Tocqueville Between Two Worlds
Subtitle: The Making of a Political and Theoretical Life
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: September 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 680
ISBN-13: 9780691074368
Subjects: Politics / Current Events; Political; General; Philosophy; Tocqueville, Alexis de,; Politics - Current Events; History & Theory - General; American history; Europe; European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland); Political science & theory; USA; Contributions in political sci; 1805-1859; Contributions in democracy
First sentence: Tocqueville singled out "powerlessness" as the striking characteristics of the politics of the times.
Description: "Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects to Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents sweeping new interpretations of Tocqueville's major works and of his place in intellectual history.

As he traces the origins and impact of Tocqueville's ideas, Wolin also offers a profound commentary on the general trajectory of Western political life over the past two hundred years."--BOOK JACKET.