2nd Edition

Tocqueville and American Civilization

Edited By Samuel E. Wallace Copyright 1994
125 Pages
by Routledge

125 Pages
by Routledge

126 Pages
by Routledge

Not long after Max Lerner completed his comprehensive and influential study, America as a Civilization. he began work on a sustained analysis and assessment of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. The result, Tocqueville and American Civilization. ls a primer of Tocqueville's central concepts, as well as a detailed discussion of their meaning in the twentieth century. Originally... Read more
1. Some Paradoxes 2. The Making of a Social Thinker 3. The Making of a Book 4. Master Ideas, Structure, Style 5. The Polity: Power, Law, and the Elite 6. Freedom in a Mass Society 7. Culture, Personality, and the Good Life 8. Last Years: Politics, History, and Belief

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