Alexis de Tocqueville / Alan S. Kahan.

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Kahan, Alan S

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781441176998
1441176993
1283207214
9781283207218
9781501301322
1501301322
9781441173270
1441173277

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Alexis de Tocqueville.DDC classification:

320.092 22

LOC classification:

JC229.T8 K34 2010eb

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Contents:

The essential Tocqueville -- Democracy and freedom in America -- Democracy and freedom in France -- Democracy and freedom elsewhere -- Democracy, freedom, and poverty -- Tocqueville, the neo-liberal -- Tocqueville and his readers -- Tocqueville today.

Summary: "Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-146) and index.

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"Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker."--Bloomsbury Publishing

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