The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville / / Roger Boesche.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Boesche, Roger,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1987
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745515; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745515
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Roger Boesche.

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.