Tocqueville [electronic resource] : the aristocratic sources of liberty / Lucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
Language: English Original language: French Publication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.Description: 347 pISBN:- 9780691152042 (acid-free paper)
- 9781400846726 (e-book)
- Tocqueville. English
- 320.092 23
- DC36.98.T63 J3813 2013eb
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Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la libert�e biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
What did Tocqueville mean by "democracy"? -- Attacking the French tradition : popular sovereignty redefined in and through local liberties -- Democracy as modern religion -- Democracy as expectation of material pleasures -- Tocqueville as sociologist -- In the tradition of Montesquieu : the state-society analogy -- Counterrevolutionary traditionalism : a muffled polemic -- The discovery of the collective -- Tocqueville and the Protestantism of his time: the insistent reality of the collective -- Tocqueville as moralist -- The moralist and the question of l'honnte -- Tocqueville's relation to Jansenism -- Tocqueville in literature: democratic language without declared authority -- Resisting the democratic tendencies of language -- Tocqueville in the debate about literature and society -- The great contemporaries : models and countermodels -- Tocqueville and Guizot : two conceptions of authority -- Tutelary figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand.
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