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Tocqueville's Road Map

Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism

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Tocqueville's Road Map

Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism

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One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought: the methodology that Tocqueville brought to his historical and political writings allowing him to predict so well; his assumptions about what constitutes a revolution; his conviction that democracy and commerce at times work against each other; why Tocqueville's thought defies our modern political classifications; his fear of a qualitatively new kind of despotism; and Tocqueville's predictions for the future compared to those of Nietzsche, Arendt, and others. Tocqueville's Road Map is a long overdue addition to Tocqueville scholarship that will find an audience amongst scholars of political thought and history.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Why Could Tocqueville Predict So Well?
Chapter 2 The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville
Chapter 3 Tocqueville: The Tension Between Commerce and Citizenship
Chapter 4 Why Did Tocqueville Think a Successful Revolution Was Impossible?
Chapter 5 The Dark Side of Tocqueville: On War and Empire
Chapter 6 Hedonism and Nihilism: The Predictions of Tocqueville and Nietzsche
Chapter 7 The Prison: Tocqueville's Model of Despotism
Chapter 8 Tocqueville and Arendt on the Novelty of Modern Tyranny
Chapter 9 Le Commerce: A Newspaper Expressing Tocqueville's Unusual Liberalism

Product details

Published Dec 24 2007
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 232
ISBN 9780739116661
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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