Tocqueville : the aristocratic sources of liberty / / Lucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English French |
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| Physical Description: | 347 p. |
| Notes: | Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la liberte biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.