LEADER 05849nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910777924403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-08750-9 010 $a9786612087509 010 $a1-4008-2479-6 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824793 035 $a(CKB)1000000000773407 035 $a(EBL)445576 035 $a(OCoLC)519480177 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001483054 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12542363 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001483054 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11425119 035 $a(PQKB)10669452 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000343738 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11264984 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000343738 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10291788 035 $a(PQKB)11318311 035 $a(OCoLC)860274729 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36153 035 $a(DE-B1597)446229 035 $a(OCoLC)979725355 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824793 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL445576 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10284222 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208750 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC445576 035 $a(PPN)187308705 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000773407 100 $a20021019d2003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTocqueville between two worlds$b[electronic resource] $ethe making of a political and theoretical life /$fSheldon S. Wolin 205 $aCore Textbook 210 $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d[2003] 215 $a1 online resource (659 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2001. 311 $a0-691-07436-4 311 $a0-691-11454-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tPART ONE. The Abundance of Power -- $tChapter I: Modern Theory and Modern Power -- $tChapter II: Theoria: The Theoretical Journey -- $tPART TWO. Encountering the Amazing -- $tChapter III: Discovering Democracy -- $tChapter IV: Self and Structure -- $tChapter V: Doubt and Disconnection -- $tChapter VI: " . . . the theory of what is great" -- $tChapter VII: Myth and Political Impressionism -- $tChapter VIII: The Spectacle of America -- $tPART THREE. The Theoretical Encapsulation of America -- $tChapter IX: Social Contract versus Political Culture -- $tChapter X: The Culture of the Political: "the rituals of practice" -- $tChapter XI: Feudal America -- $tChapter XII: Majority Rule or Majority Politics -- $tChapter XIII: Centralization and Dissolution -- $tChapter XIV: The Image of Democracy -- $tPART FOUR. Persona and the Politics of Theory -- $tChapter XV: Tragic Hero, Popular Mask -- $tChapter XVI: The Democratization of Culture -- $tChapter XVII: Despotism and Utopia -- $tChapter XVIII: Old New World, New Old World -- $tChapter XIX: Tocquevillean Democracy -- $tChapter XX: The Penitentiary Temptation -- $tPART FIVE. Second Journey to America -- $tChapter XXI: The Political Education of the Bourgeoisie -- $tChapter XXII: Souvenirs: Recollections In/Tranquillity -- $tChapter XXIII: Souvenirs: Socialism and the Crisis of the Political -- $tChapter XXIV: The Old Regime and the Revolution: Mythistoricus et theoreticus -- $tChapter XXV: The Old Regime: Modernization and the Politics of Loss -- $tChapter XXVI: Postdemocracy -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aAlexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents sweeping new interpretations of Tocqueville's major works and of his place in intellectual history. As he traces the origins and impact of Tocqueville's ideas, Wolin also offers a profound commentary on the general trajectory of Western political life over the past two hundred years. Wolin proceeds by examining Tocqueville's key writings in light of his experiences in the troubled world of French politics. He portrays Democracy in America, for example, as a theory of discovery that emerged from Tocqueville's contrasting experiences of America and of France's constitutional monarchy. He shows us how Tocqueville used Recollections to reexamine his political commitments in light of the revolutions of 1848 and the threat of socialism. He portrays The Old Regime and the French Revolution as a work of theoretical history designed to throw light on the Bonapartist despotism he saw around him. Throughout, Wolin highlights the tensions between Tocqueville's ideas and his activities as a politician, arguing that--despite his limited political success--Tocqueville was ''perhaps the last influential theorist who can be said to have truly cared about political life.'' In the course of the book, Wolin also shows that Tocqueville struggled with many of the forces that constrain politics today, including the relentless advance of capitalism, of science and technology, and of state bureaucracy. He concludes that Tocqueville's insights and anxieties about the impotence of politics in a ''postaristocratic'' era speak directly to the challenges of our own ''postdemocratic'' age. A monumental new study of Tocqueville, this is also a rich and provocative work about the past, the present, and the future of democratic life in America and abroad. 606 $aState, The 615 0$aState, The. 676 $a320.092 700 $aWolin$b Sheldon S$051318 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910777924403321 996 $aTocqueville between two worlds$91218774 997 $aUNINA