Tocqueville Between Two Worlds: The Making of a Political and Theoretical LifePrinceton University Press, 2001 - 650 pages Alexis 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. |
Contents
MODERN THEORY AND MODERN POWER | 13 |
Theoria THE THEORETICAL JOURNEY | 34 |
DISCOVERING DEMOCRACY | 59 |
SELF AND STRUCTURE | 76 |
DOUBT AND DISCONNECTION | 102 |
THE THEORY OF WHAT IS GREAT | 113 |
MYTH AND POLITICAL IMPRESSIONISM | 132 |
THE SPECTACLE OF AMERICA | 149 |
THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF CULTURE | 304 |
DESPOTISM AND UTOPIA | 339 |
OLD NEW WORLD NEW OLD WORLD | 365 |
TOCQUEVILLEAN DEMOCRACY | 374 |
THE PENITENTIARY TEMPTATION | 383 |
SECOND JOURNEY TO AMERICA | 407 |
THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF THE BOURGEOISIE | 409 |
Souvenirs RECOLLECTIONS INTRANQUILLITY | 428 |
SOCIAL CONTRACT VERSUS POLITICAL CULTURE | 171 |
THE CULTURE OF THE POLITICAL THE RITUALS | 202 |
FEUDAL AMERICA | 229 |
MAJORITY RULE OR MAJORITY POLITICS | 241 |
CENTRALIZATION AND DISSOLUTION | 260 |
THE IMAGE OF DEMOCRACY | 275 |
TRAGIC HERO POPULAR MASK | 289 |
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