LEADER 04724nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910786300203321 005 20211029171945.0 010 $a1-299-05134-0 010 $a1-4008-4672-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400846726 035 $a(CKB)2670000000330260 035 $a(EBL)1105281 035 $a(OCoLC)827344583 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000820521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11974561 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000820521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10862774 035 $a(PQKB)11139619 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1105281 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001059491 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43395 035 $a(DE-B1597)453881 035 $a(OCoLC)979835651 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400846726 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1105281 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10652017 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL436384 035 $a(PPN)265129664 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000330260 100 $a20120820d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTocqueville$b[electronic resource] $ethe aristocratic sources of liberty /$fLucien Jaume ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton $cPrinceton University Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (358 p.) 300 $aTranslation of: Tocqueville : les sources aristocratiques de la liberte? biographie intellectuelle. Paris : Fayard, c2008. 311 $a0-691-15204-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhat did Tocqueville mean by "democracy"? -- Attacking the French tradition : popular sovereignty redefined in and through local liberties -- Democracy as modern religion -- Democracy as expectation of material pleasures -- Tocqueville as sociologist -- In the tradition of Montesquieu : the state-society analogy -- Counterrevolutionary traditionalism : a muffled polemic -- The discovery of the collective -- Tocqueville and the Protestantism of his time: the insistent reality of the collective -- Tocqueville as moralist -- The moralist and the question of l'honnte -- Tocqueville's relation to Jansenism -- Tocqueville in literature: democratic language without declared authority -- Resisting the democratic tendencies of language -- Tocqueville in the debate about literature and society -- The great contemporaries : models and countermodels -- Tocqueville and Guizot : two conceptions of authority -- Tutelary figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand. 330 $aMany American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat--as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book, written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly concerned with France. "America," Jaume says, "was merely a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of France." For Tocqueville, in short, America was a mirror for France, a way for Tocqueville to write indirectly about his own society, to engage French thinkers and debates, and to come to terms with France's aristocratic legacy. By taking seriously the idea that Tocqueville's French context is essential for understanding Democracy in America, Jaume provides a powerful and surprising new interpretation of Tocqueville's book as well as a fresh intellectual and psychological portrait of the author. Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in postrevolutionary France, Jaume shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted--and who believed that it would be necessary to preserve aristocratic values in order to protect liberty under democracy. Indeed, Jaume argues that one of Tocqueville's most important and original ideas was to recognize that democracy posed the threat of a new and hidden form of despotism. 606 $aHistorians$zFrance$vBiography 606 $aDemocracy$xPhilosophy 606 $aPolitical science$zFrance$xHistory$y19th century 615 0$aHistorians 615 0$aDemocracy$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aPolitical science$xHistory 676 $a320.092 700 $aJaume$b Lucien$0250498 701 $aGoldhammer$b Arthur$0299627 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786300203321 996 $aTocqueville$93787289 997 $aUNINA