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Introduction

From the book Tocqueville

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400846726-001
From the book
Tocqueville
Tocqueville

Chapters in this book (25)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Part One. What Did Tocqueville Mean by “Democracy”?
Introduction
1. Attacking the French Tradition: Popular Sovereignty Redefined in and through Local Liberties
2. Democracy as Modern Religion
3. Democracy as Expectation of Material Pleasures
Part Two. Tocqueville as Sociologist
Introduction
4. In the Tradition of Montesquieu: The State-Society Analogy
5. Counterrevolutionary Traditionalism: A Muffled Polemic
6. The Discovery of the Collective
7. Tocqueville and the Protestantism of His Time: The Insistent Reality of the Collective
Part Three. Tocqueville as Moralist
Introduction
8. The Moralist and the Question of l’Honnête
9. Tocqueville’s Relation to Jansenism
Part Four. Tocqueville in Literature: Democratic Language without Declared Authority
Introduction
10. Resisting the Democratic Tendencies of Language
11. Tocqueville in the Debate about Literature and Society
Part Five. The Great Contemporaries: Models and Countermodels
12. Tocqueville and Guizot: Two Conceptions of Authority
13. Tutelary Figures from Malesherbes to Chateaubriand
Conclusion
Appendix 1. The Use of Anthologies and Summaries in Tocqueville’s Time
Appendix 2. Silvestre de Sacy, Review of Democracy in America
Appendix 3. Letter from Alexis de Tocqueville to Silvestre de Sacy
Index
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