The Fragility of Freedom
Subtitle: Tocqueville on Religion, Democracy, and the American Future
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 15, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226532097
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Political science & theory; Political structures: democracy; Western philosophy; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; History & Theory - General; Political; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Political Science / History & Theory
First sentence: The Delphic injunction, "Know thyself," seems nowhere to have been more happily violated than in the American context.