMOCRATIC LANGUAGE WITHOUT DECLARED AUTHORITY; 10. Resisting the Democratic Tendencies of Language; 11. Tocqueville in the Debate about Literature and Society; PART FIVE. THE GREAT CONTEMPORARIES: MODELS AND COUNTERMODELS; 12. Tocqueville and Guizot: Two Conceptions of Authority; 13. Tutelary Figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand; Conclusion; Appendix 1. The Use of Anthologies and Summaries in Tocqueville's Time. - Many American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book, written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly concerned with France. ""America,"" Jaume says, ""was merely a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of France."" For Tocqueville, in s
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| ISBN | 9780691152042
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