Roger Boesche

Tocqueville's Road Map

Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism

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Produktbeschreibung

One of the country's foremost Tocqueville scholars, Roger Boesche has gathered together his writings on Tocqueville from the last quarter century. These essays focus on various specific aspects of Tocqueville's political thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 535g
• ISBN-13: 9780739116654
• ISBN-10: 0739116657
• Artikelnr.: 22104238

Autorenporträt

Roger Boesche is professor of politics and Arthur G. Coons Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is the editor of Alexis de Tocqueville: Selected Letters on Politics and Society and author of The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Why Could Tocqueville Predict So Well? Chapter 2 The Strange
Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville Chapter 3 Tocqueville: The Tension
Between Commerce and Citizenship Chapter 4 Why Did Tocqueville Think a
Successful Revolution Was Impossible? Chapter 5 The Dark Side of
Tocqueville: On War and Empire Chapter 6 Hedonism and Nihilism: The
Predictions of Tocqueville and Nietzsche Chapter 7 The Prison:
Tocqueville's Model of Despotism Chapter 8 Tocqueville and Arendt on the
Novelty of Modern Tyranny Chapter 9 Le Commerce: A Newspaper Expressing
Tocqueville's Unusual Liberalism