Tocqueville the aristocratic sources of liberty /

Main Author: Jaume, Lucien.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Goldhammer, Arthur.
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2013.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10652017
Table of Contents:
  • What did Tocqueville mean by "democracy"?
  • Attacking the French tradition : popular sovereignty redefined in and through local liberties
  • Democracy as modern religion
  • Democracy as expectation of material pleasures
  • Tocqueville as sociologist
  • In the tradition of Montesquieu : the state-society analogy
  • Counterrevolutionary traditionalism : a muffled polemic
  • The discovery of the collective
  • Tocqueville and the Protestantism of his time: the insistent reality of the collective
  • Tocqueville as moralist
  • The moralist and the question of l'honnte
  • Tocqueville's relation to Jansenism
  • Tocqueville in literature: democratic language without declared authority
  • Resisting the democratic tendencies of language
  • Tocqueville in the debate about literature and society
  • The great contemporaries : models and countermodels
  • Tocqueville and Guizot : two conceptions of authority
  • Tutelary figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand.