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082 0 4 _a320.092
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aWolin, Sheldon S.
_eautore
245 1 0 _aTocqueville between Two Worlds :
_bThe Making of a Political and Theoretical Life /
_cSheldon S. Wolin.
250 _aCore Textbook
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2009]
264 4 _c©2001
300 _a1 online resource
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505 0 0 _t Frontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_tPART ONE. The Abundance of Power --
_tChapter I: Modern Theory and Modern Power --
_tChapter II: Theoria: The Theoretical Journey --
_tPART TWO. Encountering the Amazing --
_tChapter III: Discovering Democracy --
_tChapter IV: Self and Structure --
_tChapter V: Doubt and Disconnection --
_tChapter VI: " . . . the theory of what is great" --
_tChapter VII: Myth and Political Impressionism --
_tChapter VIII: The Spectacle of America --
_tPART THREE. The Theoretical Encapsulation of America --
_tChapter IX: Social Contract versus Political Culture --
_tChapter X: The Culture of the Political: "the rituals of practice" --
_tChapter XI: Feudal America --
_tChapter XII: Majority Rule or Majority Politics --
_tChapter XIII: Centralization and Dissolution --
_tChapter XIV: The Image of Democracy --
_tPART FOUR. Persona and the Politics of Theory --
_tChapter XV: Tragic Hero, Popular Mask --
_tChapter XVI: The Democratization of Culture --
_tChapter XVII: Despotism and Utopia --
_tChapter XVIII: Old New World, New Old World --
_tChapter XIX: Tocquevillean Democracy --
_tChapter XX: The Penitentiary Temptation --
_tPART FIVE. Second Journey to America --
_tChapter XXI: The Political Education of the Bourgeoisie --
_tChapter XXII: Souvenirs: Recollections In/Tranquillity --
_tChapter XXIII: Souvenirs: Socialism and the Crisis of the Political --
_tChapter XXIV: The Old Regime and the Revolution: Mythistoricus et theoreticus --
_tChapter XXV: The Old Regime: Modernization and the Politics of Loss --
_tChapter XXVI: Postdemocracy --
_tNotes --
_tIndex
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520 _aAlexis 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 the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents sweeping new interpretations of Tocqueville's major works and of his place in intellectual history. As he traces the origins and impact of Tocqueville's ideas, Wolin also offers a profound commentary on the general trajectory of Western political life over the past two hundred years. Wolin proceeds by examining Tocqueville's key writings in light of his experiences in the troubled world of French politics. He portrays Democracy in America, for example, as a theory of discovery that emerged from Tocqueville's contrasting experiences of America and of France's constitutional monarchy. He shows us how Tocqueville used Recollections to reexamine his political commitments in light of the revolutions of 1848 and the threat of socialism. He portrays The Old Regime and the French Revolution as a work of theoretical history designed to throw light on the Bonapartist despotism he saw around him. Throughout, Wolin highlights the tensions between Tocqueville's ideas and his activities as a politician, arguing that--despite his limited political success--Tocqueville was ''perhaps the last influential theorist who can be said to have truly cared about political life.'' In the course of the book, Wolin also shows that Tocqueville struggled with many of the forces that constrain politics today, including the relentless advance of capitalism, of science and technology, and of state bureaucracy. He concludes that Tocqueville's insights and anxieties about the impotence of politics in a ''postaristocratic'' era speak directly to the challenges of our own ''postdemocratic'' age. A monumental new study of Tocqueville, this is also a rich and provocative work about the past, the present, and the future of democratic life in America and abroad.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)
650 7 _aPHILOSOPHY / Political.
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