Tocqueville between two worlds : the making of a political and theoretical life /
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2001
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Table of Contents:
- 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