1st Edition
Tocqueville's Political and Moral Thought New Liberalism
By M.R.R Ossewaarden
Copyright 2004
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 2004. The nineteenth-century French statesman and political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville described himself as a ‘liberal of a new kind’. This book is a significant contribution to a better understanding of liberalism and of the distinctive character of Tocqueville’s liberalism in particular. The main focus of the book is the nature of Tocqueville’s liberalism. The author argues... Read more
Foreword, Introduction, 1. New liberalism, 2. The new science of politics, 3. Liberties, 4. Democracy and history, 5. Progress, Bibliography, Index
Biography
M.R.R. Ossewaarde is lecturer in sociology at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. His research interests include the sociology of morality, politics and law.
