Alexis de Tocqueville
By: Alan S. Kahan.
Series: Major conservative and libertarian thinkers -- v. 7
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9780826483133
Subjects: Tocqueville, Alexis de, -- 1805-1859; Democracy; United States -- Politics and government -- Philosophy
Description: "Alexis de Tocqueville was the author of two masterpieces, Democracry in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. In this volume, Alan S. Kahan, one of the world's leading authorities on Tocqueville's work, presents an accessible and rigorous account of the French author's ideas set in the context of his life and times. It sets out the essential tensions and ambiguities in Tocqueville's thought and analyzes the idea that made him such a compelling and insightful thinker."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The essential Tocqueville; title: Democracy and freedom in America; title: Democracy and freedom in France; title: Democracy and freedom elsewhere; title: Democracy, freedom, and poverty; title: Tocqueville, the neo-liberal; title: Tocqueville and his readers; title: Tocqueville today.