Tocqueville's road map : methodology, liberalism, revolution, and despotism /
Boesche, Roger.
Lanham : Lexington Books,
c2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why could Tocqueville predict so well? -- The strange liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville -- Tocqueville on the tension between commerce and citizenship -- Why did Tocqueville think a successful revolution was impossible? -- The dark side of Tocqueville: on war and empire -- Hedonism and nihilism: the predictions of Tocqueville and Nietzsche -- The prison: Tocqueville's model for despotism -- Tocqueville and Arendt on the novelty of modern tyranny -- Le commerce: a newspaper expressing Tocqueville's unusual liberalism.
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859
Tocqueville, Alexis de, 1805-1859.
Liberalism.
Despotism.