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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Kaledin, Arthur, 1930-     Subjects     Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.     Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Philosophy.     Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. De la démocratie en Amérique.     Historians -- France -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kaledin, Arthur, 1930-       by title:      Tocqueville and his ...         MARC Display

Tocqueville and his America : a darker horizon / Arthur Kaledin. by Kaledin, Arthur, 1930- New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2011. Subjects Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.   Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859 -- Philosophy.   Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859. De la démocratie en Amérique.   Historians -- France -- Biography. ISBN:  9780300119312 (cloth : alk. paper) 0300119313 (cloth : alk. paper) Description:  xxxv, 440 p. ; 25 cm. Contents:  Introduction: A brief life of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Part I: Triple-alienated man -- Identity in a time of historical transition -- Class: between two worlds -- Intimacy -- Ambition -- Melancholy -- Skeptical romantic -- Skeptical philosophe -- Skepticism and religion: "une ombre vaine" -- Doubt and the will to believe -- Exile: voiceless in Cannes -- Part II: The calling of politics -- Vocation: politics as calling--Tocqueville's "beau rêve" -- Vocation: the responsibilities of political leaders -- The Dead Sea of politics -- Tocqueville's aristocratic liberalism -- Part III: Writing Democracy in America -- A moral landscape -- A moral history -- Escape -- The new world: fable, romance, history -- Tocqueville in the wilderness -- Transformations -- Beginning Democracy in America -- Influences: voices in the tower -- Writing as moral act -- History as moral drama -- The birth of a book -- Part IV: Tocqueville's America -- Tocqueville's American notebooks and Democracy in America -- Traveling through the new republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont -- Democratic religion: mad messiahs and chaste women -- Class in an egalitarian society -- Born-again America: the creation of an American identity -- Politics: order and disorder in the new republic -- A dark vision of democracy's prospects -- The democratic psyche and the hazards of equality -- A culture of extremes: the prospects for freedom in a culture without limits -- A brief chronological narrative of the life of Alexis de Tocqueville. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 320.973 Tocqueville Ka Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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