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Online-Ressource (477 p)
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9780300119312
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Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Brief Life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- PART I: TRIPLE-ALIENATED MAN -- 1 Identity in a Time of Historical Transition -- 2 Class: Between Two Worlds -- 3 Intimacy -- 4 Ambition -- 5 Melancholy -- 6 Skeptical Romantic -- 7 Skeptical Philosophe -- 8 Skepticism and Religion: "Une Ombre Vaine" -- 9 Doubt and the Will to Believe -- 10 Exile: Voiceless in Cannes -- PART II: THE CALLING OF POLITICS -- 1 Vocation: Politics as Calling-Tocqueville's "Beau Rêve" -- 2 Vocation: The Responsibilities of Political Leaders -- 3 The Dead Sea of Politics -- 4 Tocqueville's Aristocratic Liberalism -- PART III: WRITING DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA -- 1 A Moral Landscape -- 2 A Moral History -- 3 Escape -- 4 The New World: Fable, Romance, History -- 5 Tocqueville in the Wilderness -- 6 Transformations -- 7 Beginning Democracy in America -- 8 Influences: Voices in the Tower -- 9 Writing as Moral Act -- 10 History as Moral Drama -- 11 The Birth of a Book -- PART IV: TOCQUEVILLE'S AMERICA -- 1 Tocqueville's American Notebooks and Democracy in America -- 2 Traveling Through the New Republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont -- 3 Democratic Religion: Mad Messiahs and Chaste Women -- 4 Class in an Egalitarian Society -- 5 Born-Again America: The Creation of an American Identity -- 6 Politics: Order and Disorder in the New Republic -- 7 A Dark Vision of Democracy's Prospects -- 8 The Democratic Psyche and the Hazards of Equality -- 9 A Culture of Extremes: The Prospects for Freedom in a Culture Without Limits -- Conclusion -- A Brief Chronological Narrative of the Life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: A Brief Life of Alexis de Tocqueville""; ""PART I: TRIPLE-ALIENATED MAN""; ""1 Identity in a Time of Historical Transition""; ""2 Class: Between Two Worlds""; ""3 Intimacy""; ""4 Ambition""; ""5 Melancholy""; ""6 Skeptical Romantic""; ""7 Skeptical Philosophe""; ""8 Skepticism and Religion: “Une Ombre Vaine�""; ""9 Doubt and the Will to Believe""; ""10 Exile: Voiceless in Cannes""; ""PART II: THE CALLING OF POLITICS""; ""1 Vocation: Politics as Calling�Tocqueville�s “Beau Rêve�""
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""2 Vocation: The Responsibilities of Political Leaders""""3 The Dead Sea of Politics""; ""4 Tocqueville�s Aristocratic Liberalism""; ""PART III: WRITING DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA""; ""1 A Moral Landscape""; ""2 A Moral History""; ""3 Escape""; ""4 The New World: Fable, Romance, History""; ""5 Tocqueville in the Wilderness""; ""6 Transformations""; ""7 Beginning Democracy in America""; ""8 Influences: Voices in the Tower""; ""9 Writing as Moral Act""; ""10 History as Moral Drama""; ""11 The Birth of a Book""; ""PART IV: TOCQUEVILLE�S AMERICA""
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""1 Tocqueville�s American Notebooks and Democracy in America""""2 Traveling Through the New Republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont""; ""3 Democratic Religion: Mad Messiahs and Chaste Women""; ""4 Class in an Egalitarian Society""; ""5 Born-Again America: The Creation of an American Identity""; ""6 Politics: Order and Disorder in the New Republic""; ""7 A Dark Vision of Democracy�s Prospects""; ""8 The Democratic Psyche and the Hazards of Equality""; ""9 A Culture of Extremes: The Prospects for Freedom in a Culture Without Limits""; ""Conclusion""
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""A Brief Chronological Narrative of the Life of Alexis de Tocqueville""""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""
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ISBN 9780300176209
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ISBN 9780300119312
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Print version Tocqueville and His America
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Englisch
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