Tocqueville between Two Worlds : : The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life /

Tocqueville between Two Worlds : : The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life / / Sheldon S. Wolin.

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Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present...

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Wolin, Sheldon S.,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2001
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. The Abundance of Power
  • Chapter I: Modern Theory and Modern Power
  • Chapter II: Theoria: The Theoretical Journey
  • PART TWO. Encountering the Amazing
  • Chapter III: Discovering Democracy
  • Chapter IV: Self and Structure
  • Chapter V: Doubt and Disconnection
  • Chapter VI: " . . . the theory of what is great"
  • Chapter VII: Myth and Political Impressionism
  • Chapter VIII: The Spectacle of America
  • PART THREE. The Theoretical Encapsulation of America
  • Chapter IX: Social Contract versus Political Culture
  • Chapter X: The Culture of the Political: "the rituals of practice"
  • Chapter XI: Feudal America
  • Chapter XII: Majority Rule or Majority Politics
  • Chapter XIII: Centralization and Dissolution
  • Chapter XIV: The Image of Democracy
  • PART FOUR. Persona and the Politics of Theory
  • Chapter XV: Tragic Hero, Popular Mask
  • Chapter XVI: The Democratization of Culture
  • Chapter XVII: Despotism and Utopia
  • Chapter XVIII: Old New World, New Old World
  • Chapter XIX: Tocquevillean Democracy
  • Chapter XX: The Penitentiary Temptation
  • PART FIVE. Second Journey to America
  • Chapter XXI: The Political Education of the Bourgeoisie
  • Chapter XXII: Souvenirs: Recollections In/Tranquillity
  • Chapter XXIII: Souvenirs: Socialism and the Crisis of the Political
  • Chapter XXIV: The Old Regime and the Revolution: Mythistoricus et theoreticus
  • Chapter XXV: The Old Regime: Modernization and the Politics of Loss
  • Chapter XXVI: Postdemocracy
  • Notes
  • Index

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