| Description |
347 p. |
| Note |
Translation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la liberte biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
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Historians -- France -- Biography.
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Democracy -- Philosophy.
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Political science -- France -- History -- 19th century.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Goldhammer, Arthur.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780691152042 (acid-free paper) |
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9781400846726 (electronic bk.) |
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