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9780739133743

More Than Kings and Less Than Men Tocqueville on the Promise and Perils of Democratic Individualism

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    9780739133743

  • ISBN10:

    0739133748

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-01-25
  • Publisher: Lexington Books

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Summary

More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promise and Perils of Democratic Individualism examines Alexis de Tocqueville's hopes and fears for modern democracy, arguing that the distinctive political philosophy informing Democracy in America can help us to think more profoundly about the problems facing liberal democratic society today. L. Joseph Hebert Jr. argues that Tocqueville saw the historical power of democracy as originating in its promise to liberate human nature, and the greatness it is capable of achieving, from the artificial constraints of conventional hierarchy. He probes Tocqueville fear that the momentum of democratic change may violate that promise by neglecting or even stifling human greatness in the name of an artificial equality of conditions. Hebert explains why Tocqueville saw the need for a "new political science" to regulate democracy, and why Tocqueville thought that the central task of this science, supported by enlightened statesmanship, was to combat "individualism," an extreme form of civic, moral, and intellectual apathy capable of ushering in a historically unprecedented form of despotism.

Author Biography

L. Joseph Hebert Jr. is associate professor of political science at St. Ambrose University and specializes in civil, common, and constitutional law.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introduction: Why Tocqueville? Why Individualism?p. 1
More than Kings: The Rise of Democratic Individualism
Democracy, Political Science, and Human Naturep. 15
Liberty, Rights, and Justice in the New Worldp. 39
Majority Tyranny, Administrative Despotism, and the Triumph of Individualismp. 73
Less than Men? Combating Individualism in Jacksonian America and Beyond
Citizenship: Democracy vs. Self-Government?p. 101
Religion: Separation, or Political Institution?p. 131
Democratic Statesmanship Then and Nowp. 159
Conclusion: Liberty and the Recovery of Human Greatnessp. 191
Referencesp. 197
Indexp. 205
About the Authorp. 213
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