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almafu_9960119520002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 290 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
0-511-59855-6
Content:
Alexis de Tocqueville is recognized as one of the most important nineteenth-century historians. In this perceptive study, Harvey Mitchell examines Tocqueville's works, in particular Souvenirs of 1848 and his voluminous correspondence, to shed new light on Tocqueville's philosophy of history. Professor Mitchell exposes the tensions which Tocqueville perceived between determined actions and choice, continuity and change, asking what happens to individual liberty if it is impossible to make a clean break with the past, and if past developments continue to influence the future. Professor Mitchell draws on the full range of Tocqueville's writings to find in them a unity of thought and a deep involvement with the philosophical questions raised by historical continuity and change.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Frameworks -- 2. Toward a theory of history -- 3. Tocqueville's conceptualization of moral choice and the particular -- 4. Tocqueville's uses of intentionality and necessity in the Souvenirs -- 5. Toward the history of L'Ancien Regime et la Revolution -- 6. Three faces of history in Democracy in America -- 7. Tocqueville on the general laws of revolution -- 8. The aristocratic ethos on the defensive -- 9. Ideas and public opinion: the formation of a new ethos -- 10. Further reflections.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-02415-3
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-56091-8
Language:
English
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511598555
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