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100 1 _aKaledin, Arthur.
245 1 0 _aTocqueville and His America :
_bA Darker Horizon.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aNew Haven :
_bYale University Press,
_c2011.
264 4 _c©2011.
300 _a1 online resource (477 pages)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aNo detailed description available for "Tocqueville and His America".
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aHistorians -- France -- Biography.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aKaledin, Arthur
_tTocqueville and His America
_dNew Haven : Yale University Press,c2011
_z9780300119312
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
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