Tocqueville's road map : methodology, liberalism, revolution, and despotism /
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Lanham, MD :
Lexington Books,
c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Why could Tocqueville predict so well?
- 2. The strange liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville
- 3. Tocqueville on the tension between commerce and citizenship
- 4. Why did Tocqueville think a successful revolution was impossible?
- 5. The dark side of Tocqueville : on war and empire
- 6. Hedonism and nihilism : the predictions of Tocqueville and Nietzsche
- 7. The prison : Tocqueville's model for despotism
- 8. Tocqueville and Arendt on the novelty of modern tyranny
- 9. Le commerce : a newspaper expressing Tocqueville's unusual liberalism.