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6. Politics: Order and Disorder in the New Republic

From the book Tocqueville and His America

  • Arthur Kaledin
https://doi.org/10.12987/9780300176209-034
© Yale University Press, New Haven
From the book
Tocqueville and His America
Tocqueville and His America

Chapters in this book (44)

Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Brief Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
Part I. TRIPLE-ALIENATED MAN
1. Identity in a Time of Historical Transition
2. Class: Between Two Worlds
3. Intimacy
4. Ambition
5. Melancholy
6. Skeptical Romantic
7. Skeptical Philosophe
8. Skepticism and Religion: “Une Ombre Vaine”
9. Doubt and the Will to Believe
10. Exile: Voiceless in Cannes
Part II. THE CALLING OF POLITICS
1. Vocation: Politics as Calling—Tocqueville’s “Beau Rêve”
2. Vocation: The Responsibilities of Political Leaders
3. The Dead Sea of Politics
4. Tocqueville’s Aristocratic Liberalism
Part III. WRITING DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA
1. A Moral Landscape
2. A Moral History
3. Escape
4. The New World: Fable, Romance, History
5. Tocqueville in the Wilderness
6. Transformations
7. Beginning Democracy in America
8. Influences: Voices in the Tower
9. Writing as Moral Act
10. History as Moral Drama
11. The Birth of a Book
Part IV. TOCQUEVILLE’S AMERICA
1. Tocqueville’s American Notebooks and Democracy in America
2. Traveling Through the New Republic with Tocqueville and Beaumont
3. Democratic Religion: Mad Messiahs and Chaste Women
4. Class in an Egalitarian Society
5. Born-Again America: The Creation of an American Identity
6. Politics: Order and Disorder in the New Republic
7. A Dark Vision of Democracy’s Prospects
8. The Democratic Psyche and the Hazards of Equality
9. A Culture of Extremes: The Prospects for Freedom in a Culture Without Limits
Conclusion
A Brief Chronological Narrative of the Life of Alexis de Tocqueville
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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