Interpreting Tocqueville's Democracy in America

by Masugi, Ken

• ISBN13: 9780847677115
• ISBN10: 0847677117
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-10-07
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Table of Contents

Introduction
Contributors
Tocqueville and Political Thought
Two Ways of Conceiving the Republic	p. 3
In Search of the "New Science of Politics"	p. 27
A Liberal of a New Kind	p. 63
Democracy and Pantheism	p. 96
Political Sociology Versus Speculative Philosophy	p. 121
Tocqueville and Politics
Misunderstanding the American Founding	p. 155
Jefferson and Tocqueville	p. 178
Modern Commerce	p. 204
The Illiberal Tocqueville	p. 239
Centralized Administration and the "New Despotism"	p. 255
Political Science, Political Culture, and the Role of the Intellectual	p. 287
Tocqueville and Mores
The Quest for the Self: Individualism, Morality, Politics	p. 329
The Uses and Hazards of Christianity in Tocqueville's Attempt to Save Democratic Souls	p. 348
Rights: A Point of Honor	p. 394
On the Central Doctrine of Democracy in America	p. 425
Racial Equality in America	p. 462
Women's Liberation: The Relevance of Tocqueville	p. 480
An Asian Perspective	p. 495
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