Tocqueville and His America: A Darker Horizon
Arthur Kaledin
Abstract
This book offers an original combination of biography, character study, and wide-ranging analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, bringing new light to that classic work. It examines the relation between Tocqueville's complicated inner life, his self-imagination, and his moral thought, and the meaning of his enduring writings, leading to a new understanding of Tocqueville's view of democratic culture and democratic politics. With particular emphasis on Tocqueville's prescient anticipation of various threats to liberty, social unity, and truly democratic politics in America pos ... More
This book offers an original combination of biography, character study, and wide-ranging analysis of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, bringing new light to that classic work. It examines the relation between Tocqueville's complicated inner life, his self-imagination, and his moral thought, and the meaning of his enduring writings, leading to a new understanding of Tocqueville's view of democratic culture and democratic politics. With particular emphasis on Tocqueville's prescient anticipation of various threats to liberty, social unity, and truly democratic politics in America posed by aspects of democratic culture, the book underscores the continuing pertinence of Tocqueville's thought in our own changing world of the twenty-first century.
Keywords:
inner life,
Alexis de Tocqueville,
Democracy in America,
self-imagination,
moral thought,
democratic politics,
liberty,
social unity,
democratic culture
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780300119312 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 |
DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300119312.001.0001 |
