The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville

Roger Boesche

Published by Cornell University Press 1987

The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville

Roger Boesche

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501745515

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The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville places Tocqueville's political though in the context of his time and place, and shows why his ideas defy easy classification. Responding to the twentieth-century tendency to impose anachronistic political categories on Tocqueville, Roger Boesche reminds us that like Stendhal, Balzac, Hugo, Lamartine, Flaubert, and other writers of his generation, he was a nineteenth-century Frenchman reacting to contemporary French concerns, aspirations, and anxieties.

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Roger Boesche is Associate Professor of Political Science at Occidental College.

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Joseph T. Schleifer, Department of History, College of New Rochelle:

Roger Boesche's book offers a strikingly fresh way of looking at Tocqueville and fills a serious gap in American Tocqueville scholarship. It is a fascinating and full-blown interpretation of the French scene during the first half of the nineteenth century.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
PART ONE. Tocqueville and His Generation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
PART TWO. Freedom: Tocqueville's Hope Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
PART THREE. Despotism: Tocqueville's Fear Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 288
Keywords: Political Science & Political History; Biography & Autobiography

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Published: May 15, 2019
ISBN: 9781501745515