Tocqueville and His America : A Darker Horizon.
Kaledin, Arthur.
Tocqueville and His America : A Darker Horizon. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (477 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Brief Life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- PART I: TRIPLE-ALIENATED MAN -- 1 Identity in a Time of Historical Transition -- 2 Class: Between Two Worlds -- 3 Intimacy -- 4 Ambition -- 5 Melancholy -- 6 Skeptical Romantic -- 7 Skeptical Philosophe -- 8 Skepticism and Religion: "Une Ombre Vaine" -- 9 Doubt and the Will to Believe -- 10 Exile: Voiceless in Cannes -- PART II: THE CALLING OF POLITICS -- 1 Vocation: Politics as Calling-Tocqueville's "Beau Rêve" -- 2 Vocation: The Responsibilities of Political Leaders -- 3 The Dead Sea of Politics -- 4 Tocqueville's Aristocratic Liberalism -- PART III: WRITING DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA -- 1 A Moral Landscape -- 2 A Moral History -- 3 Escape -- 4 The New World: Fable, Romance, History -- 5 Tocqueville in the Wilderness -- 6 Transformations -- 7 Beginning Democracy in America -- 8 Influences: Voices in the Tower -- 9 Writing as Moral Act -- 10 History as Moral Drama -- 11 The Birth of a Book -- PART IV: TOCQUEVILLE'S AMERICA -- 1 Tocqueville's American Notebooks and Democracy in America -- 2 Traveling Through the New Republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont -- 3 Democratic Religion: Mad Messiahs and Chaste Women -- 4 Class in an Egalitarian Society -- 5 Born-Again America: The Creation of an American Identity -- 6 Politics: Order and Disorder in the New Republic -- 7 A Dark Vision of Democracy's Prospects -- 8 The Democratic Psyche and the Hazards of Equality -- 9 A Culture of Extremes: The Prospects for Freedom in a Culture Without Limits -- Conclusion -- A Brief Chronological Narrative of the Life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
No detailed description available for "Tocqueville and His America".
9780300176209
Historians -- France -- Biography.
Electronic books.
JC229.T8 -- K35 2011eb
320.973
Tocqueville and His America : A Darker Horizon. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (477 pages)
Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Brief Life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- PART I: TRIPLE-ALIENATED MAN -- 1 Identity in a Time of Historical Transition -- 2 Class: Between Two Worlds -- 3 Intimacy -- 4 Ambition -- 5 Melancholy -- 6 Skeptical Romantic -- 7 Skeptical Philosophe -- 8 Skepticism and Religion: "Une Ombre Vaine" -- 9 Doubt and the Will to Believe -- 10 Exile: Voiceless in Cannes -- PART II: THE CALLING OF POLITICS -- 1 Vocation: Politics as Calling-Tocqueville's "Beau Rêve" -- 2 Vocation: The Responsibilities of Political Leaders -- 3 The Dead Sea of Politics -- 4 Tocqueville's Aristocratic Liberalism -- PART III: WRITING DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA -- 1 A Moral Landscape -- 2 A Moral History -- 3 Escape -- 4 The New World: Fable, Romance, History -- 5 Tocqueville in the Wilderness -- 6 Transformations -- 7 Beginning Democracy in America -- 8 Influences: Voices in the Tower -- 9 Writing as Moral Act -- 10 History as Moral Drama -- 11 The Birth of a Book -- PART IV: TOCQUEVILLE'S AMERICA -- 1 Tocqueville's American Notebooks and Democracy in America -- 2 Traveling Through the New Republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont -- 3 Democratic Religion: Mad Messiahs and Chaste Women -- 4 Class in an Egalitarian Society -- 5 Born-Again America: The Creation of an American Identity -- 6 Politics: Order and Disorder in the New Republic -- 7 A Dark Vision of Democracy's Prospects -- 8 The Democratic Psyche and the Hazards of Equality -- 9 A Culture of Extremes: The Prospects for Freedom in a Culture Without Limits -- Conclusion -- A Brief Chronological Narrative of the Life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
No detailed description available for "Tocqueville and His America".
9780300176209
Historians -- France -- Biography.
Electronic books.
JC229.T8 -- K35 2011eb
320.973