Tocqueville's virus
Subtitle: utopia and dystopia in Western social thought
By: Mark Featherstone.
Series: Routledge advances in sociology -- 28
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780415339612
Subjects: Utopias; Dystopias; United States -- Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Tocqueville's virus; title: Ancients and moderns; title: Freedom and tyranny in Socrates and Plato; title: Friends, enemies, and the cosmology of power politics; title: The mechanisation of society and the pathologies of the self; title: The madness of modernity; title: Modernity and schizophrenia; title: Autism, paranoia, critique; title: Totalitarianism; title: Arendt's theory of totalitarianism; title: Arendt's paranoia critique of modernity; title: Conclusion: America, nation of the edge; title: Bibliography.