Tocqueville between two worlds : the making of a political and theoretical life /

书目详细资料
主要作者: Wolin, Sheldon S.
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2003]
在线阅读:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295544
书本目录:
  • pt. 1. The abundance of power. Modern theory and modern power ; Theoria: the theoretical journey.
  • pt. 2. Encountering the amazing. Discovering democracy ; Self and structure ; Doubt and disconnection ; " ... The theory of what is great" ; Myth and political impressionism ; The spectacle of America.
  • pt. 3. The theoretical encapsulation of America. Social contract versus political culture ; The culture of the political: "the rituals of practice" ; Feudal America ; Majority rule or majority politics ; Centralization and dissolution ; The image of democracy.
  • pt. 4. Persona and the politics of theory. Tragic hero, popular mask ; The democratization of culture ; Despotism and utopia ; Old new world, new old world ; Tocquevillean democracy ; The penitentiary temptation.
  • pt. 5. Second journey to America. The political education of the bourgeoisie ; Souvenirs: recollections of in/tranquility ; Souvenirs: socialism and the crisis of the political ; The old regime and the revolution: mythistoricus et theoreticus ; The old regime: modernization and the politics of loss ; Postdemocracy.